"20mm Cannon" Topic

I've finally gotten my greedy hands on Térana catalog sheets (even with the kind assistance of a French friend it wasn't easy), and am going to place an order for 20mm flats – WSS era troops and very nice by the look of the drawings.

One thing though, plenty of gunners but no guns. Can anyone advise me as to a good source of 20mm artillery pieces ? Preferably metal. Obviously, I don't think I can get them as flats and anything 3D from the TYW to 7YW periods should also suffice.

Steve

Call to Arms produces a plastic 1/72 scale ECW artillery piece with a crew. Not metal though, and comes with a crew, but pretty nice piece – I have one somewhere painted up with the crew.

Griefbringer

It's surprising that the company doesn't have 'flat' cannons as part of their artillery dioramas. Ioannis recently posted pictures of his newly-painted SYW Prussian horse artillery flats that included the gun, for example. (I'm assuming you know about Ioannis's wargames.etc web site.)

But to answer your query, I don't know if they're still in business, but the American "Complete Brigadier" company makes (fully round) 20mm or 1/72 or HO-scale figures and equipment. They're probably listed on TMP's Manufacturers page.

Outland Games in the US has 18th Century 20mm artillery pieces. You could also stretch a bit and use RSM 20mm Napoleonic guns too.

GFI casts those 20mm cannon now.

These guys sell flats, maybe they can help?

zinnfigur.com

Thanks for the suggestions, guys. Looks like either A Call to Arms or Outland will work. 4 guns to a box with the ACTA, one box should do it to start out. Hobby Bunker has them, maybe I'll go with the plastic.

Steve

Its kind of interesting how many flats collectors use 3-dimensional artillery pieces instead of flat artillery. I seem to recall seeing such a thing at one of the museums in Germany, although I can't recall which one.