"Cannon Exercise..." Topic

Interesting, but unfortunally in french.
But you can tried with the translator.

From here
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Amicalement
Armand

I am sure I know the artist. That officer's face, we've seen his/her work before. Very good. Highly spirited.

Nice details. Everyone in parade dress and Guard in pre bearskin shako. Helpers from the Ligne Garde. Grenadier with front plate and red fringed epaulettes, Chasseur with green fringes and the right cartridge pouch ornaments. Dead chap in foreground with gold/red epaulettes as an NCO.

Negative (very minor actually). I thought Guard Artillery ammo pouches had crossed cannon, not Imperial Eagle. The Dead (far from Grateful) are remarkably intact! The plastic figures are highly amusing. The idiot who is trying to fire the cannon will not be popular with the spongeman. He will blow both his arms off if he suceeds, but the pic suggests the piece is not yet loaded. No one seems to have a clue what their individual artillery figures are actually doing, whatever the scale or manufacturer

I'm not very good with French – two years in high school, 1952 and 53 – so not sure about the site. These figures are absolutely gorgeous! The must be 54 millimeter or larger.

He color plate is from the Hourtoulle series in the last century, and may be the Guard artillery at Aspern-Essling.

I have nothing to criticize in these marvelous pictures!

GdeP

I think the figures are 20mm if that is a standard page they are on

The figures are plastic 1/72.
Happy you enjoyed them boys.

Amicalement
Armand

the figures are 1 / 72 scale from Zvezda (with maybe some head conversions) , the painting is by the late Jack Girbal of Hourtoulle plates fame, nice artist but not always reliable, like giving the ramrod into the hands of two gunners and you wouldn't sight a gun when two people were obscuring the front of your vision.
It is very rare to see a good gun crew, Francesco Messori is working on that, some of the Perrys ones are nice too.
The plate depicts the scene where French artillery was helped out by Guard infantry – supposedly at Wagram

Franznaps french artillery look very nice.

the Zvezda artillery is a fantatsic set, but it too could have done with two crews, one loading, one firing. But economics prevented that I guess (and we did get 3 guns, two limbers (6 horse teams) and a caisson, so not too shabby).

So most wargamers gunners are all doing the same stuff. But it is only make believe