Deploy the Gun

The Milita have been called out for exercises.  These are Imex, and Eagle Games figures, some with head swaps.

The artillery unit has only one gun and enough crewmen so that some can handle supplies or provide infantry cover.

The men wear kepis and the officer wears a floppy hat.

The steam tractor team.
 

Militia Gun

The people of the United States have a right to keep and bear arms in our Constitution.

Until the 1930s that essentially allowed almost anyone to own almost any kind of weapons they wanted.

Local militias often had all sorts of weapons, including artillery.  This militia unit has one gun and one steam powered towing tractor.

Artillery development was very fast in the 1890s and sales were good.

Local militia units, and even National Guard units had all sorts of uniforms, even those that were rather retro for the American Civil War and American Revolution. 

My artillery usually gets a store of supplies as an ammo dump.  This one is mounted on a sheet of plastic and flocked with Woodland Scenics grass.
 

Figures Want List

 Every few years I update my list of 1/72nd scale soft plastic figures that I would like to buy.

 

 I spend a lot of time doing head swaps and other conversion tasks to make figures that I can't get otherwise.

Once in a while I like to publish my "Want List" of 1/72nd scale soft plastic figures. Redbox tried to do the cops and robbers on my list, but I am not satisfied with their efforts, but they would be a good starting point for anyone else doing them.

This is my present list. Please add your comments to suggest future figures you would like to see.

Cold War/ Cuban Missile Crisis 1963
US Army Infantry
M-14 rifles, M-1919A6 light machine gun

World War Two

US Navy UDT Frogmen Divers & Hard Hat Divers
Swimming trunks, with flippers, mask, snorkel, demolition charges, knife, small assault team with Thompson submachine guns, Colt .45 and M1 Carbines, Hard hat divers with hammer, wrench, knife, cutting torch

US Navy Landing Party For Raiding and Amphibious Landing Control
Helmets, and Sailor hats, Thompson submachine guns, Colt .45, Springfield rifles, demolitions charges, signal flags, ship to shore radio, Aldis lamp, Officers with maps and binoculars.

Dutch Infantry, European and Far East, Pacific

Interwar Adventures
Spies, secret police, espionage people
Fedora hats, trench coats, cameras, pistols, submachine guns, male and female, German, British, American, and Soviet

Oilfield and Construction Workers
Hard hats, jump suits, shovels, picks, axes, transits and surveyors, big hammers and wrenches and jackhammers and toolboxes, wheelbarrows.
Scientists and Archaeologists and Paleontologists and Hunters
Pith helmets, fedora hats, bare headed, male and female, kneeling with brushes, dental picks, working with test tubes and chemical glasses, microscopes, cameras, guns.

1920’s American Roaring 20’s Gangsters, Police & Citizens
Police with revolvers, Thompson submachine guns, shotguns, Browning Automatic Rifles, Colt .45 pistol, Gangsters with Thompsons, sawed off shotguns, various handguns, male and female and citizens with double barrel shotguns, and walking, running.

American Civil War
US Navy Sailors Naval Landing Party

Schneider Gun

Schneider 75mm gun.

Guns like this were sold all over the world.

I only got one from BUM I think, it was in a collection I got.

I decided to paint it up as a US Army, militia gun.

It is not a great model, but it painted up okay.

I used the colors popular for US Army weapons at the end of the 1800's.

It looks a lot like most WWI era guns.

As far as I know, it was never used by the US Army.

However, civilians, and local militas could purchase their own.