Pushki

Pushki is the Russian word for the cannon used by the armies of Ivan the Terrible  in the 16th century, which is the approximate technological and cultural level in the Warhammer Old World.

While the Imperial city of Nuln casts by far the most cannons of anyplace in the Old World, the WHFRP supplement, Realm of the Ice Queen, states that the wealthy port of Eringrad casts many of the cannon used by the Ice Queen's armies, but that Eringrad cannons are smaller and lighter than those cast in Nuln, so this gun would probably count as a cannon (rather than a great cannon) in WH terms.

The model of the gun itself is an old GW cast. It was painted some sort of dark grey when I bought it and I just painted over it using one of the new Citadel metalics, Skullcrusher Brass, then washed with sepia and Nuln Oil.  Brass cannon were apparently common in the inventory of Ivan the Terrible, so I thought that would be appropriate. 

The base on which the gun is mounted is a 4x3 (i.e. 80mm x 60mm) base made from the WH base kit.  The area on which the gun sits along with the other spaces between the gunners are just 20mm bases glued down and filled with white and green stuff to give a smooth surface with no dips and angles where the bases meet.  The base was undercoated with GW's Steel Legion Drab, which is my go-to for undercoating figures and painting bases.  The surface area was then covered using a 50/50 mix of Woodland Scenics of Blended Turf Earth Blend (T350) and Soft Flake Snow (SN140).  Before the area dried I then hand-sprinkled some additional Soft Flake Snow in random areas. The terrain features are a stack of cannonballs and bucket from the plastic GW Empire Great Cannon set and tufts of turf/grass from the Warlord Games "Frozen Turf" set.