Friday, 9 April 2021

AHPC11 - Haitian Revolution - Rebel Artillery 30pts

 


From what I've read so far, its highly unlikely that the Rebel force had or used any artillery. Some of the Rebels/slaves were very well treated and were highly educated, so I thought that maybe they might have had a little artillery training form the French or Spanish forces on the island. So I thouht it would be a good idea to include 1 artillery piece in their army.


I'm not at all sure what make this gun is? I painted it a a dark red colour to represent a captured Spanish artillery piece, which means if I ever fancy getting some Spanish, I can always use this gun.


How to represent artillerymen for the Rebel Slaves? Was my first question.
All 4 figures are from Front Rank, the first is from their Napoleonic Civilian range. I did consider a head swap but chose to keep him as he is and have him as a Mulatto (a person of mixed racial race). The kneeling figure is from Front Rank's AWI range, with a Trent Miniatures head swap. The chap with the bucket is also from their AWI range, again I painted this figure up with a lighter skin tone as I wanted to keep his hat. The last figure is again from their AWI range with another head swap



Points are easy...
10 for the Gun
5 each for the men
30 pts!

30 comments:

  1. Wonderful stuff Ray, I am definitely pinching that idea.
    Cheers
    Stu

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  2. Great idea and looking model

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  3. Great work Ray!
    Vive Toussaint...

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  4. That looks great. And I like the forward planning so the gun can be used in a variety of forces. I don't always succeed in doing this, but it's a great way to make less go further.

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  5. Ray, I think perhaps 20 points for the gun ..... the red looks great.

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  6. Great looking cannon and crew, Ray. Love the red colored carriage and clever use of civilian figures.

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    1. Cheers Dean, I did struggle to find the kind of figures I needed to be honest.

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  7. Nice little group- waiting to cause mayhem!

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  8. Another excellent addition to the Haitian project Ray.

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  9. Even if the slaves never had artillery it's always good to have the option for a 'what if' scenario.
    good job on the carriage and figures too, they look the part.

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