From NormS: A Napoleonic Austrian gun battery in 28mm (60 points)

This is a two model gun battery in 28mm metal from the Perrys for my 1809 Austrian collection. The brown tunics help break up all of the white of the infantrymen that I have been painting of late and I have been saving them for a bit of a treat.

One model is firing and the other is loading.

All my artillery to date has been of the firing pose type, based at 50mm wide by 80mm deep and I had fixed these guns to the bases to match everything else and prepped them just before the challenge, while I could still use the rattle can primer. 

It was only this week when making up each base that I saw that the gun model being loaded either needs a deeper base or the gun set further back to help the guy with the ram to be better placed within the base to protect that rod from accidental knocking - hey ho!

Anyway they have painted up quite nicely. For my metals I gloss varnish (hand brush) first, followed by a matt varnish, because years ago I read somewhere that gloss varnish is tougher than matt and that metals need that strength. I have no idea whether that is true, but am a slave to it anyway! Does anyone know whether the gloss varnish thing for metal is true?

8 x 28mm Infantry crew at 5 points each = 40 points.

2 x gun pieces at 10 points each = 20 points

Total for submission 60 points

Thanks 

Norm

Norm, these models look very nice, I especially like the bases and the great work on the uniforms. The artillery crews must have been stoked to have those cool bicorn hats, they look very sharp!

And yes I have also heard that gloss varnish gives a much tougher protective coating than the matte variety. However I am too lazy to varnish my models twice (and I also worry about the matte varnich not completely killing the gloss shine) so it's strictly matte for me, despite the fact my models might suffer for it.

Sixty points for you to start the work week!

Dallas