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Re: Horse Artillery (was Re: Hussars!)
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lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.build.minifigs
Date: 
Sun, 29 Sep 2002 12:32:43 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Richie Dulin writes:
http://www.lugnet.com/loc/au/~1285/PortBrique/GrandArmie

Why horse artillery? Because I had a few spare blue torsos, and a lot more of
those old tyres... and some superficial research showing horse artillerists
wearing large busbies.

Magnifique!

I like the uniforms, the carriage, and the gun is wonderful - so simple, so
elegant, so, just so!  Most excellent.  I already have a half dozen red
Hussar types sitting on my monitor.  Now its off to build some light field
pieces.  i bet the out range and out accurate my clumsy ship cannon.

:-)

Richard
Still baldly going...



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  Re: Horse Artillery (was Re: Hussars!)
 
(...) The limber and the gun carriage both have an unusual five wide construction - I wanted the limber to have side by side seating, and six wide just looked too silly (as did building a wider seat *above* the wheels). I built the gun carriage five (...) (22 years ago, 30-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au)

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  Horse Artillery (was Re: Hussars!)
 
(...) Actually there is.... Port Brique now has horse artillery. ;-) (URL) horse artillery? Because I had a few spare blue torsos, and a lot more of those old tyres... and some superficial research showing horse artillerists wearing large busbies. (...) (22 years ago, 29-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.build.minifigs)  

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