Post by loyalist on Sept 27, 2016 1:48:18 GMT
I wanted a different field gun model for my Canadians, who'd been getting advanced technological info from their British allies for years before the second Martian invasion. Having virtually no access to Imperial tanks, especially the coil gun version, the Canadians decided to build a field gun version of the 1 pdr coil gun to bolster their artillery. The Canadian army is increasingly using gasoline powered tanks (based on a British design that preceded the current Imperial/Lloyd/Cardigan chassis) as Transports for infantry and supplies, and as gun tows. A gasoline powered tank carries the crew of the coil gun and a generator to power the gun. For that reason it must remain stationary next to the deployed gun to power it via cables from the on-board generator.
The conversion was my third using the excellent Ironclad Miniatures Faraday Electric Gun. Although a 28mm model it looks great as a large field gun for AQ, though not nearly as big as an AQ heavy field gun. I cut the small tip off the Faraday gun's barrel, leaving the breech and coil, and cut the coil off the barrel of a spare Imperial tank coil gun. The remaining tank gun barrel was too long for the field gun. It was gradually shortened until it 'looked right', then glued into a 7/64" hole drilled in the end of the Faraday gun's barrel with 3/4" of tank gun barrel showing. The model looks quite nice both under tow by an S2G British Transport tank and deployed with a Blue Moon artillery crew.
For crews each deployed gun has the 3 figures with helmets from the BM American heavy trench mortar pack and a 4th figure with helmet from the British heavy trench mortar pack (each of which has 3 different helmeted figs.). AQ American or BEF artillery crew would work fine but I didn't have enough spare figures. Mixing AQ American and BM artillery crew figs didn't work well imo due to the obvious difference in helmet size (BM's are larger) and the BM figures being more bulky. I'm building three 1 pdr coil guns deployed with crews and 3 being towed.
Madmorgan and I discussed the potential stats. Like the tank gun and the 2 pdr coil gun it has +4 power, but the field gun version wouldn't be much use with only 30" range. We considered that the BEF doesn't use the American ATG (30" range) because of the short range, and the converted model's coil is much larger than that on the tank gun barrel. It seemed reasonable that the field gun had increased range compared to the tank gun due to ability to fit a larger and more powerful coil. We agreed the field gun should have a 40" range (2/3 of the 2 pdr coil gun's) and gave it 2/3 the points cost of the 2 pdr (60). Like the bigger coil gun it can be bought singly.
Photos to follow.
The conversion was my third using the excellent Ironclad Miniatures Faraday Electric Gun. Although a 28mm model it looks great as a large field gun for AQ, though not nearly as big as an AQ heavy field gun. I cut the small tip off the Faraday gun's barrel, leaving the breech and coil, and cut the coil off the barrel of a spare Imperial tank coil gun. The remaining tank gun barrel was too long for the field gun. It was gradually shortened until it 'looked right', then glued into a 7/64" hole drilled in the end of the Faraday gun's barrel with 3/4" of tank gun barrel showing. The model looks quite nice both under tow by an S2G British Transport tank and deployed with a Blue Moon artillery crew.
For crews each deployed gun has the 3 figures with helmets from the BM American heavy trench mortar pack and a 4th figure with helmet from the British heavy trench mortar pack (each of which has 3 different helmeted figs.). AQ American or BEF artillery crew would work fine but I didn't have enough spare figures. Mixing AQ American and BM artillery crew figs didn't work well imo due to the obvious difference in helmet size (BM's are larger) and the BM figures being more bulky. I'm building three 1 pdr coil guns deployed with crews and 3 being towed.
Madmorgan and I discussed the potential stats. Like the tank gun and the 2 pdr coil gun it has +4 power, but the field gun version wouldn't be much use with only 30" range. We considered that the BEF doesn't use the American ATG (30" range) because of the short range, and the converted model's coil is much larger than that on the tank gun barrel. It seemed reasonable that the field gun had increased range compared to the tank gun due to ability to fit a larger and more powerful coil. We agreed the field gun should have a 40" range (2/3 of the 2 pdr coil gun's) and gave it 2/3 the points cost of the 2 pdr (60). Like the bigger coil gun it can be bought singly.
Photos to follow.