British Royal Horse Artillery - Napoleonic Wars

The Royal Horse Artillery was formed i n 1793. It had seven troops (or 'brigades" by 1801, and twelve by 1812. Each troop had six guns, usually 1 howitzer and 5 guns (6lbers or 9lbers); there was one troop equipped exclusively with howitzers. The uniforms of the Horse Artillery changed little from 1799 on, resembling the pre-1812 Light dragoon uniform.

My first troop of RHA; this unit is equipped with 9lber guns.

The artillery models are by Foundry; there is casting flaw in the muzzle of one of the guns. 

The crew are 28mm Old Glory figures.

  

My second troop has one 6 lber and one howitzer gun model each. 

I like having some howitzer models, plus the howitzers allow me increased flexibility for 9 or 6 lber batteries depending upon where the howitzers are assigned. 

I painted the gun carriages Delta Ceramcoat  Wedgewood Blue (a light blue-grey color), washed with Payne's grey, which has a bit of bluish cast as well. Still, the carriages are not quite as blue as they look in the above photo. 

This third troop has all 6 lber gun models.

British long field guns had the "block trail" construction, which lightened the carriages and increased the mobility of the guns. 

This time I painted the rims of the wheels mud-brown color, as some have suggested.

Here are all three troops; I actually painted 8 gun models at the same time; the surplus will be assigned to the Foot artillery when their time for painting comes!

The six guns here would make a 1:1 battery, except that it would have a total of 108 crew and 84 drivers!. 

A few additional colors used:
Braid on jackets: CC Straw Pale mixed 2:1 with CC yellow
Pants: Bridgeport Grey washed with Charcoal about 1:4 dilution.

That brings my British Napoleonic forces so far to 7 Line Infantry, 1 Light Infantry, 1 Light Dragoon, 1 Hussar, and 3 troops of RHA. Getting there!

Peter