My other trial purchase from 3D printing Valley were these lovely artillery horse limbers.
I have long regretted not buying more of the Battlefront horse carts when they were in production, and I've struggled to find suitable limbers for twentieth-century artillery at a price I'm willing to pay.
These models fit the bill perfectly though. I just ordered three of them to start with to see how I got on with them.
Like the British radio truck, these are resin prints. Unlike the truck they are multi-part models and again clearly designed with 1/56th in mind. They are quite chunky models, so they scale down to 1/100th fine but I expect they would look a bit goofy in larger scales. They have seven parts - trailer, axle, 2 x wheels, 2 x horses, limber pole, but they all went together fine. The horses (mercifully) have Airfix style holes in their bodies for the tow pole and the wheels fitted on the axles without any trimming required.
As the are resin 3D the detail is exquisite, as good as injection moulded plastic and way better than blobby metal or grainy APL. In 1/100th scale, these could easily be printed with a far smaller number of parts, but they weren't too onerous to assemble.
I did a pretty basic and generic paint job, A sort of dark, dirty green for the limber with a tan cover and wheel rims picked out in gunmetal. The horses I did in different shades of brown, then the tack in dark leather and gave the whole thing an ink wash. I then picked out the manes, tails and added some white socks.
These should be good for most combatants, at least from a distance, as unlike 6mm, I'm not doing loads of different coloured limbers. They will also be reasonable standins for light supply carts. I've ordered nine more to join my existing collection of horse drawn transport.
