"HyperWar Website of WWII Histories and Documents" Topic

I'm looking for a good tutorial on how to paint the various artillery pieces, carts, wagons and anything else with wheels
in the AWI.

I tried Google, but didn't reall find anything useful.

Any help would be appreciated.

Man, that LOCKFILE thing is working overtime today.

Whose side? I'm not aware of a one stop tutorial since the items you list are likely all over the place for the different sides of the war.

Whichever side has one.
If three or four diffenent people suggest different tutorials, then I'm probably covered.

And, by the way why, is this not on the front page.
The previous post is not there, either.

LOCKFILE strikes again.

The British tended to use a dark grey paint, based on period paintings. Note, it is not blue grey, but slate or dark grey. The boxes would have been the same.

The Americans used lots of captured artillery.

The French, at least going by the Yorktown National Battlefield Park, just grey paint as well.

Paint was used to protect the wood, and was used on implements as well for the same reason.

Oxide red may have been used on some American guns.

nps.gov/sara/index.htm

You can look up the DeLoutherberg painting for the Review at Warely Camp to see Brit guns of the period. I posted it in a previous thread. You can also look at the gun behind Washington in some of the Peale portraits for Princeton.

link

and

do a google image search on fort ligonier artillery, that includes wagons.