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[valleyboy]

I should have been at Borodino!
https://valleyboyinnz.wordpress.com/

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Great work, Kerry! Sorry you missed out on your game - I'm sure it will happen eventually.

[valleyboy]

Cheers Brendan, the biggest shame this year was missing catching up with you and the other reprobates here at Ayton I think

[RMD]

Today I've added some Royal Artillery units. This will be the last Burma stuff for a little while:

http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/2020/04/01/ ... ma-part-4/

[Shahbahraz]

Rather nice they are. Lovely level of detail painting on that last picture of trucks. Though if I see 25lb on the table it means there's been a breakthrough and the enemy is in the gun-lines.i have to assume you use a very much larger table than I do.

[RMD]

Rather nice they are. Lovely level of detail painting on that last picture of trucks. Though if I see 25lb on the table it means there's been a breakthrough and the enemy is in the gun-lines.i have to assume you use a very much larger table than I do.

As explained in the article, there are a lot of historical examples from Burma of defended 'boxes', with artillery firing over open sights. I did these (along with some 5.5s and 3.7-inch HAA Guns) for one such game.

That said, I do have a lot of artillery pieces for various nations, mostly because I inherited them from a mate. Most of them have never been on table and I've never even painted the regiment of Sexton Guns that I inherited, though a few have appeared in very large games. We did a game of the Battle of 's-Hertogenbosch a few years back that had a German artillery battalion holding the final objective at the end of a very long table. We also had an Angolan artillery battalion during one of our big Cold War games (they were in the middle of a defended box, with their backs to an impassable river - the deployment was packed to put it mildly).

[RMD]

I've finally finished off my Wellingtonic French Imperial Guard, so here's the artillery (cavalry to follow):

http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/2020/04/04/ ... artillery/

[grizzlymc]

Are those whore's artillery painted Humbrol blue?

[RMD]

Are those whore's artillery painted Humbrol blue?

Of course they are! All blue uniforms were dyed Humbrol 25 from around 1700 to 1939.

[Shahbahraz]

Ah, humbrol blue. Sometime in the early dark ages, about 45 years ago, I was the wonder of the world and apple of my aunties eye because I airbrushed that very colour onto the body of an Airfix model - a 1905 Rolls Royce IIRC. Came out lovely it did.. the rest of the kit was a bit o a pig I recall.