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15mm Chinese Completed - Part 24 Yuan Artillery

With this blog entry I can honestly say I have finally completed the Chinese Army project I started in May 2020. It seemed like it would never end & only started because in 2019 I had a Late T'ang Army & ended up buying two other Heinz Chinese Armies from EBay from the same seller. This allowed me to create a Chinese collection spanning from the Three Kingdoms, Northern & Southern, Sui, T'ang, Sung & Yuan Dynasties covering 220 AD to 1368 AD.

I still need to paint up some more Mongol & the Khitan Liao allies for some of the dynasties but to all intents I have completed the Chinese parts. The Yuan were early adopters of Black Powder Artillery but they were very small pieces compared to the later Ming guns which is why I decided to use 10mm scale guns instead of later era pieces.

10mm Kallistra H-7008 Bombards & Essex CHN20 Chin Chinese Artillerymen

10mm Kallistra H-7007 Field Guns & Essex CHN20 Chin Chinese Artillerymen

Chariot HDC6 Han Chinese Archers good for N&S Dynasty Archers on new bases

Leftover N&S Dynasty Archers rebased as Psiloi

Essex SUA8 Sung Chinese Archers on new bases

Unknowm Code Essex "Chinese" Archers on new bases

This now brings the painting tally for 1st January to 20th May 2021 to:

205 foot, 8 artillery & 4 war drums [67 elements]

154 cavalry [49 elements]

12 Bamboo & Paper Lions [8 elements]

3 elephants [3 elements]

Plus I have rebased

32 elements of Pikes

28 elements of Archers

8 elements of Psiloi

50 mounted elements

Here comes the Chinese Artillery

After deciding that I am modelling Three Kingdoms, Northern & Southern Dynasties, Sung, Sui, T'ang and Yuan I needed to ensure I have sufficient artillery pieces to cover all the bases. I also ended up buying far too many artillery pieces as a result of wanting some variety.

I used mostly Essex artillery crew with the models.

Some of these are surplus to requirements and will be sold off in due course and you will notice I decided to ensure they were all compatible with the artillery I painted earlier for my T'ang Chinese.

3D printed Giant Bolt Shooter from Thingiverse with Khurosan Artillery Crew

The Khurasan crew were totally incompatible with the size of the bolts on their artillery model so I swopped them around to use with the 3D printed Bolt Shooters.