A propos of "The guns are colored" The Armchair General is right, according to Cecil C.P. Lawson the British carriages were red or brown at the time of Marlborough and "light blue grey" thereafter, he writes (Vol. 1, page 165) that there is a set of contemporary models in the Tower of London which are painted a dark green "but that this was the original colouring is by no means certain". "Merier in one of his paintings c. 1760 shows a gun carriage and limber, these are painted a grey colour very similar to that used in the eighties" Vol. II page 187. The Hanoverian Artillery which had British uniforms and material is represented by the German artists with light blue grey gun carriages, C.F. Brauer.

But ... according to Viskovatoff the Russian gun carriages were painted "light green", at the time of Alexander the first, they had been red under Peter the first.

I do not think that the models "en the market" may be used as references: an 8 pounder could not be moved by four gunners, and that is the crew with which they are sold to the collectors, they also needed at least four horses and not two.

Even Norman Newton has sold by the thousands a Napoleon whose Chasseur uniform is adorned with the pockets of a grenadier coat!