Following on from my blog 'Best Guns for the FPW Period', I decided to buy the Foundry 15cm Krupp Siege Gun FPPG003 to see what it looked like and to get an idea of its scale. Not because I need any more Prussian artillery!
It has a platform behind the gun which suggests that a gunner or gunners could stand on it at some point in the loading; siting or firing process. To take advantage of this, I cut the the base of one of the Prussian gunners I had converted and struck him on. It also gives an idea of the scale of the gun. I am not convinced this would work with a 28mm figure. It also looks as if the is firing the gun rather like a machine gun!
Surround by a full crew. I suspect the horse would do a 'runner' rather than wait for the big bang!
Update: Gun size. The wheels are 20mm high. the Gun carriage is 50mm. Including the barrel the overall length of the gun is 60mm. The height from ground to barrel is 30mm.
The gun itself looks very like the picture from the Minifigs catalogue which shows an S range FPW artillery FPA1 Prussian Siege Gun.
The gun itself looks very like the picture from the Minifigs catalogue which shows an S range FPW artillery FPA1 Prussian Siege Gun.
Thanks to the Lone S Ranger blogspot.com for
the use of this picture.
Very nice! Do you know any 20 mm stuff like this gun? Want them for my own army!
ReplyDeleteHi, thanks for looking and posting. I don't have any 20mm FPW figures, but put some Newline 20mm Napoleonic naval crew around this gun to see what they looked like scale wise. Given that this is supposed to be a large siege gun, I think you could use this gun. The wheels are 20mm high. the Gun carriage is 50mm. Including the barrel the overall length of the gun is 60mm. The height from ground to barrel is 30mm. My Newline figures are based on 2mm bases giving them a height of 22mm so they looked okay against the wheel. Hope this helps. Have edited the blog to include this information in the base article for others.
DeleteThank you a lot sir! Yes when you are interested in this era in 20 mm you need conversions or smth like yhis.
DeleteHi, Glad the additional information was of some help.
DeleteThe hours I poured over looking at the MiniFigs catalogue trying to work out which figure was which from the black and white photos .
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean you have to guess what they are I found that the numbers were either missing to link to the item in the lists.
DeleteMagnificent!
ReplyDeleteMany thanks for the comments as always they are much appreciated.
ReplyDeleteHi glad you like the photograph. I have two S Range catalogues with photos, the one the photo of the gun is taken from and which helpfully gives code numbers, and the other one with no code numbers and photographs seemingly placed at random.
ReplyDeleteI have been keeping an eye out for one of the S Range siege guns for around the last ten years without getting any sniff of one.
I also bought a couple of the Foundry siege guns to use with my S Range armies and I am pleased with them - they are certainly imposing. Could I ask you which blue you are using for their carriages?
I only recently (last ten days or so) came across the Bavarian Feldl gun, a four barrelled "canister shot" weapon capable of 300 rounds per minute and used successfully in defending Culmiers in October 1870, using significantly different tactics to the French use of the Mitrailleuse, including anti battery fire at 1200 yards. Germania.de do one in resin but I suspect it wouldn't stand up well to wargames use. Still, something distinctive for the Bavarians and could provide a bit of a surprise for the French.
Thanks for the useful information. Do you think that Minifigs actually produced everything in their catalogue? I know what you mean about trying to find this this gun and also some other figures such as the Sardinians in the CW range you never hear of them in sales on our blogs. Given some of the other odd figures that turn up from other ranges this is surprising.
ReplyDeleteThe blue is the remainder of a bottle of Palmer's ready mixed acrylic paint 'Baltic Blue' 172503, which I have kept going despite it's best attempts to dry out. I have had a quick look on Google and can't see this specific paint.