USMRR gun car build, this may be treasonous...Hehehehehe
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Captured Federal Equipment.
As far as I know, less than a handful of actual photographs exist that contain images of rail road guns. Some drawings or artistic renditions were published in various newspapers of the day, such as Colliers, The London Illustrated News and Harper's Weekly. A baffling variety of written descriptions can be found scattered here and there in official and unofficial reports. Our language has changed over the past 150 years and the poetic usage of the written word that was once so common, is now lost. Verbose wording and flowery passages are relics today. Trying to decipher just what mental image they were trying to form in the readers mind is virtually impossible. Thus we are left using "modelers license" in our work, just as a writer uses "poetic license" for their odes.
Once again, the drawing from Ed Alexander's "Civil War Railroads & Models"
Photo from the Library Of Congress
Model by me.
I was "scolded by the previously mentioned "rivet counter" over my use of the color Blue on this car. My reasoning first is this; It's my model and I can damned well paint it PINK! Manners would of course dictate, "If You Can't Say Something Nice... Keep your fucking mouth shut."
My reasoning for Blue... The articles I read say that the basic Artillery Unit color was Red back then. Yep, I know, but Red would show as a darker stripe, NOT lighter. I chose Blue (despite Blue being the color of Infantry Units) to signify it as the Federal (Blue) Army color. The car that can be seen in the photo shows the body stripe a lighter color than the body (Green Ochre). Green Ochre was the standard color for artillery caissons and limbers. I used Olive Drab because...That's what I had in my paint box.
Both car sides have operating embrasure covers
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