{"product_id":"ffl083","title":"FFL083 - Legionnaire Firing Gatling Gun | Thomas Gunn","description":"\u003cp\u003eFFL083 – Legionnaire Firing Gatling Gun | Thomas Gunn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt the centre of a desperate defensive position, few weapons create a more dramatic focal point than a Gatling gun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFFL083 – Legionnaire Firing Gatling Gun combines one of the most famous military formations of the colonial era with one of the best-known early rapid-fire weapons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePatented by Richard Jordan Gatling in 1862, the Gatling gun used multiple rotating barrels operated mechanically by a hand crank. It was not a machine gun in the later fully automatic sense, but it could deliver a formidable rate of fire compared with conventional rifles of the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThomas Gunn's figure portrays a Legionnaire actively operating the weapon, making FFL083 a natural centrepiece around which the other new releases can be arranged.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePosition the wounded FFL081 and fallen FFL082 nearby, with riflemen defending the flanks, and the scene quickly develops into the desperate last stand envisaged for the range.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAvailable from The Military Workshop – an impressive Thomas Gunn French Foreign Legion release and a superb focal point for a late-19th-century defensive diorama.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thomas Gunn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52821369585946,"sku":"FFL083","price":151.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/0154\/0890\/files\/FFL083.jpg?v=1788784701","url":"https:\/\/themilitaryworkshop.com\/products\/ffl083","provider":"The Military Workshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}