"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

After completing the second of the three planned Hanoverian infantry regiments, Jung Zastrow, my attention turned next to these two 6lb guns and crew. As with the infantry these are all from Front Rank via Gripping Beast. 

Sadly there are no dedicated Hanoverian figures for the crew, just generic British artillerymen are listed, so they are missing pompoms and adornment from the tricorns and have coat lace where there should be none. But, hey, these are toys in a game seen usually at playing distance and the colours alone will signify that they are Hanoverians. The facing colours on the uniforms and the paint job on the gun carriages are described in sources as Red Lead, so I used Foundry Madder Red Shade for the base and dry brushed it with the same British Redcoat Mid shade. I think it looks about right. The ironwork on the pieces was historically painted black but I've always painted mine gunmetal down the years and highlighted it lightly with a metal colour like Spearpoint or Bright Steel. 

Anyway, all that aside, here are the latest toys in my game ~

Next to march smartly across my painting desk are a mounted general accompanied by two officers on foot to provide the command for my small Hanoverian contingent. Finally, the title of this post? Well, it comes with apologies to one Private Baldrick of Black Added Goes Forth fame of course.