Bavarian 1st Artillery Regiment, Foot Batteries
The foot gunners of the 1st Artillery Regiment are organised into crew units of 6 figures per model gun, with 4 individually based gunners plus 2 drivers fixed-into-position on a separate limber model. A model gun plus crew plus limber represents two batteries.
The gun crew are converted from Eagle of Empires Bavarian Infantry, including surplus drummers and flag bearers. As infantry converted into walking (as opposed to riding) gunners, they have kept their backpacks, though in reality these were probably transported on limbers or wagons as the gunners manhandled or otherwise walked alongside their guns. On the wargaming tabletop, the presence of the backpacks helps distinguish foot batteries from riding batteries.
Officers, sergeants and drivers were mounted and therefore wore riding breeches; other than the drivers, the Other Ranks walked; the uniform was dark blue with yellow buttons and piping was red with black collar and cuffs; instead of shoulder wings the tunics had epaulettes with yellow scales; officers and sergeants had swords; rifles were withdrawn pre-FPW but many were acquired on an unofficial basis and might have been reissued post-FPW; in 1870, red short plumes had been removed from helmets due to the Bavarians gunners being confused with their French opposition.
The 6-pounder medium gun (a FPW Prussian model by Perry Miniatures) with limber:
Note that the integral trail spike has been omitted from the gun model, as it was considered a table-top impediment (ie, likely to catch against other figures).
A selection of gun crew figures (from left to right = firing lanyard, barrel swab, sighting with binoculars, officer, trail spike, water bucket):
The officer compared to other converted infantry versions of the same figure:
The four-horse limber is converted from a Bavarian Napoleonic model by Perry Miniatures:
