WWI Ammo carrier
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billyturnip
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Another splendid fig. I know which books you've been using for ref. now, 
Roger.
Roger.
Great job on all three, different subjects.
Carl.
Carl.
Dan Morton
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Very well done, Victor!
All the best,
Dan
All the best,
Dan
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Hi All,
(Roger, this was from Osprey MAA 182). Some details and clarifications:
Bombardier, Royal Field Artillery, 15th Div, 1918.
The illustration in the book showed the artillery shells with tip upwards. I chose to model my figure with the tip downwards for ease of removal and to prevent accidents if the shell was to fall out. An ex-artilleryman has said that my shells are quite large to represent 18 pdrs which were more 3 and half inch in diameter.
I got other info on the groundsheet cape and the way it was worn on the internet. Dan supplied great info on the pannier item , which was really hard to come by. One more point - I was given a pic of a Jagger sculpture of an RA with a pannier which had wound rope as handles. The Osprey book showed thinner cloth covered handles. So there may have been at least two types of pannier models?
So who knows, maybe another more accurate bombardier model from me in the near future?
Rgds Victor
(Roger, this was from Osprey MAA 182). Some details and clarifications:
Bombardier, Royal Field Artillery, 15th Div, 1918.
The illustration in the book showed the artillery shells with tip upwards. I chose to model my figure with the tip downwards for ease of removal and to prevent accidents if the shell was to fall out. An ex-artilleryman has said that my shells are quite large to represent 18 pdrs which were more 3 and half inch in diameter.
I got other info on the groundsheet cape and the way it was worn on the internet. Dan supplied great info on the pannier item , which was really hard to come by. One more point - I was given a pic of a Jagger sculpture of an RA with a pannier which had wound rope as handles. The Osprey book showed thinner cloth covered handles. So there may have been at least two types of pannier models?
So who knows, maybe another more accurate bombardier model from me in the near future?
Rgds Victor
billyturnip
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I've used that book a lot myself Victor
Being an ex Gunner myself I think it would be more likely to damage the fuze and cause an accident carrying them this way. That doesn't mean nobody ever did though
Probably why there's so many lying around in French & Belgian farmers fields unexploded
Roger.
Being an ex Gunner myself I think it would be more likely to damage the fuze and cause an accident carrying them this way. That doesn't mean nobody ever did though
Probably why there's so many lying around in French & Belgian farmers fields unexploded
Roger.
billyturnip
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Hi Victor. I think it unlikely that anyone would carry shells fuse pointing downwards. The fuse being the most easily damaged part of the shell.
Notice I said unlikely, someone's bound to post a photo of someone doing it and it's nitpicking at your model, which isn't what I reallly want to do.
Roger.
Notice I said unlikely, someone's bound to post a photo of someone doing it
and it's nitpicking at your model, which isn't what I reallly want to do. Roger.
billyturnip
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The RA Memorial in London! I forgot all about that. Maybe they used both methods... maybe it doesn't matter which way up the shells went. I'm as confuzed (very clever ) as you now.
Roger.
I forgot all about that. Maybe they used both methods... maybe it doesn't matter which way up the shells went. I'm as confuzed (very clever ) as you now.Roger.
John Bowery
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Voctor,
Great figure and certainly different.
Cheers
John
Great figure and certainly different.
Cheers
John
sirhogr
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Shells fuse pointing downwards, shells fuse pointing upwards, i don't care! Great painting!
billyturnip
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Hi Roger,
Yeah. The sculpture seems to suggest that the two shells on each half of the pannier are placed forward whereas I thot that the shells (and their weights) were more evenly distributed front and back. Definitely requires another figure to be modelled on this.
Thanks for all your comments.
Rgds Victor
Yeah. The sculpture seems to suggest that the two shells on each half of the pannier are placed forward whereas I thot that the shells (and their weights) were more evenly distributed front and back. Definitely requires another figure to be modelled on this.
Thanks for all your comments.
Rgds Victor
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Dear John, George, Roger and all,
thanks for all your comments and feedback. Sometimes, in the absence of definite documentation, re-enactment or continuous feeddback from modellers can lend weight to any interesting bits of information.
Rgds Victor
thanks for all your comments and feedback. Sometimes, in the absence of definite documentation, re-enactment or continuous feeddback from modellers can lend weight to any interesting bits of information.
Rgds Victor
billyturnip
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Victor, if you had asked the questions before you sculpted the piece I fear you won't have even started
