Siege Mortars by Old Glory

As previously related, when browsing the Old Glory on-line catalog at the time of my last order, I discovered the listing for Siege Mortars, in ECW listing of all places! The description said they came 3 to pack, but in fact there were 4 mortars in each pack. 

They were certainly easy enough to assemble and paint up; I went for generic red/iron oxide paint for the woodwork. 

These will be used for Vauban's Wars, Eric Burgess' new siege rules, which should be released this quarter. I still have a write up to do of mt last solo playtest of the rules. 

For some reason, I have always rather liked these old black powder monstrosities, which look rather like giant flower pots. There are quite a few of them on the grounds of the Yorktown battlefield national park in Virginia. 

I didn't see any need to paint any additional crew figures for them. As all of my guns are separate from the crew bases, the mortars can just be set on an exiting crew base... seen here with some Prussian crews I had out for the last siege game. 

This way of course they can be  served by any nation I have existing crew bases for. There would be very little change in appearance of these from the mid 17th century up until almost the American Civil War, and the models could probably still be used as late as then.

    With the damned Covid-19 epidemic I am foremeost lucky to still have employment (and to NOT be working for myself any longer!). I have done a lot of painting the past month or so between some planned time off, being less  busy in the office, etc. For the next month I am working almost entirely as a Hospitalist, 4 12 hour days on, then off for 4 days.  Aside from the Covid exposure risk (I wound up already being exposed the first day, but the person was already on isolation anyway) , having 4 days off with minimal work responsibilities is like a vacation to me, and I usually work 12+ hour days anyway. Hopefully I'll get in at least one solo game when I am off the end of this week