A have moved back into a Napoleonics phase. These beauties are the Baccus Austrian Limbers and Caissons. They are the type of thing I always get, and then never find the time to actually paint. I really have no idea what I am going to use the Caissons for, I just like having them I guess.
The Baccus limbers all come with strips of three horses in line, and another strip of three with mounted troopers/mule skinners/drivers. The problem I found is that the three long strips with limber take up too much of a 30x60mm stand.
With that in mind, I tried some with only four horses instead of six....
Much better fit.
The caissons presented no such problem.
For the bases, I tried to replicate a road bed for them to be trundling along. It makes them look good in column.
I love the look of caissons and limbers in any scale, but usually only do a very few of them. in 28mm, they're pretty expensive, plus the time to paint. I never use 6 horses, and even 4 tends to tie up a lot of table space (of course, that makes a battery occupy a more realistic footprint, which isn't really bad, but still... I usually try to get away with just a pair of horses w/ a driver/rider, incorrect as it is technically!
ReplyDeleteVery nice looking. I have a load of Irregular 4 and 6 horse limbers but will replace these (and the gunes) with Baccus over time. I just finished a couple of wagons I bought on e-bay (H&R) I don't NEED them but felt I needed them. Seems fair enough to me LOL
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Nice caissons and I really like the idea of the road in the base. Very good visual!
ReplyDeleteThanks to all. I just finished painting the French counterparts and they are in the process of being based. I have noticed from the Baccus website that he trimmed off the tongue of the limber and cassions. Do you guys keep them there are let the cart 'float' freely?
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