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Hi
Finally have been able to get some shed time now it's slowly warming up in there.
So I'll join this campaign with something that I've actually used. As some of you will remember I used to do American Civil War Living History & whilst belonging to the Association ( Soskan) I was with the Cavalry 1st then the Artillery for many years. So I'm doing a 12 Pounder or more commonly known as a Napoleon canon.
If I can find some suitable figure's it may become a diorama. I'm using the Verlinden kit 1774 for the build.






Hopefully start the build next week as were away this weekend at Crufts taking out 2 Skye Terriers

Shaun

That is an unusual subject Shaun. Nice choice. I'll be interested to see this one come together.

Cheers,
Vincent

I think I've never seen a pre-WW1 artillery piece in 1/35 - very nice!

Let's all hope we don't have to wait until the 2060's for proper styrene kits

Philipp

Interesting for sure. I will be following.

Shawn

Shawn Ramsey wrote:Interesting for sure. I will be following.

Shawn

Same as Shawn

Rob

Hi
Welcome aboard all
Managed to get the wheels assembled. Very time consuming job that was.
First off was separating the wheel rims from there casting block , slow careful not to break the rim.


Then clamping the Rim to a supplied Jig it was time to start adding the spokes. Fun time as the jig wasn't a perfect fit.

after awhile it started to look like a wheel


one done three to go


two done

little bit of glue clean up to do later

third being made

all done

glad that's done
That's all for this session, got some other builds that I'm trying to finish
Shaun

Great work on the wheels Shaun.

Shawn

Really intriguing project here!
I really love the "Napoleon" 12 pounder, probably because I've grown to like it playing Sid Meier's Gettysburg and Antietam and now play the spiritual successor games of those titles .

It would be really cool to have more late 19th century artillery with some figures... ACW pieces, Prussian pieces from the Wars of Unification...


Best regards

Raoul G. Kunz

How hard would it have been to cast that wheel in 2-3 pieces instead of 20?

Philipp

Very nice indeed, I actually like the construction method on the spokes, elegant!

I was very tempted to do a Napoleonic artillery train, if I have time i may still do