"Essling Granary" Topic

Following a meeting at Crisis last year & several email discussions Jens from Najewitz Models had agreed to build me a 20mm model of the Schuttkasten at Essling.

He has now decided to make it for general release & it should be available from next weekend.
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Ready for now. The Essling Granary in scale 1:72.

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Fantastic stuff Jens, can't wait to pick it up next weekend.

Bob

Very nice work! Might the building also work as a granary or armoury in some other location?

Skeptic

It would work as whatever you want wherever you want, it's just a replica of an actual building.

@Skeptic
this type of granary in similar style was often to find in Austria and some regions of southern Germany. Also in Hungary, Czechoslovakia and in Poland.

It always does strike me that that it could not have been better designed for defence. The original (this is an excellent copy). Many small windows, at many levels, limited entrances…all that is missing is a moat.

Could contemporary field cannon even touch those walls? Roof I can accept as more fragile, but would an 8lb or 6lb roundshot just bounce off? I genuinely have no idea.

Often hear that places like LHS or Hougoumont, in what is now"Belgium", that was not just a coincidence. Some forethought went into it?

The doors at 4 levels were almost surely used for bringing in heavy stuff to the upper levels. There should be a crane for lifting things up from the ground on the outside of the building.

it took 10 feet of rammed earth to stop a 6lbers.

Brick many feet so cannon shot would go through it.

the hole at the top door is for the post which would act as crane. bags of flour would be 80 lbs.

Nice piece and interesting info cheers.

Hi,

I think that this is great but I need one in 28mm scale!

I wonder if that's a possibility.

Shame that I've not been to Tactica but I will try next year.

Cheers,

Paul

do you have table big enough for a 28mm granary, with enough room for anyone to attack it? It seems quite a substantial thing in reality………….

Having seen the real, very large, thing, if you are fighting in 28 mm, unless you have a truly huge table, I would recommend that the assault on the granary be a separate scenario in the same way as people have fought Hougoumont and La Haye Sainte.

That looks great, nice to see a building like this is 20mm.

Following on what Deadhead and Lordghee said:

Looking at the walls, and thinking about the effect of cannon balls. Would they have such velocity that they'd punch through cleanly without tearing out too many bricks? Otherwise, were cannon not able to aim at the building because of tactical considerations at the time? I've always been curious about that.

Hi,

As to needing a big table I agree but I'm lucky so I've got 2 big permanent tables each of which is 12 feet by 6 feet (4 metres by 2 metres).

Plancenoit in my Den: 1drv.ms/1PxGOQT

Abensberg in my "Waterloo Room": 1drv.ms/1KXqI1z

Sadly in different rooms!

Agree that I need a bigger table though so I'll ask my wife!

Cheers,

Paul

Oh those pictures are brilliant…..

Mrs Deadhead just looked over my shoulder and said "Oh, his poor wife" before I had even shown her your last line.

The buildings, the figures, the scenery, the room itself with all that storage space………..

Anyone following the link, go for the full screen slide show………..

After meeting a friend from Vienna at Tactica this weekend, it became clear why the walls could not be destroyed by artillery fire.

They are 2 metre thick stone blocks, & although Austrian guns weren't the best of the period, I think that instead of sending several battalions of grenadiers to their death, the Austrians would have just pounded it to rubble if they could have.