Over the past couple of weeks I have been painting a couple of field artillery battalions. I usually do two at a time as the total numbers are quite reasonable, only 272 in total. These are now complete as shown in the photo below. Since the photo was taken they have  been placed in the display unit. These two battalions raise my total field artillery strength to 32 battalions.

The soldiers are shown above on two of the three working shelves which are built into my work station. These shelves are about the same size as the display shelves. They enable me to work on soldiers over a period of time easily as I can just slide them away after each painting session.

In terms of current equipment construction, I have started building a batch of ammunition caissons. All my artillery uses caissons for immediate combat requirements. I realise that with the real thing guns are attached direct to limbers but in my army there is a caisson between each gun and limber. In field and heavy artillery and heavy weapons battalions, additional ammunition is hauled by specialist four wheeled ammunition wagons. (A batch is due for construction shortly so will be shown in a later blog.) However in horse artillery regiments all vehicles are two wheeled to maintain cross country mobility. Therefore additional ammunition supplies are carried in double caisson units behind a limber. The current batch under construction is 60 strong. I already have 60 and need a total of 188 so will build a further 68 at some later date.