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Since I last put virtual pen to paper I have started working on the stern of Scarborough, adding a small bench below the transom lights in the captain's cabin. I also built up the rudder and fixed it to stern post. I used the gudgeon and pintle braces from the kit, I found these, like most of the photo-etched sheet, to be a little flimsy an ,at least to my eye, slightly out of scale. Regardless they look nice enough.
Perhaps I am too fussy but I really did not like the gun barrels that came with the kit, like wise the gun carriages, although top notch, well designed and produced, are simply of a different era and I could not make myself fit them. First the barrels are way too long at a scale length of over eight and a half feet,( 1719 Establishment calls for seven and a half feet with a bore of three and a half inches, scale eqv. of 1.85mm). Amusingly the bore of the brass guns in the kit scales up to 5.85 inches, a 32 pound gun circa 1720 had a bore of just over 6 inches. I guess these barrels are just generic, but to me they just don't look right. So having made a rod for my own back I set out to find a suitable barrel and make a convincing carriage.
The barrels I had 3D printed from Vanguard Models, and the carriage, although probably not a pretty as the ones in the kit I made (at the fourth attempt) using what information I could gather. Interestingly although the carriage drawn in the AoS Blandford book by Goodwin is very like the carriage supplied in the text Goodwin describes a carriage with a bed, so there has been a mix-up there somewhere. Like I said maybe I am just too fussy.
Here are some photos including the JJ Board of Ordnance Mk. 4 prototype bed and trucks carriage and gun. (not to mention a few odd looking boyos to serve her).
Cheers JJ..
ps that brass barrel would make a nice table cigarette lighter.
Perhaps I am too fussy but I really did not like the gun barrels that came with the kit, like wise the gun carriages, although top notch, well designed and produced, are simply of a different era and I could not make myself fit them. First the barrels are way too long at a scale length of over eight and a half feet,( 1719 Establishment calls for seven and a half feet with a bore of three and a half inches, scale eqv. of 1.85mm). Amusingly the bore of the brass guns in the kit scales up to 5.85 inches, a 32 pound gun circa 1720 had a bore of just over 6 inches. I guess these barrels are just generic, but to me they just don't look right. So having made a rod for my own back I set out to find a suitable barrel and make a convincing carriage.
The barrels I had 3D printed from Vanguard Models, and the carriage, although probably not a pretty as the ones in the kit I made (at the fourth attempt) using what information I could gather. Interestingly although the carriage drawn in the AoS Blandford book by Goodwin is very like the carriage supplied in the text Goodwin describes a carriage with a bed, so there has been a mix-up there somewhere. Like I said maybe I am just too fussy.
Here are some photos including the JJ Board of Ordnance Mk. 4 prototype bed and trucks carriage and gun. (not to mention a few odd looking boyos to serve her).
Cheers JJ..ps that brass barrel would make a nice table cigarette lighter.
. Cheers Grant