BOOM! ROMANIAN ARTILLERY RUSSO TURKISH WAR

Outpost Wargame Service Russo Turkish Russian Artillerists Painted as Romanians

Greetings fellow shut-ins!  In this post, I report the completion of the penultimate step in my pandemic project: the Artillery of my Russo-Turkish War era Romanian contingent. These follow from the Cavalry, the Dorobanti Infantry, the Chassuers, and the Line Infantry.  I am now starting in on the last bit, the command, but that is for another post, dear readers.  This post is about the artillery. Once again, I stuck with the Outpost Wargame service Russo Turkish War figures.  Although they have a line of Romanians they do not include specialized artillery figures.  Instead, they suggest that you use their Russians, whose ordnance and uniforms were virtually the same aside from color (Russians being in their characteristic green). Good enough for me! Here is my study of how I did these figs (as usual, you may clix pix for BIG PIX):

At first I was skeptical of the poses, of how the fellow pulling the lanyard in particular would come across, but once you put them all together the effect is very dynamic. 

 The gunners, sans-ordnance for easier inspection. 

 To get the red-0n-blue piping on the kepi to stand out, I underpainted it in white (a tip for anyone out there who shares my mania and who doesn't mind doing something twice).

 Outpost gun model (right) next to a Foundry Franco-Prussian War 9cm Krupp. The gun model is one order of magnitude larger than others in this scale, a not infrequent thing with gun models. Nevertheless, I found that these larger models look correctly sized in relation to the Outpost gunners.  

The Romanian Artillery Park at Firing Practice.

Excelsior!