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The Guns of Navarone, 20mm/HO Scale
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The Thread Formerly Known as Generic 8"/203mm Coast Defense Gun (1914-1955), now expanded to cover several types of coastal defense weapons - more or less MaGuffins that our heroes need to destroy/defend in order to save the day.
Have some Mood Music for reading.
So this started out when I came across a pile of parts that use to be a Tamiya 1:35th scale 88mm FLAK gun (built by someone else).
To my eye, I could see this reborn as a wargaming piece as it looked like one of those rusting pieces of ordnance dotting coastlines from the Pacific to the Aegean to the Baltic and Bering Seas.
For background reading, see
http://20mmandthensome.blogspot.com/2017/04/japanese-fortifications-focus-on-8-inch.html
and for 7" guns on Bora Bora
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_7-45_mk2.php
and then there's the "Singapore guns"
http://marshall.csu.edu.au/Marshalls/html/essays/es-ww2-5.html
Note for those looking for an easy way out, a simpler solution can be found in the AIRFIX D-Day Gun Emplacement kit (@$16-20 these days).
Anyone who has built up one of those kits, feel free to jump into this thread and share.
So, starting with the remains of the gun, a smoke detector quick-release base and an unfinished wooden lamp base snatched from someone else's trash pile, there was a test-fitting.
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This is a quick-and-dirty butchery project, not brain surgery. Off came the outrigger legs
... and then the smoke detector base was separated into a concrete base and parapet; inverting the center piece of the base so it was smooth-side-up and grinding off the lettering on the outer ring (Pending)
Next was finding some donor scrap to fashion platforms for the gunners.
Next was fitting some more scrap material to the base of the kit's shield.
jcf:
Cool!
Fort Casey on Whidbey Island here in Washington State has two 10" disappearing-carriage guns
on display at Battery Worth:
And two 3" pedestal guns at Battery Trevor:
It's one of three major forts intended to guard the entrance to Puget Sound:
http://www.fortwiki.com/Fort_Casey_(1)
http://www.fortwiki.com/Fort_Flagler
http://www.fortwiki.com/Fort_Worden
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--- Quote from: jcf on June 13, 2017, 12:56:38 AM ---Cool!
Fort Casey on Whidbey Island here in Washington State has two 10" disappearing-carriage guns
on display at Battery Worth:
--- End quote ---
Thanks. That side-view is actually very good for anyone wanting to do a disappearing gun - a pair of cylinders swiped from some other kit, a barrel from a 1:35th or 1:25th tank kit & you're halfway there.
Whack-a-mole for Dreadnaughts: The cannon goes up, the cannon goes down.
See also http://www.militarymuseum.org/BtyMendell.html
NZ layout, meant to deter the Russians in the 1880s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Head,_New_Zealand
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Take note, mein Peanut Gallery - since we only started with a concept of a general *feel* and we're doing this without plans, blueprints or drawings with divergent salvage, these pics are as much a check for alignment as well as a progress report.
Waste not, want not those Outriggers. They're now load-bearing arms for the shield
Shield lines up from the muzzle - check.
Hmmm, looks asymmetric doesn't it?
Well, if this was from a two-gun 8" naval turret of course it'd be!
This here's the right-hand fed gun.
Tube lines up with load-bearing arms - check.
Vertical alignment - check.
Unattended woman mocks pretentious Art Museum narratives. Film at 11.
The Jap guns from Tarawa where another inspiration.
Here's a YouTube walkabout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g2_jk87hBY
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