12 Ponder Canon ACW

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Shaun Symonds
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12 Ponder Canon ACW

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

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

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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 :lol:

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Interesting for sure. I will be following.

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

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Same as Shawn

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Hi
Welcome aboard all :D
Managed to get the wheels assembled. Very time consuming job that was. :roll:
First off was separating the wheel rims from there casting block , slow careful not to break the rim.
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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.
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after awhile it started to look like a wheel :)
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one done three to go
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two done
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little bit of glue clean up to do later
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third being made
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all done
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glad that's done ;)
That's all for this session, got some other builds that I'm trying to finish :oops:
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Great work on the wheels Shaun.

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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 :lol: .

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


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

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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 :)
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