Tuesday 11 August 2020

Empress Miniatures WW1 British 4.5 inch Howitzer

Behold...the Empress Miniatures WW1 British 4.5 inch Howitzer, ammunition wagon and gun crew. The limber and team will follow in due course. The gun and ammunition wagon are from the hands of ace model maker John Hart and the crew from the skilled putty pusher that is Paul Hicks. There are a couple of really lovely touches in this set. Paul Hicks has sculpted each of the gunners wearing a lanyard on the left shoulder and John Hart's eye for detail has included a cracking dial sight for the gun. Other variations will follow including an early WW2 version of this gun and ammunition cart with rubber tyred wheels and crews for the same time period and some gunners in Wolseley foreign service helmets. Top work, chaps!













3 comments:

A J said...

A nice piece of kit!

Aly Morrison said...

Very nice indeed...
You can’t go wrong with a howitzer 😁

All the best. Aly

Doc Smith said...

Dammit! And here I was thinking I had everything I needed for my BEF project until I saw your version of the new Empress howitzer and crew - magnificent!

Cheers, Doc
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