I've just finished my first KAR infantry and want to move on to do their 2.5" screw guns but what colour would they be painted.
Apart from mud of course. ;)
Hello SB
Wiki shows grey carriage and weathered brass barrel:-
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/South_Africa-Gauteng-Fort_Klapperkop003.jpg/450px-South_Africa-Gauteng-Fort_Klapperkop003.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/RML2.5inchMountainGunFirepowerMuseum2006.jpg/800px-RML2.5inchMountainGunFirepowerMuseum2006.jpg)
Or if you have a spare $33,000 you can buy one and check the colours immediately :P :P:-
http://www.ima-usa.com/original-british-rml-2-5-inch-jointed-mountain-cannon-the-screw-gun.html (http://www.ima-usa.com/original-british-rml-2-5-inch-jointed-mountain-cannon-the-screw-gun.html)
Olive green carriage, natural wood (replacement?) wheels.
Cheers
GrumpyOldMan
Thanks GOM. The grey ones look to be the colour used during the Victorian era but I the one on sale may be what I'm looking for. So some sort of olive green or olive drab will do the job.
How will you get it on the table, and won't it be out of scale?
Quote from: Dour Puritan on 16 January 2015, 05:23:42 PM
How will you get it on the table, and won't it be out of scale?
Ahhh.... but what a deadlock breaker!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Grey is the official colour until the early 1900's.
IanS