Saturday 29 September 2018

Allied Artillery

The Duke of Wellington and Lord Hill have been out inspecting the Allied gun line.


The two new Royal Field Artillery batteries are made up of:

2 x BN.140 Officer pointing, holding map
1 x BN.141 Gunner with porte-fire
1 x BN.142 Gunner ramming home
1 x BN.143 Gunner holding cannonball
2 x BN.144 Gunner holding hand spike for traversing
1 x BN.145 Gunner – ammunition carrier, running


This is now a substantial weight of artillery to deter any attack by the French.

20 comments:

'Lee. said...

Simply beautiful! That's a power to be reckoned with.

Stryker said...

Thanks Lee, the allied artillery has been underwhelming for some time so I think I've put this straight!

lewisgunner said...

oh My, a grand battery. You'll have the South Essx making a column attack next!


Stryker said...

Roy, now that's a very good idea!

Wellington Man said...

I think you're going to need bigger battalions after all, Ian. They look extremely intimidating all lined up like that. Lovely brushwork.

Stryker said...

WM - they won't be quite so powerful when diluted along a proper battle line. I'm pleased with them though as I thought I would never get enough figures!

Ross Mac rmacfa@gmail.com said...

A Grand battery one might say.

Stryker said...

Cheers Ross!

Rob said...

Thank you for showing off the Allied gun line - it looks really scary but not having played M&M I not sure if it’s quite the meat grinder it appears to be... Really nice paint jobs but (excuse my OCD) are you going to retouch the RHA bases as they do stand out as different from the rest?

Stryker said...

Thanks Rob, the difference in the shade of green on the bases shows the progressive fall off in quality with Humbrol paints over the last few years. They have all been painted with Matt 80 but the older paint gave a much nicer finish and colour. It would be quite an epic job to repaint all the old bases!

The Archduke said...

To Rob, as one who has had the privilege of playing an M &M game, trust me, it is the meat grinder it appears to be. They look, and undoubtedly are, superb, Ian.

Stryker said...

Thanks Nigel, we'll have to see how they get on in their first battle!

Anonymous said...

Great looking battery, should give the French a hard pounding.

Paul

Stryker said...

Yes Paul, it's given the infantry a lot of confidence!

Matt said...

Lovely. All you need now is a lovely rocket battery to take the whole lot out!

Mark Dudley said...

They look good massed together.

On the subject of Humbrol I rememver there was also a grass green in the Humbrol Authentic range and that was a very nice shade of green.

Stryker said...

Matt - sadly (or maybe just as well) Hinton Hunt never made a rocket set, although I had thought about scratch building one...

Stryker said...

Mark - it's very annoying how both the shade of green and the finish has changed over the last few years. The thing that get me most is that a paint advertised as matt should not be drying as blotchy satin!

Aly Morrison said...

A splendid looking gun line sir...

All the best. Aly

Stryker said...

Cheers Aly!