Artillery Park: Ammunition Wagons

I've already shown an ammunition wagon in a previous post, but I've improved the model so here we go again.

As their name indicates, ammunition wagons were used to transport ammunition for the artillery guns or even cartridges for the artillery or the infantry's rifles, or sometimes even used to transport paraphernalia, various tools or spare parts.

Although a gun could already fire a few rounds even if an ammunition wagon wasn't available yet (because with each gun was carried a small chest containing a small number of cannon balls), theoretically, several ammunition wagons would be assigned to a single gun on the battlefield and while the guns were being fired by the artillerymen, behind them a constant back and forth of ammunition wagons bringing rounds from the rear's depots would ensure that the cannons were fed as many rounds as were needed.

My ammunition wagons can contain each 18 rounds (against only 6 in the chest being carried with a gun).

On one side of the wagon was fixed a pickaxe and a shovel on the other. In the rear could be carried a spare wheel (either a small one for the front wheels like on my models or a larger one for the rear wheels). These spare wheels could be used for the wagon itself or of course for any other vehicle that might need it.

Underneath the wagon is a chain which is used to secure one of the rear wheels as a very basic brake to prevent the parked vehicle from rolling away.