The Guns of August (1914) (1 Viewer)

[Obee]

I have just finished a painting project I'd like to share with you all.

Its 3 British guns and crew, with equipment and uniforms from 1914.

The gun line below is showing the mixture of calibres ready to fire the morning barrage as dawn breaks over the trenches on the Western Front.



Left to right: 18 pde QF gun, 13 Pdr QF gun, 5 inch Howitzer Mk1

Closeup of the guns and crew:


5inch Howitzer : Mountford kit - Gunners Rose Minitures (John Eden Studios)


18 Pdr QF gun : Hinchliffe kit - Gunners Rose Minitures (John Eden Studios)


13 Pounder QF gun - Gunners Rose Minitures (John Eden Studios)

I hope you like them,

John

 

[aujj65]

These look rather splendid John! {bravo}}

Jeff

 

[lancer]

Gorgeous job. Look as good as anything I've ever seen. -- Al

 

[beating retreat]

Hi John

Great looking sets, Ive just got the shirt sleeve order guys this week from John Eden for a project Im doing for a UK collector.

Regards John

 

[Artillery_crazy]

I have just finished a painting project I'd like to share with you all.

Its 3 British guns and crew, with equipment and uniforms from 1914.

The gun line below is showing the mixture of calibres ready to fire the morning barrage as dawn breaks over the trenches on the Western Front.

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Left to right: 18 pde QF gun, 13 Pdr QF gun, 5 inch Howitzer Mk1

Closeup of the guns and crew:

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5inch Howitzer : Mountford kit - Gunners Rose Minitures (John Eden Studios)

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18 Pdr QF gun : Hinchliffe kit - Gunners Rose Minitures (John Eden Studios)

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13 Pounder QF gun - Gunners Rose Minitures (John Eden Studios)

I hope you like them,

John

Hi John,
You did it again.....

Congratulations on the fantastic turnout. Specially for the Hinchliffe 18 pdr re birth.....When I first set my eyes on it in the lot I bought,my hopes were so low that the gun could be recovered from the prior disastrous assembly, that I nearly did not send it half the world around to you to get it fixed.....but my faith on your master work is stronger and I sent, well....it paid out!! Doubt anyone could have guessed what the gun looked like before you laid your hands on it......

The gun line and the individual sets look sharp and ready for action. One can feel an action packed, life like and jumping out of the page feeling with guns ready to fire as these little guys.....Pitty the current mass manufacturers no longer have the same magic...
I am anxious to see them cross two oceans and reach my shelf!{sm4}

If one were to *****s that all the garrisons are from John Eden, the 5 inch and the 18 pdr Hinchliffe, the divisional officer John Eden and the 13 pdr from Mountford, once assembled and paired they all look as if made exactly for each other as complementary sets! For me this is a sign of the great passion and craftsmanship that nowadays is ever more hard to find!
Nowadays other than John Eden and Scale Link no one else provides us with the casts that allows the freedom to change to let our imagination lose and create and match up sets that use the same high quality casting and harmonious pairing....Nowadays you are stuck to a single manufacturer.....and end up with a mass market collection...
When you then add a master builder like Obee to the source of great castings like John Eden and the defunct Hinchliffe and Mountford.....I am ready to take on any Shanghai based challange....^&grin{sm0}

Well done John.......

Dying to see what comes next!

Cheers

Luiz

 

[Rob]

Excellent work John, what superb pics . Thanks for posting

Rob

 

[Obee]

Thanks for all your kind words, I really appreciate your comments, it makes it all worthwhile.

What Luiz mentioned was that the 18 Pdr Hinchliffe gun was not assembled correctly, it was painted grey and initially I didn't think that i could do anything with it... excelpt melt down for metal !!!!

This is what it looked like:



I firstly used a lot of paint stripper to remove the coats of paint and varnish to reveal the bare metal.



Luckily some of it was glued, but much was soldered, so I had to break the joins, and then remove the excess solder to bring the parts back to original.

I have a Steadfast 13 Pdr casting (on the left in the above image), and so that was a great help in the assembly,

as well as photocopies form the original 18 Pdr Service Book, and images of an 18 Pdr at out local Artillery Historical Society here in Perth.



Here is another shot of the finished gun.... MUCH BETTER ???



John

 

[johnnybach]

Great to see another "rescue" of a piece from oblivion John. Very nicely done and finished too. Loved the tiny detail - such as the soles of the shoes of some of the kneeling gunners. Must help considerably too - being an ex-gunner yourself.

Another first-class job - and sounds like a very happy Luiz too! I will look forward, in due course, to see what Luiz does with them - in his excellent posts. jb

 

[wayne556517]

The master strikes again,they look great mate.

 

[Obee]

Loved the tiny detail - such as the soles of the shoes of some of the kneeling gunners.
. jb

JB,

I'm glad that someone has noted the finer deatils....

Who polishes under his boots????

No One!!!

Thats why I paint a leather colour when troops are kneeling and on mounted figures, just to get realism on a small scale.

regards,

John

 

[Artillery_crazy]

Here are some of the latest great pieces of master work done by our friend Great Obee and that will soon incorporate themselves to my WW1 Western Front Artillery support, forward patrol/" rece" batallions.....more pics to come....
Obee´s unlimited ability to match existing sources of sets to ones planned and exisitng collections is limitless.....Thanks God I am half a world across from him..otherwise my creditcard statement would go bust .......with all the ideas I have and his ability to translate them to reality...........:{sm3}^&cool^&grin

 

[Artillery_crazy]

I just received the latest sets Obee assembled and before adding them to the other sets......had all the guns rolled out for an axel to axel barrage set up.....just in the same style as they would have been in the Great One......just I wished I had more Dio space so as to lay them out even more........Let the barrage begin......{sm4}:salute::^&grin{eek3}
Cheers
Artillery_Crazy

 

[Artillery_crazy]

......had all the guns rolled out for an axel to axel barrage set up.....just in the same style as they would have been in the Great One......just I wished I had more Dio space so as to lay them out even more........Let the barrage begin......{sm4}:salute::^&grin{eek3}
Cheers
Artillery_Crazy

 

[Artillery_crazy]

........Let the barrage begin......{sm4}:salute::^&grin{eek3}

 

[Artillery_crazy]

......had all the guns rolled out for an axel to axel barrage set up.....just in the same style as they would have been in the Great One......just I wished I had more Dio space so as to lay them out even more........Let the barrage begin....
Cheers
Artillery_Crazy

 

[Artillery_crazy]

......had all the guns rolled out for an axel to axel barrage set up.....just in the same style as they would have been in the Great OneCheers
Artillery_Crazy

 

[Artillery_crazy]

more pics

 

[Obee]

Luiz,

Your gun line looks First Class, I can almost smell the chordite as the release thier projectiles onto the enemy trenches.

A great diorama, well done and I 'm pleased to have been part of its construction.

John

 

[Artillery_crazy]

Normally they do not show up at the front and are generally pulling their weight and that of others in the rear...well it took me a while and the great help of Obee to come up with this ALL METAL ....no fancy high tech plastic Steam Tractor paired to a heavy 8 " Howitzer......this baby has just been released for HQ inspection and is bound to the troop ship soon.....The garrison due to some logistics mess up ( mine ) will follow soon.....
I the world of Artillery I figured out that too much had already been dedicated to the light field guns in the great war...so I was fortunate to tap into some sources and get emblematic samples of the great heavies from the British, German and Austrian stock and will with the help of Obee be showing them during the course of 2016-2017.......
Cheers
A_C

 

[johnnybach]

Thought you might enjoy this Luiz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huQhqXiB8O0