I was casually searching for useful bits for the Silver Bayonet and found that Warbases do a Napoleonic Wagon pack for Sharp Practice, which includes a carriage, an engineers wagon, a water wagon and an ammunition wagon. All MDF with some card as that’s their bag, but with some resin bits for the water wagon and engineers wagon.
This is the carriage, apparently it’s a Clarence carriage which is from the 1820’s, but looks close enough for my liking.
It was a little tricky, but I think it would be worth doing another having learnt lessons. I used some corrugated card to fill the windows and save doing the interior, hey presto curtains for added mystery. The kit has holes for carriage lamps, but didn’t come with lamps, so I cobbled together some from plasticard.
Yellow seemed apt and lashings of mud to hide the MDFness of the kit.
I’m happy with it and might do another down the line. I have some horses for it, but want to find some dead ones as well.
The engineers wagon is just MDF, with a resin cargo load. Very straight forward build. Nothing exciting, I kept the load separate to vary stuff up a bit. And more mud.
The water wagon is a bit poo unfortunately. The resin barrel isn’t great, the build is meh, the axles broke while building due to the nesting cut being too snug. I built it and didn’t bother after. I’ve not attempted the ammunition wagon, but will. I will get another carriage and engineers wagon at some point.
Warbases also do some carriage horses and draft horses with appropriate tack which I have and will need to get round to when I have some dead ‘uns. They also do a pair of Napoleonic drivers, but the carriage is the only one with a seat and they don’t fit on it, so not sure what they’re for. The horses are good, but skip the drivers if tempted.
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