The village pump

This week I've been working on some vignettes for our Napoleonic games, Front Rank have some lovely stuff in their Napoleonic Civilians range.

The water pump set is a nice little kit with the pump, trough, a chap pumping away and a couple of ladies. I used one of them for this vignette, more on the other in a future post.

The guy operating the pump and the lady with the jug are from this set while the mounted chap is from one of the other packs, he gives the piece a nice bit of height.

Once it was painted, I built up the flow of water over a couple of days by adding PVA (Elmers) glue drop by drop, adding a new bit once the previous one had sufficiently dried, the water in the bottom of the trough is also PVA glue.

The base is a small vehicle base from Warbases, I quite like the irregular shape of these and plan to use more of these in the future for such things.

 This will make a nice addition to our Sharpe Practice games, there is always somebody who needs a drink or to clean off after a "Damned dog!" event.