Welcome from a very wet and stormy Northern California.
Here are the latest and very cool new releases from John that will be arriving in March. We hope to have these at the WestCoaster, but cannot guarantee, but will do our best. We will have these on our web site later on today.
As always we hope you enjoy these as much as I do. Especially the Artillery limber, pretty amazing.....
Battle of Monongahela
In the field the British artillery was served by a well organized system of rolling stock. There were wagons for carrying ammunition, powder carts for extra powder, 2 wheeled tumbrels for general supplies and of course there were the limbers.
The mid 18th Century British artillery limbers had changed little since the previous Century, and consisted of a pair of wheels with a pintle on the axle for hooking through the trail transom of the cannon carriage. There were also shafts for hitching the horses. The 6pdr cannons were pulled by 2 horses, and there were 6 brass 6pdrs with the Braddock column at the Battle on the Monongahela.
BAL-02 - BRITISH ARTILLERY LIMBER, With 6lb Cannon,
(9pcs) Limited Edition 300
Retail us$169
Civilian Laborers were used extensively as drivers to help move the artillery. The rough roads which were constructed for the Monongahela expedition were very difficult going for the British artillery, and progress was as slow as 2miles a day. The heavier 12 pdr cannons were left behind and only the half dozen 6pdr cannons accompanied Braddock on the final leg of his expedition.
There were approximately 80 civilian wagoner’s, out of a reported 300 non combatants that accompanied the British column at Monongahela.
BAL-01 - Civilian Wagoneers
(2pcs) Limited Edition 350
Retail us$56
Accompanying the British expedition, as a wagon driver was a young 21 year old Daniel Boone. He was to become famous in later years for his exploration and settlement of what is now the state of Kentucky. His exploits as an American pioneer was to make him famous and probably the first folk hero of the United States.
THE JACOBITE REBELLION 1745
Highland axes were almost all referred to as “Lochaber” axes, and there were many different types. The basic Lochaber axe was essentially a form of halberd comprising a spiked head fixed on a pole. One side of the head was usually a curved blade, and the other side there was usually a curved spike, which was traditionally used to dismount cavalrymen, or cut their reins.
This figure is the first of 6 that have been inspired by the famous David Morier painting “An Incident in the Rebellion of 1745”, which was painted around 1750 and shows the Jacobites engaging the right flank of Barrell’s Regiment at Culloden. The painting is part of The Royal Collection, of Her Majesty the Queen, and today hangs above a doorway in Holyrood House in Edinburgh.
An incident in the rebellion of 1745
JR-07 - Highlander with Lochaber Axe
1 Figures (1pc) Limited Edition 500
Retail us$39
Retirements
RFB-01 Retired March 2009
RFB-02 Retired March 2009
QB-01 General Wolfe Retired December 2008
SHOWS AND EVENTS
John will be attending the West Coaster show, from Friday 6th March – 8th March. We are hosting John on Saturday afternoon, please contact us for details.
11th March he will be at the Sierra Toy Soldier shop in Los Gatos, CA . For our first John Jenkins Day, please contact us for details.
13th/14th March will be attending the New York Symposium
As always I hope you like the new releases. I know I do.
Best regards
Mike
Sierra Toy Soldier
Here are the latest and very cool new releases from John that will be arriving in March. We hope to have these at the WestCoaster, but cannot guarantee, but will do our best. We will have these on our web site later on today.
As always we hope you enjoy these as much as I do. Especially the Artillery limber, pretty amazing.....
Battle of Monongahela
In the field the British artillery was served by a well organized system of rolling stock. There were wagons for carrying ammunition, powder carts for extra powder, 2 wheeled tumbrels for general supplies and of course there were the limbers.
The mid 18th Century British artillery limbers had changed little since the previous Century, and consisted of a pair of wheels with a pintle on the axle for hooking through the trail transom of the cannon carriage. There were also shafts for hitching the horses. The 6pdr cannons were pulled by 2 horses, and there were 6 brass 6pdrs with the Braddock column at the Battle on the Monongahela.
BAL-02 - BRITISH ARTILLERY LIMBER, With 6lb Cannon,
(9pcs) Limited Edition 300
Retail us$169
Civilian Laborers were used extensively as drivers to help move the artillery. The rough roads which were constructed for the Monongahela expedition were very difficult going for the British artillery, and progress was as slow as 2miles a day. The heavier 12 pdr cannons were left behind and only the half dozen 6pdr cannons accompanied Braddock on the final leg of his expedition.
There were approximately 80 civilian wagoner’s, out of a reported 300 non combatants that accompanied the British column at Monongahela.
BAL-01 - Civilian Wagoneers
(2pcs) Limited Edition 350
Retail us$56
Accompanying the British expedition, as a wagon driver was a young 21 year old Daniel Boone. He was to become famous in later years for his exploration and settlement of what is now the state of Kentucky. His exploits as an American pioneer was to make him famous and probably the first folk hero of the United States.
THE JACOBITE REBELLION 1745
Highland axes were almost all referred to as “Lochaber” axes, and there were many different types. The basic Lochaber axe was essentially a form of halberd comprising a spiked head fixed on a pole. One side of the head was usually a curved blade, and the other side there was usually a curved spike, which was traditionally used to dismount cavalrymen, or cut their reins.
This figure is the first of 6 that have been inspired by the famous David Morier painting “An Incident in the Rebellion of 1745”, which was painted around 1750 and shows the Jacobites engaging the right flank of Barrell’s Regiment at Culloden. The painting is part of The Royal Collection, of Her Majesty the Queen, and today hangs above a doorway in Holyrood House in Edinburgh.
An incident in the rebellion of 1745
JR-07 - Highlander with Lochaber Axe
1 Figures (1pc) Limited Edition 500
Retail us$39
Retirements
RFB-01 Retired March 2009
RFB-02 Retired March 2009
QB-01 General Wolfe Retired December 2008
SHOWS AND EVENTS
John will be attending the West Coaster show, from Friday 6th March – 8th March. We are hosting John on Saturday afternoon, please contact us for details.
11th March he will be at the Sierra Toy Soldier shop in Los Gatos, CA . For our first John Jenkins Day, please contact us for details.
13th/14th March will be attending the New York Symposium
As always I hope you like the new releases. I know I do.
Best regards
Mike
Sierra Toy Soldier
What a great limber set - not sure how I can display it with my other BM figures ? Running out of room on the Battlefield ! 
