Wonderful detail!
Great job you do.
Thank you for appreciating my work. Yes, rings with rings will be driven into the sides of the large gun port from the inside.The first question is not clear to me. What are the openings in front of the stairwells?
Thank you. These rails are made by laser cutting. About how the platform rode on them. In our group of modelers, they came to the conclusion that there were something like rollers from below. There was a hole in the front of the platform for a powerful pin. It was inserted through the platform into the holes in the rails, in the places of the U-turn. If you see spots on the rails, that's where they were. . The cannon itself stood on movable sleds that rode on metal rails of the platform itself. The rollers were mounted in the side walls of the machine, in the corners. I did not depict them on my scale. We just outlined the reinforcements in the corners. Well, they dragged the platform with the help of the same hoists with blocks.
Hello MrDeep!
I'm no expert, but my guess is that the guns/cannons had a distinct pivot point with rollers following the tracks, hence the concentric circles of the tracks. Apparently there were multiple pivot points for different types of armament and may be also depending on the tactical situation. This could explain the intricate pattern of the tracks.
Here are some interesting pictures I found. A model from the museum in Greenwich.I wonder how the shaft of a steam engine was inserted into the screw? And when the frame with the screw was lifted, why didn't the water go into this hole?
