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It finally got warm enough in the shop for me to stand the place for more than 10 minutes, so I airbrushed on a couple of coats of olive on the carriages. Then I started painting the hardware in Testor's Flat Steel (my new favorite color). My aim isn't what it used to be, so I blop-on the...

The pivot gun tracks are primed, painted, installed, and painted some more, then a clear-coat over everything. The gun barrels are painted and detailed, but the carriages haven't been yet. I'm going to airbrush them the same olive color the previous guns were. The new field carriage for the...

I 3D model using Anim8or, since the late 90's when I was making models for a WWI flight-sim/game called Red Baron 3D The models had to be somewhat simplistic or the game would become unplayable because of limited processing power. The software was free, and could output in the 3DS format the...

Cleaned up the hatches and refinished them. Primed the guns and tracks, even painted the gun barrels, and when they dried, sat it all on the hatches for a pic. Also got some primer on the previously printed guns; 30# Parrott, IX Dahlgren, 8 inch shell-gun, 32# shot gun.

Now I wanna see what ships from what movies! ;)

The slide on these guns is shorter than that on the previous pivot gun, so I had to remodel the deck tracks. You can see in the reference image of the deck, the old hand-made pivot slides image sticking out past that back of the new guns. The previous tracks were also a bit thick, so this time...

There's a number of them on ebay. Also check your Facebook Marketplace for listings local to you and by-pass the ebay shipping gougers. Craigslist, Goodwill, and a few other online selling sites often have one or so listed.

Second gun printed...

I finished the 10 inch Dahlgren pivot, several times. I kept finding "holes" where a face was left out, or facing the wrong way. I didn't model the gun's breech as it was in Dahlgren's drawing. It looked to me like he left the breech of the Columbiad from the Traverse Carriage drawing and made...

Well, I couldn't do everything for him. ;)

I may be reading this wrong, but "supports" in 3D printing are what connects the part to the printer's base or lifting-plate while it's printing one layer at a time. Everything, in each slice of the part, must be connected the the slice before it, or its an "island" and the printer has nothing...

I sent him a couple of spare 9s and howitzers, just in case.

Making the 3D models of Naval guns, as mentioned; I recently made a 60# Parrott rifle on a pivot carriage; which is what's said to have been the aft pivot gun on the Cumberland during her fight with the ironclad Virginia. Cumberland was originally armed with two 10 inch shell-guns as pivots...

Which exit!? I mean, welcome aboard ;)

Petersson's Rigging Period Ship Models images are all on Pintrest and a few other places. It's in the right time-frame for HBMS Discover.

James Lees says; "...up to 1805, [braces] led aft with the standing part made fast to the peak of the mizzen yard (lateen) or gaff, the running part rove through the brace pendant blocks, back through single blocks on a span round the mizzen yard or gaff, just below the standing part, and the...

If you're building a model of a ship that existed, it's probably best to go what's shown on the sail-plan rather than make something up. Square rigged vessels, into the late 1700s often peaked their gaffs lower because the mizzen braces ran to the peak of the gaff. If the gaff's peaked too...

I've become an arms dealer recently, a purveyor of naval artillery. That should show if the NSA is watching my online antics I'm not gonna gum up this thread with all of it, but here's a brief summary to get everyone up to speed... The Gavel, who chimed in in the post just before this, is...

Back in 2011 Stad Amsterdam came to Baltimore and I went into the city to see her. I took pictures with a modeler in mind, not that I ever intend to do such a model, and shared them on another forum back then. Maybe they can be of help to some one now.

Welcome aboard from Maryland