"Minden French Crew/Fife & Drum Cannon" Topic
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 Der Alte Fritz  | 02 Jun 2013 6:02 p.m. PST |
Here is a picture of the Minden Miniature French artillery crew manning a Fife & Drum French Valliere 4-pounder:
Since both figure ranges are sculpted by Richard Ansell, the artillery equipment is to scale with both ranges. |
| Der Alte Fritz | 02 Jun 2013 6:03 p.m. PST |
I think that I see a new SYW French army in my future. These Minden crew figures look aces! |
 John the OFM | 02 Jun 2013 6:22 p.m. PST |
Them's pretty big 4 pdrs!
Which is of course why they changed designs… |
| Der Alte Fritz | 02 Jun 2013 6:58 p.m. PST |
A number of these cannon were rebored in America and used as 6- pounders. I recall that in the respective wights and measures, the French pound was larger/heavier than the English pound . |
| (Stolen Name) | 02 Jun 2013 7:02 p.m. PST |
Nice lloking crew – I too thought there was a scale mistmatch until I google the real gun – it was one big carriage 4 pdr
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| Der Alte Fritz | 02 Jun 2013 7:54 p.m. PST |
Yes, we used the schematic drawings created by Christian Rogge to develop our cannon models. The wheels on the Swedish 4-pounder have a bigger diameter than the regular 4- pounder. |
| Cardinal Hawkwood | 02 Jun 2013 10:07 p.m. PST |
fine looking gun there DAF, a fine looking gun. |
| GiloUK | 03 Jun 2013 1:19 a.m. PST |
When you see cannon in real life you appreciate just how big they really are. Great stuff, DAF. |
| crogge1757 | 03 Jun 2013 12:14 p.m. PST |
Yep.
And the above photo only shows the ‘short' swedish type 4-pounder, not the longer Vallière model. This US origin photo has the French barrel mounted on a US carriage. Not the original French one that I illustrated. |
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's motivation to paint Napoleonic ships returns!
