Bringing the Gun In by Michael_C
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Description
In 1862, General Robert E. Lee had a 32-pounder gun mounted on a rail car to impede the Union army advance on Richmond. This image imagines the railway gun car being pushed up the Richmond and York River Line to engage the advancing army. The gunnery officer talks to the gun crew.
The gun car is my interpretation of the Lee-Brooke Railway Car. The locomotive and tender are modified from the Vanishing Point General and the cars after the tender are DryJack's Cattle Wagon and Plank Wagon. The gun crew and engineer are M4 with Shenandoah Confederate uniforms. The track is from my Lee-Brooke car. The environment is from DryJack's Railway Cutting populated with RDNA Shrubs, and the Maple Tree Pack and Orestes Trees from DAZ. The sky is one of my own photos and the crows are from Hivewire 3D's Flock Formations.
The scene was composed and rendered in Poser 11 Pro and then composited in Corel Photo Paint.
Comments (3)
giulband
Beautiful historical reconstruction !!
T.Rex
Well done construction and image. What I'm wondering is, did it ever come to its intended use? Nice history, though. Keep up the good work! :-)
Michael_C
It apparently was, although the evidence is fragmentary. There are some thoughts on this page: https://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2012/06/29/railway-arty-savage-station/
mazzam
Fine image, and an interesting subject in military history.