Rel Firing Cannon Update, Rich Fisher has helped solve the mystery on the Rel firing Cannon. Also, Rich has sent photos of a Rare Rel Box. Next, I will share a link to an article on a massive war game based on the Battle of Waterloo. I will round it out with photos from Detlef and myself.
Rel Firing Cannon Update The Cannon
In my last post, I post a question on a Rel Cannon. The box listed that it contained two firing cannons. I mentioned I did not remember seeing ever seeing them. Rich Fisher came through with examples of the firing cannon. According to Rich, the firing cannons came in the following set Cavalry set, Frontier set, Indian War set, and Gray Cavalry set. Here are a firing cannon barrel and one minus it firing mechanism.Rich has seen a firing cannon in soft plastic in red. It was in a tall grey cavalry box.
Rel Gray Cavalry Box
Rich also sent photos of the Gray Cavalry box.Here is the side of the box. Here is the side of the box, today they would not be able to show the Confederate flag.
Rel Firing Cannon Update Battle of Waterloo
A group of 120 people got together to form the largest war game Battle of Waterloo. The war game had 20,000 figures representing every unit that was at the battle. The map area was 2,066 feet. You can see more at this link.
Odds and Ends
Detlef sent me this photo he did to represent 1540’s Cornando march into New Mexico. As you can see he has to mix various companies to do this scene. Here is one we have seen before conversion of Timpo solid Confederate figure. Joe changed the head and arm positions. After that, he painted the figures.
