Wednesday, 1 November 2017

Boer Artillery

These are more of the figures I recently received from Ross. They’ve been touched up and rebased to my own basing scheme. The gun I believe is a British one but I thought it looked suitably ‘Boer-ish’ and in the absence of proper 20mm Boer artillery it certainly looks the part.


The gunners are a mixture of Jacklex and Scruby figures. Jacklex never produced any Boer gunners commercially although apparently some prototypes were made – click here. The Jacklex figures in this crew are BW6 Horse Holder and PEA5 Officer (from the Mexican War range).


There is good news on the Boer artillery front however as Newline Designs have just released a Pompom gun and crew. I already have a couple of Pompoms from Raventhorpe Miniatures but this newer offering looks a bit more businesslike so I will probably get some in due course.
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5 comments:

  1. Phil1 November 2017 at 08:18

    This period is so tempting, and this artillery is looking so nice...and I love your realistic and splendid base, excellent!

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    1. Stryker1 November 2017 at 08:58

      Hi Phil - yes it's an under represented period in wargaming but offers some excellent scenarios without the need for hundreds of figures.

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  2. Matt2 November 2017 at 14:30

    This collection is coming along nicely, but you'll surely need an armoured train?

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    1. Vintage Wargaming2 November 2017 at 18:08

      I've got the Terry Wise Airfix Mgazine articles on making a Boer War armoured train up on Vintage Wargaming- they are inspirational

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    2. Stryker3 November 2017 at 02:45

      No armoured train planned at the moment as I still need to build up the British infantry. However it's a possibility for the future!

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