Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Armies in Plastic: Royal Gatling Gun Crew - WIP

I have two AiP gatling gun crews and the first has made its way to the painting table.

These fellows below are the crew proper, with the left and central figure being generic to the various Royal Navy artillery sets, and the one on the right specific to the Gatling gun crew. They need their base edges finished, and then a seal of Mod Podge, followed by high gloss acrylic varnish.

Moe, Larry, Curly.

The two rifle figures included, ostensibly to protect the gun and its crew, are a bit further behind - the rifles themselves need to finished, uniforms touched up, bases need additional coats of green, and then the same finishing as above.

Two stalwart soldiers taking aim at foe (off-camera).

As I mentioned, I have two such sets. The second gun is to serve the Russians, so the crew is unemployed. However, they are not down on their luck. With the exception of the ammo carrier, I think the figures can be repurposed into character figures with a different paint job (explorers, big game hunters, eccentric officers, etc.) or the riflemen could be painted like the two above, and grouped into a 4-figure unit for the Portable Wargame or similar.

The extra ammo carrier will have one of the magazines cut from his hands, to be glued onto one of the guns, because one of the guns did not include the magazine that mounts on the gun itself.

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