Well, I definitely started this project in
a hurry, and it will make me pay! No matter, the doing of it in numerical order
will pop-out of the window for this section as I'm doing all the wheeled stuff,
some with uniformed soldiers (medics/vets) some without like this one, and then
we'll get get back to the numbering. Also I said there were no colour plates in
this section, but there will be a few.
Overall, developments vis-à-vis the
paperwork means the linking page will take a while longer, but will be almost
complete, and with what I've got in the last 24-hours, and what Tony and I had
originally, I don't think there are many plates missing, nor many instruction-sheets
or painting guides lost either. Also there being no real order to the numbering
- Brit's in three placeings, more cavalry to come - it will make better sense
once the linking page is up.
Numbering starts with part 1 (Hussar style
dolman body/torso) and goes (as you can see above) through several basic single-figure
kit and larger multiple-figure sets or 'diorama kit' types to over 30300, but with large gaps, as
each type starts again at a higher point. Some things seem to have never got a
number, while a few non-Napoleonic items were in the range, Lady Godiva for
instance, both medieval and unnumbered!
This post is for the gun, which came as a
kit with two barrels, 12lbr or Howitzer, and two diorama sets, one with the cannon-barrels
only.
12 Pounder
Battle of Friedland Diorama
This was a larger boxed set which seems to
have contained one-each of the gun with 12lbr barrel and a limber, three horses, two
sets of horse furniture for towing, two mounted figures, seven foot and
whatever accessories were needed to finish them as illustrated, to which might
have been added the runners of letters, numbers and ciphers to add unit-designators
to their water bottles, saddlecloths etc?
Mont St. Barnard Diorama Set
Again, a set, with two 12lbr barrels, two
log-sleds and up to seven figures, presumably with parts for depicting artillery
personnel and engineers/pioneers?
Howitzer
It's only the barrel which is different
(the beauty of the Gribeauval designed artillery train, was its inter-operability),
but whether this meant you could (or had to) order, say, the trunion bands
(covering plates/brackets) as 643-26 or 677-26 I don't know, but ordering plain
'26' would have got you a human, male, left arm, posed for supporting a musket!
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