Howitzers and Elephants

[carlos marighela]

Made my own 3.7" How. Easy enough with plasticard tuding and putty.

4.5 " How in 1/64 available from RLPBS. Many of their Great War era offerings, cars tanks etc are 1/72 but this one is 1/64

[Ignatieff]

Carlos - cool!

'RLPBS'?

[Hammers]

Carlos - cool!

'RLPBS'?

Real Life Public Broadcasting Service

[Will Bailie]

RLPBS is a painting service that also distributes miniatures.

The Reverisco/Tin Soldier website is not particularly intuitive to navigate (at least not for me),but hopefully you'll find the 4.5" gun on this page:
http://www.tin-soldier.com/cgi-bin/ustorekeeper.pl

[chicklewis]

Gotta typo, I think, friends.

Actually it is RLBPS

'R. L. Bowling Painting Service', or similar

http://www.rlbps.com/

I've ordered figs and resin from them a few times, and generally been satisfied. 

Fun to shop their stand at Historicon.

Chick

[Ignatieff]

Glad to be of help.

Has any one ordered BH from the states to the UK? Any problems recieving the orders?

Just received the guns from BH USA.  Les than a week from order to delivery - superb!

[Brigadier Linn]

By the way old Bean, I have a couple of Krupp 75mm breech loaders which I can easily bring down

Brigadier Linn

[Bullshott]

Both the paint job and the photo leave a bit to be desired, but here is the Battle Honours Indian Mountain Gun.  As you can see, I used the wheels with tyres, but it also comes with spoked wheels.  Hope this helps your decision making process!

Thank you WB - it does, that works for me!  I think I'll use the trails and barrel off the BH version and use the shield and wheels off the Brigade one.  Hopefully the scales will be compatible!

I'm doing a similar project for my RCW British intervention troops. I'm using two BH guns - one assembled as deployed firing and one with closed trail to be towed by mules using a draught harness (less mules  to get in the way on the tabletop and also quicker to deploy the gun  ). To get the right look for the gunshields I've extended them using plasticard and a bit of greenstuff. These are now sitting on my projects bench while the greenstuff cures. I think these will work fine. Crew will be HLBS Great White North 18pdr crew. Watch this space for the completed guns ....

[Bullshott]

Remember also that the unpopular gunshield for the 3.7" howitzer could be left-off. I have a couple of books containing pictures of British gunners manning one of these without the shield. This would allow you to use the BH guns without their shields, thus saving you from having to destroy a Brigade gun.

[Ignatieff]

Good advice all...and yes Prof. Linn, bring down whatever mountain pieces you can get your hands on!

Thanks!

[Bullshott]

This is my of the Battle Honours 3.7" mountain howitzer:



The gnshield has been extended with placticard. The crew are from the recently discontinued HLBS Great White North range.

Mule team with towed gun to follow in the near future ....