Sho Boki  | 24 Apr 2025 5:11 a.m. PST |
Todd says that Piedmont gunners used Austrian equipment.
So they should be sculpted with bricole ropes and Portfire cases like AB Austrian gunners. I have some doubts. Should I sculpt these items to Piedmont gunners or it is best to do gunners without any belts and ropes? Just like the second figure from the right..
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| Prince of Essling | 24 Apr 2025 5:54 a.m. PST |
Interesting picture – also shown on "The Sardinian Army: A Survey – Napoleon's 1796 Bloody Nose" website at link Plates 42 & 44 in "La Regie Truppe Sarde (1775-1814)" by Stefano Ales & Massimo Brandani published by the Stato Maggiore Dell'Esercito – Ufficio Storico, Roma 1989 show the uniforms in a dark shade of blue. |
Red Jacket  | 24 Apr 2025 9:01 a.m. PST |
As long as they are relatively accurate, I personally like more detail. Detail makes the model more interesting. |
| Sho Boki | 24 Apr 2025 9:19 a.m. PST |
At least in 1734 they didn't carry ropes or anything like that. |
 deadhead | 24 Apr 2025 11:30 a.m. PST |
Forgive me, but are these "Napoleonic Artillery"? If he was born in 1769, then he was a child when gunners appeared in such antiquated uniforms. It is far easier to add detail than remove such. Gun crew, with too much specific kit, can only serve in one place manning the gun. Without that one can introduce variety of positioning. |
| Prince of Essling | 24 Apr 2025 2:00 p.m. PST |
I have posted a copy of the artillery uniforms with the descriptive text from 1775 to 1814 from "Le Regie Truppe Sarde (1775-1814)" on Mediafire – copy can be downloaded via link There is a good article on the Piedmont quick-fire guns in the Smoothbore Ordnance Journal Issue 6 PDF link Theme Two: Saxon and Piedmont Quick Fire Guns
Section 3: Saxon and Piedmont Quick Fire Guns
SOJ-6(11) Saxon Geschwindstück ["Quick Fire Guns"]
by Christian Rogge and Stephen Summerfield
SOJ-6(12) Piedmont 4-pdr "Cannone alla Sassone"
by Giovanni Cerino-Badone, Christian Rogge and Stephen Summerfield
SOJ-6(13) M1766 Quick-Fire Guns
by Stephen Summerfield |
| Sho Boki | 24 Apr 2025 3:09 p.m. PST |
Thank you very much!
The picture is clear now, no Austrian bricole ropes and Portfire cases but old front boxes and gunpowder flasks instead. |
| 79thPA | 25 Apr 2025 5:40 a.m. PST |
Prince, you are a never ending fountain of information. |
| Lilian | 25 Apr 2025 4:35 p.m. PST |
of course there is no Piedmont Napoleonic Artillery, Piedmont was annexed to France in 1802 and divided in new departments, ceasing to exist as independent state until 1814 it remains the insular Kingdom of Sardinia without its continental territory, similar fate to the Bourbons of Naples remaining in Sicilia under british occupation by the way about the Army of Sardinia-Piedmont
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| Sho Boki | 27 Apr 2025 5:24 a.m. PST |
Thanks!
Another perfect examples.
And I discovered that maybe I sculpted pockets too high but I will not correct that. |
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