Princess P'trysha of Collysh's Lifeguard Infantry Regimental Cannon Company

Princess P'trysha, being a forward thinking young dyna, and an avid reader of the Crymuster Defense Quarterly, in order to keep abreast of the latest in military theory, decided that her regiment needed it's own organic fire support and declared that a Regimental Cannon Company would be formed, composed of the smarter rhyflers who could do math and calculate trajectories.

Each squad consisted of two cannon. Two squads to a section and two sections to the company. No. 4 Section would have two 76mm howitzers instead of the 55mm field guns. 

To set them apart from the pink coated rhyfle companies, the gunners got purple coats with pink facings and a double row of brass buttons and their bicornes sport pink plumes. The figures are Tolly-Maeryn gun crew with Gwynt heads. The gun is a reduced scale French 75mm. I wanted little and whimsically cute.

The gunners seats obviously are shrunk as well, so one made a nice perch for a curious squirrel, who's just arrived with the latest Fire Mission Orders.

I painted two extra with open hands in case they need to crew a fortress gun. I still have ideas to build a small First World War style fort. Or I could paint a second field gun or convert one into a howitzer as well, I suppose.

While I was splashing purple paint around I did the dismounted tractor crew that came with the official Gwynt Aerfen tractor.

Their tractor coveralls are in cavalry purple. Once the cavalry is released, those troopers will sport purple coats and pink trousers in reverse of the infantry. Naturally their lance pennons will be pink over purple.

This figure is a dyna, as you can tell by the slightly bigger hips and bust. The Princess would definitely be in favour of dynas joining the ranks of the Lifeguard, especially in dangerous but cleverly technical tasks such as tractor crew.

As you've no doubt noticed the uniform schemes are very influenced by Napoleonic uniforms. I was certainly thinking about British and French horse artillery when painting the gunners.