This product is sold as an unpainted kit. A hard copy Instruction Sheet is supplied with the kit and a digital version is also to be found on this site.

Additional Images.

1. Instruction Sheet.

2. HMS Monarch's Gatling gun team 1882.

3. A Royal Navy Gatling gun engaged at the battle of Tel El-Kebir, 1882.

THE GATLING AT TEL EL-KEBIR 1882

The 'Army and Navy Gazette' of 14 October 1882 reported the success of the Gatlings at the final battle of the Anglo-Egyptian War.

'The naval machine gun battery, consisting of six Gatlings, manned by thirty seamen, reached the position assigned to it in the English lines on September 10th and, on Tuesday, September12th, received orders to advance. They came within easy range of the Tel El-Kebir earthworks, and observed guns in front, guns to the right, guns to the left, and a living line of fire above them. Nothing daunted' the order "action front" was given, and was taken up joyously by every gun's crew. Round whisked the Gatlings, r-r-r-r-r-rum! r-r-r-r-r-run! r-r-r-r-r-rum! that hellish noise the soldier so detests in action, not for what it has done, so much as what it could do, rattled out. The parapets are swept. The embrasures are literally plugged with bullets. The flashes cease to come from them. With a cheer the bluejackets double over the dam, and dash over the parapet, only just in time to find their enemy in full retreat. That machine gun was too much for them.'

Taken from: 'Tel El-Kebir 1882, Wolseley's Conquest of Egypt, Donald Featherstone, Osprey Military, 1993.  

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