"Help with Napoleonic Portuguese canons please..." Topic
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| warpaintjj | 13 Jul 2014 5:32 a.m. PST |
Hi there,
I'm stuck on painting my Napoleonic Portuguese canons. My question is simple, were the barrels brass or iron/black or either? I see both and won't break down if I get it wrong! My preference might be for iron just to make them different to all my brass guns!
Any help would be much appreciated.
Cheerio chaps,
JJ |
| olicana | 13 Jul 2014 6:05 a.m. PST |
If they were brass / bronze they were left that colour but left to go dull in the field (polished in barracks). If they were iron they were painted black (sometimes – British – dark brown). |
| daubere | 13 Jul 2014 6:08 a.m. PST |
I thought that the British supplied the Portuguese with the guns for their artillery from ~1808? |
| Gonsalvo | 13 Jul 2014 6:44 a.m. PST |
it would be very unusual to use iron guns for field artillery; usual practice for fortesss artillery, though. |
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