Second post of the day and hopefully a bit of a surge for the end of the challenge!
Right at the start of this year's challenge I did a model of a captured Ottoman gun with an Imperial crew, see <here>, now that we are getting near to the end of the challenge, I was keen to get the second of the two guns I obtained from Trent Miniatures fielded.
To which ends - here we are! An Ottoman Gun with a Turkish crew at the Siege of Vienna.
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| The finished Ottoman Gun Emplacement |
I have scratch built the Ottoman crew from Gripping Beast Arab Infantry and Wargames Atlantic Afghan Warriors - both plastic 28mm kits. The rammers are spear arms with the spear shafts cut down and a suitable head attached, one figure has a powder horn to prime the cannon, modelled from a Wargames Atlantic Irish War Horn!
The new addition to my previous such efforts is the inclusion of resin 3D printed Ottoman heads, in the Janissary style - which I think gives the figures a much more tangible Ottoman feel.
The heads were from eBay and I got them for 25p each, though it looks like the price has now doubled but not a deal breaker in my view...
Figures were painted in light coloured clothes, two in longer robes and two in leggings with jackets, I gave the head dresses a red band, simply to make it look good, I doubt this is historically accurate!
I placed the gun behind two earth filled gabions to hint at the siege conditions that they were operating under.
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| Another view of the finished gun , crew and scenery |
The figures were undercoated white and then colour added before washing with watered down Army Painter inks. They were all matt varnished and the base built-up in the usual way with Fine sand and electrostatic grass.
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| And finally the two batteries side by side - really just to show that these are two separate guns! |
