In 1898 the French army adopted a revolutionary new piece of field artillery, the Matériel de 75mm Mle 1897 or as it came to be called in English, the French 75. The gun is considered to be the first modern artillery piece because of its rapid firing system. It used a hydro-pneumatic recoil absorbing mechanism that allowed the crew of six to fire the gun repeatedly at a target without re-aiming after every shot. By the end of WWI, about 12,000 had been produced and were in use by many different armies including the British and Americans.
The gun in this model is the 1901 version. The model is based primarily on museum photos. There are some missing pieces in the model due to the fact that they are not in most of the available pictures: the telescopic sight and two leather pouches on the back side of the shield. This is my second effort modelling this gun.
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