GNW Swedish artillery

I ordered this Zvezda set from an Italian ebay store. It has lots of horses, guns and crew, and plenty of options for conversion.

Limbers

These are a pair of French and Austrian limbers, with Zvezda figures and nags - the Austrian carriages are scratchbuilt, with sculpey wheels.

40mm Mountain Guns for the Jazygian Border Guards

These small guns are very mobile and can be operated by one person. As most of Jazygia's borders are steep hills, this sort of equipment is necessary for the 5th Infantry Class and 6th (Székely) Border Guards, who are looking for Mordavian incursion to the Jazygian Basin.

They are, I think, suitable for 15mm gaming as larger artillery pieces (howitzers). 

The gun barrels and pistons are made of matchstick, the receivers of balsa wood: the mantlet is cardboard, the carriage is matchstick and the wheels are again from Risk gaming pieces.

A Call to Arms ECW Artillery repainted

Previous paintwork here

The trouble was not with the paint but the Revell acrylic varnish. Never again. Sadly for me all acrylic varnishes worth no more than gluing sand and flocking on to bases.

But here they are again, sixteen figures and four guns. They could take two sides for example if the fight was between the Swedes and Poles.

Buff and brown colors are dominant with some green and blue at places. I used Sepia wash on all the figures, it gives a higher contrast but my Umber is running low.

A Call to Arms ECW Artillery

Good news is I finished this set - the guns and figures are based. The acrylic varnish holding static grass still hasn't dried at places but I had to take some photos because the battery recharger still hasn't been found - these are the bad news. I could take only two photos before the batteries failed.

I used some Vallejo inks on the figures - while the finish is still too glossy (and I am not happy about it - maybe it's the varnish after all and not the black paint ingredient) they look proper at least. I'm still unsure about using washes but these ones (namely Sepia and Umber shades) work well and ease the process a lot.

Finished - Jackewlinese yellow/blue artillery crew

The only problem is... I ran out of coins for bases, so these are cardboard circles cut out with a knife. When mounted on the base of the gun it's not that horrible though.

Yellow first, three per gun, 15 in total.

Upgrading the artillery park

These guns come from the Zvezda GNW Russian artillery set. Painted and based, waiting for their crew.

Macro of the 6pdr and the howitzer.

Jackewline Royal army artillery limber

I've got these spare horses with the Italeri French artillery set so now put them onto one base and tied them together.

Simply connect the bases of the gun and limber and off it goes.

Finished units - Green clans artillery

Well there we are, finally both warfaring sides have their guns set.

Both guns' barrels can be changed. It's a light field cannon on this one (made of scratch and wheels of the Italeri French artillery's limber)

Macro of the howitzer. 

This battery will take part of my winter campaign attached to Col. Maquirech's foot regiment. Keep following the separate page; the Dorroseani march on, and the fight continues!

WIP - Dorroseani Militiaman Artillery

The guns are from Italeri's French Artillery, figures from Airfix WW2 British and Japs slightly modified (cut off the minesweeper's plate to make them ramrods and bent the grenade-throwing figure's right arm and leg)

4 figs per cannon - the gun's base is thick cardboard with sand and varnish - since then I've started to color it. I've already painted a bunch of this two old sets I had for years as Dorroseani light infantry, now that there are going to be both Chasseurs and Voltigeurs (need to find a better name eh) there's not much need for them and so they're going to be "demoted" to militia which is used as a "counterweight" in battles.