I believe this is what he is referring to as a "sandwich" part.
No 3D printed plastic part has a good looking to me. I'd rather prefer brass cannons by far, even if they weren't totally accurate. Not a big problem, tough. I'd eventually purchase some aftermarket brass barrels. Regards, Alberto
If lasered from the same raw plank, the sandwich would surely be almost invisible... at least until you apply any oil or varnish on it. Anyway, this solution wouldn't prevent the carling's weaving feared by Uwek, which mostly depends on inaccurate and asymmetrical fearing of the beams
Ciao Alberto,
I agree there are some fine barrels that can be purchased, but if the needed pattern and size are not available there are other options that provide first class barrels. 
some modelers, like myself, cannot paint. I've tried a few times and ruined the work. With brass barrels, you can chemically blacken. thought. Also, some eras and countries use bronze barrels so no finish is required,
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Hi Allan, in my humble experience as a modelship "spectator" the biggest issue affecting naval gunnery is the whole inaccuracy of train tackles and carriages. Most of gun barrels available in the market got too large bores as well. I purchased a couple of gun from Vanguard Model for my curiosity and yes, resin barrels are amazing and come already perfect in their dull black... but they needed their trunnions to be cut off as they resulted too short to match the carriage and too small in diameter for a pop gun (a 3 or 4 pounder to "rock" my boring Hoy a bit up..). Here below the original barrel and the one still waiting for brand new trunnions.Ciao Alberto,
A chance for us to agree to disagree.
Allan
I agree. Too many times we see double blocks on the running out and training tackle. For the English, according to Adrian Caruana in The History of English Sea Ordnance 32 pounders had a single block and double block on each side. Smaller calibers all had two single blocks.
Do you know what pattern the guns in the photos are? They look like Borgards from 1716-1724 but the cypher would have been the George I design. Enterprise would have likely had Armstrong Frederick pattern guns when launched with the tell tale cascabel ring and George III cypher. I have no idea what lengths the barrels were on Enterprise but on the below you an see the cypher and the ring around the cascabel button. I have 3D drawings in STL of this gun. I can email them to you if you wish to have them made. They cost me less than a dollar each at 1:64 scale in the US when buying 20 barrels so I would think they should be no more than one Euro each.
They make a fine product but these are misnamed for sure. The Armstrong had no vent field where as the later pattern Armstrong Frederick did have a vent field. Both had the ring on the button which really distinguishes them from earlier patterns. One of the things that has always been a question mark for me are the trucks. When were trucks made of multiple pieces versus single pieces? Based on the bolts and split they look to be made of four pieces. I have looked off and on for a long time but so far cannot find any evidence based on contemporary information that they were made of more than one piece of wood as described by Falconer. Hopefully someone can post something about this.
I have to disapoint you but this kit won’t cost you $2500 and will be the same quality if not better thsn any other counterparts
Dont forget this kit comes in two stages,first the hull and second is rigging
