a really big gun

[Dave Stevens (Lumberyard)]

this was going to go in the topic about cannons but I could not find it. Lost someplace in the forum so I just posted it here

 

[Charles QC]

That must give a hell of a kick

 

[pebbleworm]

Coast Defense guns are very interesting- there are a lot of former sites around San Francisco. But sometimes there is trouble:

A "Most Awful and Most Lamentable Catastrophe": The Explosion on the USS Princeton

In 1844, a fiery explosion on the Potomac River nearly killed the President and may have changed the course of American history.

blogs.weta.org

 

[DocBlake]

Early90’s PC video game called “Doom” had an ultimate weapon that you unlocked near the end of the game. Killed anything. Very much like this! It was called the “BFG 9000”. I’ll let you all speculate on the acronym!

 

[mrshanks]

Here are a couple photos of "big gun" models I have built in the past. These are all in various stages of construction.

K5 Leopold - German railroad gun from WWII



150mm German field howitzer from WWII




Karl - German siege mortar WWII

 

[Dave Stevens (Lumberyard)]

hey guys there is a topic called looking at cannons
rather than scatter this stuff around the forum maybe it might be better to keep it all together under one topic title so it can be found easier.

this is my fault I should have posted a big gun under the original topic but for some reason i could not find it and thought it got lost when the site was updated.
i jumped the gun and started this post