The last finishing touches applied in my state of the art Spraying Booth.
I was priming the smaller 1/72 scale, A Call to Arms British Artillery 1815,and also some other stuff today,and thought I`d do some of these larger size figures too. So I pinched them from my Collection of unpainted toy sets where they have sat for 10 years. Hopefully they will be a helping guide as I paint the others. There is a mass of straps on these guys leading to the Cartridge case and bayonet, the large bag, the water canteen, and the powder horn.
British Shrapnell
There is no propellent charge,or wooden shoe,or sabot with the cannon shot,but in spite of this mistake this is a good quality piece of work,and cheap as chips to buy,even if you have to buy the Guns in a separate box. Quite handy really if you need Guns for other war periods.
What follows is my own review concerning the 1/72 and 1/32 boxed sets.
Above the two boxes needed for the complete set.
The larger Guns are hollow cored out at the business end , so they look the part,quite unlike the smaller scale ones that do not have this feature, because the runner is connected directly to the front of the Gun.
The wheels are pushed on and require quite a force to fit them,and this was designed to be so ,( Like on many tuff to handle Toys ) ,and on this larger scale this causes no problem,but on the 1/72 scale the end just needs trimming off,to avoid buckling when trying to fit the wheels. Tiny thin pieces of plastic bend,and this is the down sized version of the 1/32 scale set .
This I remembered from some I did before so I thought a warning was way overdue.
On top of my box, along with some of the figures I`m working on ,is one of the Guns. BB