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Randy Henderson contacted me about using the wheels of my cannon for the limber he was building, and he kindly let me put it on my site as Freestuff, to go with the cannon. It is a very nice limber, which is the two wheel cart that pulled the gun, and had a chest for shot and shell. We don't actually have a caisson yet, but as the song does't go "As the cannons, hooked to the limbers, go rolling along...", we had to do the best we could. The caisson, when we get one, will also hooked to Randy's limber. Civil war artillery was very, very well thought out, when a battery galloped into action they were often on the front line, next to the riflemen, and the smooth-bore Napoleon didn't greatly outrange the rifles. No time for thinking, load double canister, range point-blank, level the tube, FIRE! If counter-battery broke your wheels you would steal one from a caisson (they were all the same), If you lost your limber's horses (they weren't any more shot-proof than the men) you would do the same. If thing go unbearable you would limber up, and make a orderly withdraw! ;-)

Thank you. I don't know if you know, but your link to SkinSuit Texture Set is not working.

Hi numanoid!- Opps, no I didn't, I'm fixing that right now.

now for the Parrot rifle, and the mortars..;)

I actually have a Parrott / 6 Pounder combo, it was in one of the Renderosity Mag CDs. It is set up with switching geometry so the iron Parrott tube switches with the brass smoothbore, pretty trick, I though. They are on the every-popular 6 pounder carrage, which is slightly smaller than the one the Napoleon used (same wheels and limber, though). If enough people beg me I'll make it available again. I realise (of course) not many people put Civil War artillery in their renders, but maybe they should, they are nice models. ;-)

I'm begging. How many people do you need to have begging. I have some spare cash and rent-a-crowd has a special on this week.

Ha!- Email me and I send you a copy. jimburton@comcast.net

E-mail sent, with a little thingie attached for your veiwing pleasure. (or displeasure, lol)