| greatwhitezulu | 27 Dec 2010 7:08 p.m. PST |
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Mal Wright  | 27 Dec 2010 7:38 p.m. PST |
Lots and lots of good information on that site. |
 John the OFM  | 27 Dec 2010 7:40 p.m. PST |
Impressive! I love elephant armies. "Try Irregular miniatures if you want more. They have a Seljuk armored elephant in 25mm" he said helpfully.
It has no howdah, and the crew are riding astride. I think you may find them handy. |
| Goldwyrm | 27 Dec 2010 7:49 p.m. PST |
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| NBATemplate | 27 Dec 2010 7:54 p.m. PST |
As Mal Wright says, lots of good (and varied and interesting) information on your blog! And the elephants are very fine. :-) Cheers, David
nba-sywtemplates.blogspot.com |
| Ashokmarine | 27 Dec 2010 8:37 p.m. PST |
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| 21eRegt | 27 Dec 2010 9:16 p.m. PST |
Sweet! Congrats on a wonderful collection. |
| Grand Duke Natokina | 27 Dec 2010 10:26 p.m. PST |
I keep forgetting that there were 2 French and Indian Wars.
They look good. How would you stop them? Pit traps? Direct fire artillery?
Weaselhoffen. |
| andygamer | 27 Dec 2010 11:00 p.m. PST |
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 timurilank | 28 Dec 2010 3:09 a.m. PST |
Nice colour combinations for the towers/howdahs and coverings. Beautiful work. Cheers, |
| Chokidar | 28 Dec 2010 3:37 a.m. PST |
Always phenomenally inspiring…"Chapeau bas, Mon Seigneur!" as one of Dupleix's minions may well have said. I wish I knew where it was, but somewhere I have a photograph or photographs supplied many "chandas" ago by a charming officer in the historical department of the Indian artillery, showing an organ gun that was used at Buxar in 1763… It is a block of one hundred musket barrels mounted in five rows, with a stubby 6 pounder cannon on each side…the whole thing on a fairly normal wheeled carriage – I just have a doubt in my mind if it was a single or a split trail. Apparently it was used to devastating effect – although history does not record if that effect was on the enemy or the crew… mind, if the damned thing is still in one piece… That is the sort of thing you might like to scratch for this incredible collection of yours. I have always intended to try, but as the nautch said, never got around to it.
If it was not for the distance and the lack of contact one might be forgiven for thinking that there was an informal competition going on in the Eighteenth Century between India and Russia as to who could come up with the most implausible, wierd and wonderful ideas for artillery. For sources on Indian military history have you tried looking at Vedam's online catalogue? I just suggest you wrap your credit card up in several layers of vacuum wrap plastic first so you cannot get at it. Quality varies of course, but prices are very reasonable and there is a …load of stuff there. They are also 100 percent reliable. Shabash Huzoor. |
| greatwhitezulu | 28 Dec 2010 4:41 a.m. PST |
Thanks guys! @ John OFM – I have had a look at the Irregular site a couple of times in the past, but have never seen it listed. The pictures I have seen in old magazines have certainly tempted me! @ Chokidar – Thanks! I have been tempted by an organ gun, but have never found a good description. And Vedams – aren't they great! On your recommendation I am awaiting the 12 volume set of Pillai. It had better be good :) I have ordered quite a few books from them over the years and never a problem. |
| Chokidar | 28 Dec 2010 7:16 a.m. PST |
Oooooops! At least I can hope that it may take you so long to wade through it that I can paddle my way up the Irrawady to Chittagong before you get fired up enough to come and throttle me! Well I enjoyed it… and I'm delighted to know that the good Ananda's fame is growing and lives on… Apparently one of the reasons why this work did not fade into terminal academic obscurity is that the abridged version was used to teach the language to military and government officials serving in India. Rather strange that the Brits chose a book that was written by someone who served Johnny Frog.. Have you ever seen that huge eighteenth century gun that you could fit a horse under the carriage? – the only problem with having one of those (except that you need a three day game to allow it to be reloaded once!) is that it just looks stupid… as if you are so thick you have added a 54mm artillery piece to your 28mm army à la HG Wells… I always have this mental image of the hapless Bobaji shaking his head from side to side as the bewhiskered Binky Nabob roars something like "what do you mean, a misfire!!!!" |
| Grand Duke Natokina | 28 Dec 2010 11:13 a.m. PST |
Bad, Andy! But funny.
Weaselhoffen. |
| spontoon | 28 Dec 2010 12:45 p.m. PST |
Andy gamer you should be punished for that one! Where's my maid costume and whip! |
| andygamer | 28 Dec 2010 9:08 p.m. PST |
Lucky I didn't mention the pith helmet method. |
| greatwhitezulu | 28 Dec 2010 11:53 p.m. PST |
Chokidar, Vedams delivered today : ) |
| Chokidar | 29 Dec 2010 3:16 a.m. PST |
Paddling Burra Sahib, Paddling!!!! |
| greatwhitezulu | 29 Dec 2010 3:38 a.m. PST |
I did forget to say, Chokidar, that you are correct about Pillai – well worth every cent from my cursory look! Don't paddle away! I posted up a picture of the unopened linen wrapping on my blog. It was quite sad to have to open it! And remiss of me not to address the issue of the gun – I have seen a picture – and apparently it was never fired. Probably a good reason for that : ) gwz |
