HaT Gatling Gun

The Gatling gun being crewed by the British soldiers, shown with my sample soldier for scale.

The British Army troops in this set are very good, size wise, and fit their Colonial sets perfectly.

Here is the gun in an outdoor setting.

The gun looks good with terrain around it. Highly recommended.

HaT Gun in Action

These figures are very nicely detailed. For those who paint their figures, this boldness of the details will make painting easier.

The gunner on the left and a man tending the gun or perhaps even moving the wagon wheel.

I like the officer with his revolver drawn. It give the impression that the enemy is very close.

The dispatch case in well done on the officer too.

The crew interact well with the gun. HaT British Colonial Gatling Gun, 1/72nd scale soft plastic.

HaT Gatling Gun

The HaT Gatling gun. The Gatling gun was first used in the American Civil War and was an American invention. They were not used much in combat by American troops, but were in the inventory in various configurations for about fifty years.

This is a British version, but other than the magazine, not much different from those used by the American Army. This gun could be used with Airfix WWI Americans to make pretty good US Army troops for the Spanish American War.

Turn the crank and let the bullets fly.

Here the heliograph man stands ready to send a message. Well, kneels ready to send a message.

A heliograph can send a message for thirty miles or more, instant communication, long before radio.

HaT Gat

HaT now makes a British Colonial Gatling Gun. It is 1/72nd scale, soft plastic.

The box contains four sprues, one gun and crew on each sprue. A good value.

There are two kinds of magazines, one is a stick magazine, the other is sort of a barrel.

The man with the little tripod device is a heliograph. They used it to reflect the sun and send Morse code type messages over long distances, only in the daytime, and only in good weather. The soldier with the telescope can be used to read those messages, or to observe for enemies at a distance.

While the model does not take glue well, it fits together just fine. The man who looks like he is riding a horse, fits over the trail of the gun as the firer. Many armies of the late 1800s wore essentially this uniform and used Gatling guns. You could probably find forces not unlike this right up to the first year or so of the Second World War in some parts of the world.