Victrix 28mm Napoleonic British Royal Foot Artillery - a review and painted example (WA Oct. entry)

This video review of the Victrix plastic 28mm British Royal Foot Artillery shows off the sprue and build options, plus offers a look at a painted example gun and crew. Hope to be back with a guide to painting a crewman soon!
My October entry for the Wargamers Anonymous painting challenge - sneaking in on the 31st of the month! Check out the channel here: / brutaldeleux

[@maryhinge6334]

Looks like a nice set. Thanks for showing it off. Nice paint job on the figures too. 👍

[@CullodenPaintingStudio]

Thanks buddy

[@leont66wargaming31]

great review mate

[@CullodenPaintingStudio]

Cheers buddy!

[@basicminiaturepainting]

Very nice review mate

[@CullodenPaintingStudio]

Thanks bud.

[@TheGamingLoft22]

Nicely done, thanks!

[@CullodenPaintingStudio]

Glad you like the video

[@lmmodellismomilitare]

Really nice video. Thank you

[@CullodenPaintingStudio]

Thanks!

[@philRminiatures]

Wonderful looking artillery and crew, great job...and new sub!

[@CullodenPaintingStudio]

Thanks Phil!

[@Roll-Some-Dice]

Excellent work, I’ve recently started a British Napoleonic army and have watched a number of your videos. I wondered if you could post what paints you used for the cannon and more particularly the blue wood work?

[@CullodenPaintingStudio]

Sure. I primed the cannon with Army Painter Wolf Grey, picked out the ironwork with Vallejo Model Color Black Grey. The barrel is Vallejo Model Color Bronze. I washed the carriage with Army Painter Dark Tone and drybrushed with old GW Space Wolves Grey. Vallejo Game Color Wolf Grey is a modern equivalent. The barrel was washed with Army Painter Strong Tone and drybrushed Vallejo Model Color Brass.

[@Roll-Some-Dice]

That’s brilliant thanks for sharing 👍

[@e-4airman124]

thank you

[@bonysminiatures3123]

very nice indeed

[@CullodenPaintingStudio]

Cheers!

[@whilehobbying]

Excellent!

[@CullodenPaintingStudio]

Cheers!

[@user-mc4sq3fk5d]

May I ask what colors you used for the gun carriage? Looks great.

[@CullodenPaintingStudio]

I primed the cannon with Army Painter Wolf Grey, picked out the ironwork with Vallejo Model Color Black Grey. The barrel is Vallejo Model Color Bronze. I washed the carriage with Army Painter Dark Tone and drybrushed with old GW Space Wolves Grey. Vallejo Game Color Wolf Grey is a modern equivalent. The barrel was washed with Army Painter Strong Tone and drybrushed Vallejo Model Color Brass.

[@user-mc4sq3fk5d]

Thank you. After posting the question I did some research and found AP Wolf Grey primer. Thank you for confirming that. For one or two pieces I’m not sure a can is worth it so perhaps just the bottle. Great work!

[@CullodenPaintingStudio]

@@user-mc4sq3fk5d You're welcome.

[@johnwayneeverett6263]

GREAT STUFF Thank you..

[@CullodenPaintingStudio]

Glad you like it.

[@simonbishop4160]

I think the wheel diameter dimensions of the artillery are slightly too large for actual scale. Not an expert on Napoleonic British Foot Artillery but I suspect this is a minor issue. See Perry Miniatures metal Foot and contemporary paintings & drawings of said guns. But overall a very nice set. Victrix overall do very nice accurate figures and the figures themselves in this set are very nicely done. I like the variety of the set overall and I don't regret getting them myself either. Nice video

[@CullodenPaintingStudio]

Thanks. The size of gun carriages and the like does vary between manufacturers. My Front Rank french carriages are super chunky! I guess I see mine as playing pieces rather than scale models so I'm easy!

[@simonbishop4160]

@@CullodenPaintingStudio Had another look in detail at the Guns for British foot artillery and there is a British Napoleonic 9 pounder gun in the Royal Artillery museum at Woolwich with what appears slightly larger wheels than the Royal Horse Artillery 9 pounder limber wheels. So Victrix may not be out of scale after all ?

[@joelshort2907]

You mentioned the difficulty of magnetising the gun itself - would it be possible to magnetise the gun-and-carriage section as a whole, so you have the gun and its immediate carrier as one piece, then the rest of the carriage - axle, ammo boxes, trail - as a separate one?

[@CullodenPaintingStudio]

Hmm, now that I think about it, gluing the carrier to the barrel, and magnetising the barrel and carriage would work. Might give it a try when I do another gun.