Just a quick post to show off my Spanish Peninsular draught animals to get 'The Gun' to Ávila while avoiding the French. It's not their first appearance as they did get a walk on part in my first ever post.
First, an overview of the whole baggage train.
The ox-carts.
The mules.
The postillions on the mules, like this figure ...
... were all fairly straight-forward conversions of the Jacklex Colonial figures inspired by Suhr's contemporary illustrations of Romana's Spanish Division in Hamburg, 1807-08.
And the reason for it all, The Gun, complete with Cary Grant, Sophia Loren and Frank Sinatra.
Yes, the gun is ridiculously over-scale being a Warhammer Great Cannon, but the Hollywood version is even further over the top.
In C S Forester's 'The Gun' it's only an 18-pounder, and in the historical event on which the story is based it's a 12-pounder.
Mules and Oxen what could be better? The whole set looks brilliant!
ReplyDeleteCheers, I must actually get a game out of then sometime.
DeleteThey look great, super work on them.
ReplyDeleteThanks, for some reason I enjoy painting animals.
DeleteThose look wonderful and it reminds me how long it has been since my Spanish limbers, guns, wagons and pack animals marched/lumbered across the table. I love your nonchalant looking mule rider working "hard" between cigarette breaks.
ReplyDeleteStephen [naturally the Duke approves - after all it's how we won the war against the Corsican Ogre]