Little Big Guns Never Tire (Part 2)

Big bada_boom! - but with five barrels blasting off simultaneously. 

"Let 'em get a bit closer..."

Yes,  a classic Organ Gun from the early 1990s. I prefer this version over the plastic kit.  Even though it is mostly wooden versus the current solid metal style.  It just has more character and has a cool feel to it. Also, unlike the cannons, I  felt that I could paint the the wooden areas to match the army's color. 

Painted wood. 

I like it like the,, but I thought it needed something more. While digging around in one of my old catalogs the (2004-2005 to be specific) I was thrilled and inspired upon spotting this picture: 

Hats off for Colin Dixon!

It's Colin Dixon's version of this classic Organ Gun with a banner top added to the front of it. And it just so happened I had that piece as well. I just had to copy this simple conversion. Also, hats off to Mr. Dixon for basing his war machine way back then. I always thought the war machines looked better on bases and I was glad to see The Old World game* move forward with this. 

Banner top added with copper basecoat.

I also like the gold trim he used as well, and decided that the warm copper/gold color looks more striking than the cold color of the pewter/silver. 

These next two pictures show one of the crew half-way through with being painted. In particular I wanted to show off the Wyldwood Contrast Paint on the barrel. It looks great and I don't think i will ever go back to...whatever I was doing to get a worked wood effect before. Wyldwood wins it!

Once I was done with the artillery piece, I enhanced the gun barrels using Abaddon Black. 

After this came the grass tufts to finish the whole thing off. 

Backsides. 

Yes, I do like how this turned out. The crewman waiving the helm around has a stripped outfit but everything I attempted to paint those stripes I hated the results. So ultimately I just kept his outfit a single color. 

And that's it really. Now I just need to get this thing into action! 

"Cheerio!"