Danish Artillery - Lund 1676

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Danish Artillery - Lund 1676

Post by lewenhaupt » Sat Feb 15, 2014 8:26 am

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Before indulging myself in the painting marathon of the infantry, I thought it was time for some guns. The Danish artillery outnumbered the Swedish 4-to-1 at Lund, but this didn't discourage the Swedes. Their infantry charged the Danes in usual "Gå På" spirit, and payed the price on the butcher's bill.

More pics and info on the blog: http://www.blackpowdergames.blogspot.se

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Re: Danish Artillery - Lund 1676

Post by janner » Sat Feb 15, 2014 8:28 am

Awesome :)
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Re: Danish Artillery - Lund 1676

Post by Friedrich August I. » Sat Feb 15, 2014 9:50 am

Very nice!

I have a question about the gun barrel. Was it made of Iron hence the black colour? The picture on your blog does not show exactly if the barrel is made of unpolished bronze or of iron, rustpreserving painted black.
Any info on that?

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Re: Danish Artillery - Lund 1676

Post by lewenhaupt » Sat Feb 15, 2014 8:46 pm

Thank you very much for the kind comments.

Regarding the Iron/Bronze question.
Möinichen's paintings of the war depicts both types of barrels in field use.

The records suggests that ship artillery and the lighter field pieces would most likely be iron, while the heavier positional artillery and siege guns would be bronze.

Here I went for depiction of a lighter regimental piece in iron.
There is a great number of these in the Royal Danish Armory Museum.

I'm going there in about a fortnight, so I'll try to take some pictures of artillery, uniforms and flags of the Scanian War and Great Northern War. Will post the most interesting stuff here.

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