My entry for the BFG round is an emplaced Royal Artillery field piece to support my British FIW army that I painted in AHPC VII. Now Alan's French and Canadiens will have to content with bombardment, ball and shot while my ranks of Redcoats advance with cold steel!
I know what you're thinking - 'nice, but is it really "Big" for a BFG Bonus round?' Well big is a relative term and in the FIW campaigns along the frontier, there wasnt a lot of artillery. Most were emplaced in fortifications or brought up for specific sieges but in general, columns didn't have guns attached. So dropping a 12 pounder onto the table makes it a BFG indeed!
Figs are by Front Rank and I have used a large sabot base from Charlie Foxtrot models, which gave me the space to do a nice dioramic front with the gabions. The crew of 5 is for Sharpe Practice - our FIW rules of choice. Front Rank also impressed by providing alternate barrels for the gun carriage. In the pics above the larger 12 pounder barrel is shown. Here is the smaller alternative they provide in the pack, allowing me to field it as a 9 or even a 6 pounder.
After time away from painting Lace Wars era uniforms, I found these a bit of a struggle - not sure how I managed 50+ of them last challenge! In toto thats one field gun (10 points), 5 crew (25 points at 5 points each) and the 50 bonus points for a total of 85.
Nice artillery piece Paul
ReplyDeleteSo cool! The removal of the individual figures is awesome
ReplyDeleteThat is a handy base, and the alternative barrels are useful as well!
ReplyDeleteExcellent work. It's funny, I was planning to do some artillery bases for my Napoleonic project using gabions and here you posted the perfect example; I'm keeping the photos in my folders for reference and inspiration
ReplyDeleteTerrific vignette, Paul, I shall have to look at stealing your ideas!
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great stuff, lovely looking all together.
ReplyDeleteWell done, the vignette is excellent.
ReplyDeleteThat is absolutely splendid Paul.
ReplyDeleteGreat to see some Lace Wars figures in the bonus round- and nicely done they are too!
ReplyDeleteGreat looking gun emplacement with crew, very nice indeed!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Thank you everyone! Most appreciated
ReplyDeleteSuper stuff Paul. I never get tired of looking at Front Rank miniatures and you've done a cracking job on these.
ReplyDeleteThe crew looks really good, Paul! I like the cannon too, it's painted just as well as the crew. I don't envy them the effort of lugging that piece around!
ReplyDeleteRogers and his rangers captured a fort by using multiple flags and raising a ruckus where the French thought there was regiments surrounding them. They also used a tree stump and cart wheels to fabricate a cannon. In the gloom of the tree line, the French thought a 12 pounder was aimed at them! ;)