"Austrian Artillery Train" Topic

Austrian Artillery Train

I have been fortunate to have access to Mr Kane's wonderful Prussian Artillery train sculpts which feature a six horse team, limber, cannon and team riders.

The Prussian limber is different from the Austrian design so I substituted the box for a Hat Cavalry Artillery one.

The harness arrangement is different too.

I am most grateful to a Mr. Chasseur for his excellent work on his blog spot.

A real find for Napoleonic fans.

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Rather than base my team, as I have the use of a sand table I wanted to have flexibility with the horses.

To this end, I built an attachment out of balsa with originally unravelled picture wire fastenings. Whilst not completely accurate I require the structure to be durable and hence the compromise.

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The loop will allow the trail from the limber to rest in the correct position whilst being able to be separated if required.

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The piece comes with plastic ropes but I found the string to be strong enough to do away with the original wire idea and the plastic ropes too.

The team can now be split for handling without the need for a large base.

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The original Prussian drivers were given corse hut heads and I feel look the part once painted.

I am very pleased with the Mark 1 artillery train teams.

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Lots to do.

Chris

Very good.

I believe all artillery batteries should have limber teams
(unless the guns are emplaced). ;-)

Beautifully done.

Look good

You cannot beat an accurate display of the swingle trees and harness for an artillery train.

Horses not galloping like mad and drivers not flogging them with whips does help when we consider how they are likely to be seen on a table. Behind the gun line or moving up at a foot artillery pace.

Different harness at the rear for wheel horses, compared to the lead equines, is a detail lost on most makers. Most, in 20mm anyway. Zvezda, great horses, but every single one is a wheel horse. HaT, I cannot remember and mine are all gone off in a better cause. That link provided is brilliant and shows how the harness varied (easy in 28mm, nowt to it)

Very nicely done. And having the limbers on the battlefield goes to show how much space a battery actually takes.

Jim

Just try adding the caissons behind them! Then you see the footprint of a "battery", if two caissons to a gun (at least)

I do not know, seriously, how d'Erlon managed a Corps assault on the ridge, with the Grand Battery already in front of him on starting out. Lots of "Pardonnez-moi, Je m'excuse, silver plates etc"

Cassions etc are in the construction pipeline.

Regarding D'Erlon, the technique is called ‘A passage of lines'.

I attended the 200th Waterloo anniversary long weekend.

The fascinating part was watching drill and troop evolutions in the French camp.

You really get a ‘feel' of what went on from these re enactors.

Some were sleeping on straw for authenticity.

Great stuff and memories, ten years wow.

Chris

I found a reasonably looking woven thread in a rope color I use.
Very fantastic job you did