The Big Push

Thr Great War has  dominated my hobby time and blog for 4 months now. Part of me finds this constancy worrying. What if this is a sign of a dormant and previously unsuspected streak of maturity beginning to surface? Improbable but scary! 

Apparently Oberhilse finally got their hands on the aging Mary Jane, covered her carnival red and gold (see header)  with a coat of grey and set her to work pulling the new heavy gun. 

 I think I'll reassure myself by breaking out some fictional, fantasy really, Medievals this weekend for a game of Gathering of Hosts.

However, I'm almost ready for that planned Official Memorial or In Remembrance game so Great War painting will continue. I just need to finish the British limber that I'm working on, 16 more British and Indian infantry and another MG.  After that I'm going to get less serious, bring back a bit more color and spend more time in Atlantica.

The last appearance of the big plastic gun before its transformation.

In the meantime, I thought some might like to know how the new heavy howitzer came to be. It began as a cheap, oversized,  dollar store gun obviously based on the Crescent WW1 gun. I picked several up in the late 90's and haven't seen them since. I used to use them with my 54's but this, the last ot its kind unless cupboard archeology comes through, is sufficiently bigger than my metal 18pdrs that it won't serve as a field gun beside them. I decided to use it as a basis for the heavy howitzer by turning the barrel upside down and shortening it, then swapping the trail for one cut from an even cheaper and more common Marx howitzer ripoff. Voilà!

Now I'm wondering where to get more of the big guns!