Strelets – 182 – 30pdr Parrott Rifle with US Crew

Description:

30pdr Parrott Rifle with US Crew

Unpainted plastic soldiers in 1/72 scale depicting an American Civil War 30pdr Parrott rifled gun used by the Union.

Box contains 21 figures in 7 poses and 3 guns. 7 different poses as crew per gun, is a quite generous offer, and 3 guns in total allows to set up a nice battery with just one box. In our opinion the crew is good enough, it can always be better, but the figures are good enough to us, as well as the poses are.

Sadly the guns themselves are not very well engineered here, a sort of nightmare to place together, with a number of strange faults (no trunnions and no cascabel, but they appear to be on the sprue, but glue such things in soft plastic, is a real nightmare). Together with the not so common use of the 30pdr as field gun (a 20pdr would have been better) or the 30pdr in a siege carriage would have been a nice addition too, makes this model not so desirable to own.

A good idea, not well executed, many users who purchased this set might be annoyed by the set up of the gun.