WW1 Russian Artillery ?

[Si Tyler]

All,

the WW1 Russian range has two artillery packs, one is the 76.2mm Divisional gun and the other is a pack of 122mm/152mm Howitzers.
Questions are:

• Which real guns are these two modelled on
• What guns from other ranges could also be used

I think the 76.2mm is the Putilov but the barrel appears to be twice as long so I am a bit stumped.  Help appreciated as always

[Peterem]

I know it's been a long time, but I've just seen this while researching exactly the same topic for my own Russian Civil War forces.

1) Judging from the fact that the body moulding is the same as the one in the Russo-Japanese War range, I think the 76.2mm RP4 represents the Putilov M1900 with added shield. To get the more modern and common Putilov M1902, it should be enough in this scale to shorten the barrel and maybe make another shield, although the WW2 version in the Soviet range (SV24/24a) might already have done this. I've not yet checked.

2) The 122/152mm gun seems to be the license-built 122mm Schneider M1910. I can't yet find a 152mm gun that wouldn't need quite a bit of further surgery!

3) As regards more guns from other ranges, I'm still looking. There is the British 4.5 inch Howitzer BP9, which was supplied extensively to Russia from 1916 and to the Whites in 1919. 18 Pounders were also sent in 1919. More exotically, the SCW range now has the 37mm McClean autocannon SCW171. 200 of these were supplied to Imperial Russia, they were used in WW1 and the Civil War, and lasted long enough in Soviet arsenals to be sent to Republican Spain as an anti-tank gun!

Happy to be corrected by anyone who knows more about this than I do!