Wars End- Broadway Landing

[civilwarincolor]

This is one I did several years ago, but have never shared it here. Yesterday I went back and make several technical revisions to make it more period correct and had it reviewed by some artillery experts. Hope I got everything right!

 

[1stMN]

At first I was wondering what was in the barrel, but then I realized it was the watermark on the photo hahaha. Another great job with colorization

 

[civilwarincolor]

At first I was wondering what was in the barrel, but then I realized it was the watermark on the photo hahaha. Another great job with colorization

Thanks so much, yeah unfortunately there is a lot of image theft going on. I try to make my watermarks fairly minimal to allow you to enjoy the image, but need to keep them in to keep out the bad guys.

 

[1stMN]

Absolutely understand! It is too bad that people have to "borrow" from others without permission.

 

[civilwarincolor]

Absolutely understand! It is too bad that people have to "borrow" from others without permission.

Yeah borrowing is one thing, there are people that have downloaded someone else's work and then offer it for sale! Zuzah showed me several on eBay where people are offering his and a few other image belonging to other colorization artists and selling prints from them! eBay won't stop them unless you have paid the fees to have the copyrighted by the LOC. The current cost for filing a copyright is $105. You can file a copyright for each image or for them as a collection (like in a photo album) the problem is though that if you update an image you are only covered for what was copyright before, so the revision needs it's own copyright.

While technically myself and the others doing this work are "protected" and don't need a copyright we must have one in order to file a lawsuit. With the number of images I do I would need to be either paying the $105 for every image or every couple of weeks/months doing a group one for the stuff I have done recently. At this point the watermarks have worked fairly well for me and kept me from having to pay so many fees.

Sad, sad world that we need to do that.

 

[jackt62]

Love how you do that colorization!

 

[7th Texas Mounted Rifles]

Awesome work!
I dig the colorized images that feature artillery.

 

[civilwarincolor]

Love how you do that colorization!

Thanks so much.

Awesome work!
I dig the colorized images that feature artillery.

Thank you, I have a special section just for artillery images here on my site, enjoy!

 

[1stMN]

Yeah borrowing is one thing, there are people that have downloaded someone else's work and then offer it for sale!

I meant more of the five finger discount "borrow" hehe. Yeah to take someone else's work and put it up for sale is absolutely bogus. It is too bad that it is so expensive to copyright a photo. Watermarks do do a nice job though

 

[18thVirginia]

I like it a lot.

 

[donna]

Just saw this. Great work.

 

[civilwarincolor]

I meant more of the five finger discount "borrow" hehe. Yeah to take someone else's work and put it up for sale is absolutely bogus. It is too bad that it is so expensive to copyright a photo. Watermarks do do a nice job though

I do have six copyrights in the LOC for computer programs and manuals I wrote. To give you an idea I think I paid $35-65 for those, kind of shows my age.

 

[Aussie Billy Sherman]

Anyone know what those three things to the right on the ground in the background are? They're in front of the guns at the rear.

 

[reading48]

Fantastic works....

 

[James N.]

Anyone know what those three things to the right on the ground in the background are? They're in front of the guns at the rear.

Those are the smaller Coehorn or trench mortars which saw considerable use at sieges like Petersburg and Vicksburg. Their small size meant that even though they weighed several hundred pounds, only four men - one at each handle - could carry them into position and move them if they came under enemy counter-battery fire. In the photo their muzzles are plugged by wooden tompions to keep dirt and moisture out until they were used, unlike the larger mortar in the foreground.

 

[7th Texas Mounted Rifles]

Thanks so much.



Thank you, I have a special section just for artillery images here on my site, enjoy!

Just checked out your albums - Those Mountain Howitzer tubes (my absolute favorite of all the field pieces) are not done justice until colorized by a professional such as yourself.

Amazing work!

When i make my million, i want to employ you full-time colorizing Indian Wars images, haha.

You and @Zuzah are absolute artists.

 

[7th Texas Mounted Rifles]

Those are the smaller Coehorn or trench mortars which saw considerable use at sieges like Petersburg and Vicksburg. Their small size meant that even though they weighed several hundred pounds, only four men - one at each handle - could carry them into position and move them if they came under enemy counter-battery fire. In the photo their muzzles are plugged by wooden tompions to keep dirt and moisture out until they were used, unlike the larger mortar in the foreground.

You expertise shines through yet again, sir.

Model 1838 Coehorn, I've seen them referred to as 'Royal' mortars with some frequency as well.

Don't quote me on it, but i seem to remember reading that Ames was responsible for every single one manufactured domestically.

EDIT: curiosity got the better of me, so i did a bit of research - Tredegar is known to have produced 76, about half of which were 24 pounders and the rest 12's.

ANOTHER EDIT:

S.N.O.W produced some late-war too, apparently. That more than explains the iron constructed examples.

 

[rdengmurr]

That is quite awesome! It really jumps out at you, very clear and so real. Great work

 

[John Winn]

Those are the smaller Coehorn or trench mortars which saw considerable use at sieges like Petersburg and Vicksburg. Their small size meant that even though they weighed several hundred pounds, only four men - one at each handle - could carry them into position and move them if they came under enemy counter-battery fire. In the photo their muzzles are plugged by wooden tompions to keep dirt and moisture out until they were used, unlike the larger mortar in the foreground.

I got to fire one of those at a living history presentation last summer. I also got to fire a repro 3 inch ordnance rifle. When we were approaching the field where the guns were my wife saw the mortar and said "what a cute little cannon." Bless her heart.

 

[James N.]

You expertise shines through yet again, sir.

Model 1838 Coehorn, I've seen them referred to as 'Royal' mortars with some frequency as well.

Don't quote me on it, but i seem to remember reading that Ames was responsible for every single one manufactured domestically.

EDIT: curiosity got the better of me, so i did a bit of research - Tredegar is known to have produced 76, about half of which were 24 pounders and the rest 12's.

ANOTHER EDIT:

S.N.O.W produced some late-war too, apparently. That more than explains the iron constructed examples.

There were also the wooden versions improvised from the stumps and logs of trees at Vicksburg! They were banded with iron hoops from barrels to keep them from being split apart from the discharge. There's a small line drawing of one in use reproduced in Battles and Leaders.