Too late for the second door - French horse artillery

The last three days I spent with my friend Alfred in Lampertheim. We organized a figure exhebition there. Photos of this will be on one of the next posts..

Here as 2nd to 6th door of my Christmas Calender the next four new sets from Frank Ziegler. Available very soon in our shop. Now you can build every pose of loading and firing a gun. 

Artillery a Cheval in 1800

https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/collections/id_619/?per_page=50&page=499

These were very helpful illustrations to avoid the silly “artillery ballet” often criticized with figure sets. But, to be honest, I made some compromises to create these sets. There are three sets of six which each form a drill for a gun; in addition there are sets of 3 with further drills, with which the sets of 6 can be extended with changing some figures. Within these sets, of course, I also have characters that interact with each other; or poses, frozen in their free movement. There is a gunner with his bag for the cartridges running, or a gunner signaling with his hand, and I plan some wounded gunners too. Of course this does not comply with the strict drill.
Another example is the gunner kneeling down at the coffret, I must confess, he should actually standing at the limber, where the coffret were used to stand on. Unfortunately this information came a little too late. So I have modeled for a correct situation representation a pair of powderhandlers, handing over a cartridge according to regulations.
 

With each set there will be added some tools like spikes, sponge-rammers and buckets too.