Cannon Ball Stacks

 

Cannon Ball Stack

Now I know that there are a lot of gamers out there that like their gaming table to be neat and tidy. I must admit that I am one of them gamers, but I have never seen my idea at any wargame shows or on wargaming blogs, So I hope that I am unique with this project. The idea was to show when the gun was in action or not. With the cannon ball stacks by the gun means that it is in action or without the stacks, the gun was damaged or out of action. Way back in the mid to late 70s, I made some small cannon ball stacks for my artillery. At that time I did not have many guns, so I made just the five to scatter around the table. 

Old stacks

These were made of old finishing lead weights which was given to me back in the 70’s from someone that gave up fishing. I came across these some time ago, while I was looking through my wargaming cupboard and thought that while my painting mojo is dry, that it might get me back into my hobby by doing some small projects that I have in mind. 

Ola and New ones based

As you are unable to get the old lead weights now, due to the lead poisoning, I purchased some 3mm metal spacer beads from a craft shop while on holiday last year. These are just the right size and here they are all glued with PVA on their 20mm MDF bases. Once based and painted and flocked, they really came out well for my scatter terrain. Now I can use bigger beads for the howitzers.

All finished