| Lord Hill | 11 May 2023 1:24 p.m. PST |
Been absent without leave for a year or so but back with some new pics. Here's a battery (well…six guns for now) of French artillery at 1:1.
Many more pics at the blog link
Many thanks for looking! |
| Lord Hill | 11 May 2023 1:24 p.m. PST |
Been absent without leave for a year or so but back with some new pics. Here's a battery (well…six guns for now) of French artillery at 1:1.
Many more pics at the blog link
Many thanks for looking! |
14Bore  | 11 May 2023 1:34 p.m. PST |
It's fantastic to see what units are 1 = 1 |
 Artilleryman | 11 May 2023 2:17 p.m. PST |
Excellent diorama giving a realistic impression of the hustle and bustle. However, if I may make a comment the regulation distance between the guns was supposed to be about ten yards/paces. This position would be a bit cramped but maybe the circumstances demanded it. |
 Flashman14 | 11 May 2023 2:48 p.m. PST |
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 deadhead | 11 May 2023 11:51 p.m. PST |
As one who is struggling with a 1/72 battery of HA right now, I think all they need is a couple of howitzers, eight limbers and at least eight caissons, all pulled by six horses (OK Maybe four for the latter). That way lies madness and I should know! On balance, what you have here is terrific and looks very realistic. Good to see the crews correctly positioned for once, too. |
| CHRIS DODSON | 12 May 2023 1:26 a.m. PST |
Very nice indeed and as you say you will need another gun and howitzer for a full compliment. As Mr D states, how nice to see the correct positioning of the crews with the live and ‘dead' sides to prevent accidents. Once again this demonstrates the area occupied by artillery and this is without the accompanying train.. Very nice painting and great composition . They do look like they are reacting with each other and no one is positioning themselves to commit suicide from recoil as we often see . Best wishes, Chris |
| Lord Hill | 12 May 2023 4:45 a.m. PST |
Many thanks for all your kind comments. Artilleryman (!), I am aware of them being too closely positioned. My understanding was that a pair of two guns would be 10 yards apart from each other, but that the distance from the next pair would be even greater. Anyway, I'm pleading "crowded conditions to fit the Grand Battery in the available space at Waterloo" (aka, I don't have enough shelf space!) Deadhead I will try to get round to the limbers etc soon – I have them waiting, I just need to live another 250 years to get them all done. Chris, it's really nice when people notice the little details, thank you. That's why we do it, isn't it? Crazy geeks putting in the effort so that similar crazy enthusiasts spot them! |
| deadhead | 12 May 2023 9:36 a.m. PST |
If in all seriousness you do take on the limbers, caissons etc (I was only teasing you know) the "footprint" even in 1/72 is massive. This, without what should be two caissons to a gun and enough horseholders and horses for the HA gunners. I think I will have 12 held horses for the entire battery to ride….. What a target they must have been, as densely packed together boxes on wheels, filled with stuff that goes bang all too easily. |
| d88mm1940 | 12 May 2023 11:10 a.m. PST |
And most wargame rules classify batteries as "open order" targets… |
| 4th Cuirassier | 12 May 2023 3:05 p.m. PST |
This is something really interesting about this hobby. Based on how artillery batteries actually looked you'd have to question how they are not close order targets all the time. A previous instance of this was a model I once saw that someone built of a Japanese aircraft carrier at Midway. When you saw how much deck space just half the air group took up when spotted on deck, it was abundantly clear that if they'd spotted any more, they'd have been so far forward there wouldn't have been enough deck from which to take off. For those who follow WW2 carrier battles, this explains literally everything about the apparently inefficient way the Japanese put air strikes together. |
| Wunsche | 12 May 2023 4:29 p.m. PST |
Tremendous diorama! It really brings to life what a gun position looked like with the various posed miniatures. And is a great inspiration for me to look at when I do my next one gun battery! Great job and keep it coming! |
| Disco Joe | 13 May 2023 12:42 p.m. PST |
Very nice. The paint job is exceptional. |
| Erzherzog Johann | 13 May 2023 1:39 p.m. PST |
Beautiful work. Re the close order issue, surely a column of infantry would have many times the number in the same 'footprint'. Cheers,
John |
| Lord Hill | 14 May 2023 1:44 p.m. PST |
A few more pics which I'd somehow missed off the blog post originally. Thanks again for looking and all your kind comments.
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| deadhead | 15 May 2023 9:24 a.m. PST |
Just love the low angle shots. Very realistic |
paints brigs for the British fleet.
