Friday 2 March 2012

RP No 56 FIW French Artillery and Limbers


More figures I've painted recently, these limbers and artillery were painted last month and entered into the Annalouge Painting Challenge netting me loads of points!!! Now this painting Challenge has been excellent, I've got so much stuff painted that I probably wouldn't have got don. For instance these pieces have been in a box all made up and waiting for a lick of paint since 2007!!!!! 5 bloody years, now that's ridiculous if you ask me, even by my standards.
The pieces are as the title suggests for my French Indian Wars French army, all figures are Essex apart from some of the guns that are Frei Corps figures.











  Four Horse Limber


 I didn't base the artillery, so I can use them in fortifications and such, I think if I 
based them it just might get in the way.


36 comments:

  1. So many wonderful limbers! Great work, Ray!

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  3. Really nice stuff

    "these pieces have been in a box all made up and waiting for a lick of paint since 2007!!!!! 5 bloody years, now that's ridiculous if you ask me, even by my standards."
    Hah thats nothing I have 6mm ACW armies that are older than my son (18 last year) and have never even heard of a paint brush never mind seen one !! :-)

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  4. So I take it, you're having a slow work day????

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    1. No work today, I've been off for 12 lovely days, back to work tomorrow, boo, hiss!!!

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  5. Also, you missed my second toothpaste, post. And it even had your name in it.

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  6. Beautiful job on these. Thanks for including the close-up views. 5 years is a long time, but I think Sgt Steiner's got you beat hands down. :)

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  7. Ray those look fantastic. I hate look at your blog and lurker's it makes me want to buy minis again.

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    1. I'm sure Whisk will lend you some coupons, go on treat yourself!!!

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  8. Very nicely painted. I am of the same mind regarding not baseing artillery for use in fortifactions etc.

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    1. It just makes it easier, I think. Although I made bases for them to sit on, just to give an arc of fire and to stop the squabbling!!

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  9. Great work. I never seem to have time to do limbers

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  10. My word Ray these are nice; just as a matter interest do you actually know how many carriages, limbers etc. you have?

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  11. I like that you made a base but did not afix the guns to them. That was cleverly done. I will have to steal that for my AWI & ACW stuff.

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  12. Greate looking artillery !

    base or not to base thats the question...I have chosen to base... protect the minis some more...but it dosent look as fine as yours them limbered up...

    Best regards dalauppror

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  13. Great stuff... you are clearly the wagon-limber man!

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  14. That is a lot of horses! I think I have minis that have been waiting that long too^^. Good job!

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  15. Damn, just look at that set you made o_o

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  16. Ils sont superbes ces canons. Vive la Nouvelle-France!

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  17. That's a lot of horse flesh, and it looks very nice too, Ray. Be careful where you are walking. =(:)

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  18. Fives is nothing in the life of a limber. They look great and I hope you get lots of use out of them. I find limbers are good for clogging up roads when marching troops about the table.

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  19. Horses and guns. A classic... Good paining skills. A classic.

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  20. Ray, very nice as always! I started my F&IW collection in 15's years ago, then I moved to a new city and met a group who was soley 25's. Well I was convinced to this period in 25's and use the rule system, "This Very Ground".
    What rules are you using? I have one recommendation I picked up years ago. When I base up my limbers for this period and any other period I learned to add an extra 1-3inches behind the limber, so when the gun limbers up you can actually place it on the base, thus making it look nice and easier to moved around the game table...food for thought. Take care.

    Greg

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    1. I using my own set of semi-skirmish rules that are a mish mash of several sets of rules with a few ideas of my own. I was going to use that idea for the limbers, but I needed a base for the pieces to sit on to give an arc of fire, as its 15mm I thought that would be the easiest way??

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    2. I've seen the original artillery stand the same width as the limber and essentially sits on the extra space on the limber stand in the back. But since you're using seperate gun models then, just move that piece back and forth. Bottom line whatever works for you. I personnaly don't like turning the artillery stand backwards to represent it being limbered. I go the extra effort to make a seperate base for the gun and then move it to the limber when it moves.

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  21. Impressive...most impressive...

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  22. Excellent output again Ray. You put mine to shame!

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  23. Fantastic Ray! I don't know how you do it, I have a real dislike for painting the traces. Any more than a couple of horses at a time would drive me nuts!! Well done mate.

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  24. Great stuff, Ray. I'm happy the Challenge has sparked the fires of industry!

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  25. Wow! Great effort again Ray! These painting challenges seem like a very good way to get the metal out of the cupboards and on to the table

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  26. Impressive! Really nice work Ray!

    Christopher

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  27. Nicely done! That was slick to not base the cannons so they can pull double duty. Clearly, the five years was worth the weight. :-)

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