They shall grow not old,as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them,nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning. We will remember them.
The horses are real artillery-horses in perfect "rest "-poses
When will this be available ?
greetings,Hans.
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They shall grow not old,as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them,nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning. We will remember them.
Lovely. Yes, perfect rest poses - apart from one often used piece of footage and photographs showing Royal Horse Artillery speeding over rough ground with 13 pounder flying about at the rear, how often do you see horses at the gallop towing artillery?!
The 6 horse gun team later this year,to make a whitemetal spin economic I have got to come up with another 4 horses with the relevant figures.So I am thinking of 1 with an officer and the other 3 as cavalry.
THe limbers,if all goes well I will be getting the revised etches for all the limbers and guns this week.If they are OK then I will bring them out ASAP. Which would be nice especially now that I have the gun crews to go with them.
Cannot comment on the limbers. The seem much flatter than the ones for the 13pdr - I guess the reason might be the shells being heavier, so less are stored. But wouldn't it have been easier to convert the other limber and fill up some space with lighter items like the crew's personal belongings?
To explain the limbers, one is horse limber the other is the ammunition wagon.The ammo wagon was not attatched to the horses.It was attatched to the horse limber.The idea was the gun was detatched from the horse limber,said limber was emptied of ammo, then off it went to pick up more ammo where the ammo wagon was also attatched. Then both went back to the gun.
To confuse the issue even more the W^D 18pdr limber set has also the 2 types of limber only with this one there are 2 distinct types of horse limber !!!!! Would you like me to post some pictures of the 18pdr limber set on the Forum.
Thanks for the explanation. British limbers seem to be a complicated thingie, no wonder no-one went the whole way to male them so far! Looking forward to any further info on the matter, since limbers were such a vital and common piece of equipement. Regards, Pat
