Screw gun battery mules: all six

I have been working on these on-and-off throughout the week, and now they are complete.

Six mules carrying the gun chase, breach, carriage, wheels, axel tree, elevation mechanism, and ammunition. Next I have to work on the gun crew figures which will accompany these.

The disassembled gun and ammunition distributed across six mules.

Screw gun battery mules: the first three

Today I made a bit of progress with the first mules for the screw gun battery, with breech, gun chase, and wheel loads.

I used lead for straps, fuse wire for buckles, and ProCreate for the various covers designd to keep dust and debris out of the gun components. So far I am quite pleased with how these have turned out.

Breech, gun chase, and wheels loaded onto the first three mules.

The last of the Beja and Medical Staff Corps stretcher bearers vignette

Life has crashed across my hobby time these past weeks, in a good way for the most part, but totally derailed my painting effort.

Anyhow, here are the last of the Hadendowa, which will finish the enlargement of my bands of warriors … for now, and the Medical Staff Corps vignette.

I will return to the screw gun battery mules once the dust has settled on my life and home – the latter quite literally.

The last eight Hadendowa warriors, which will bring each band up to a strength of 18 figures, and the Medical Staff Corps vignette.

Medical Staff Corps stretcher bearer

I wasn’t really happy with the standing stretcher bearer, because I felt that in the circumstances suggested by the medic assisting a wounded soldier he should be crouching.

I had a spare figure from the screw gun battery, holdng a ramrod/sponge. I cut away the shaft, carefully reinstating the profile of the webbing beneath, and added trousers over the puttees with ProCreate. Add a right arm and left hand from the plastic sets spares box, and the result is not too shabby.

I abandoned the standing stretcher bearer in favour of this fellow.