radish1us 390 Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 (edited) It appears that quite a few persons on this forum, are kind of taken with things that go "bang", so here's another ---------------------- A set of drawings duly arrived in the mailbox from a person who had seen that tiny "joke", I was told to make this and do a good job on it. Liked the look of the few bits of detail on the drawings, so did quite a bit of research into these 'thingies' and decided that the model should be made to represent an actual gun. Found a pic on some English site and it clearly showed the colour of the timber and what all the metal work should look like as well. It is made to 1/12th scale as that's what most of the other models I make are to this scale as well. Used Tasmanian Myrtle for the woodwork and ALL the metalwork is made from brass, duly blacked to look like it was made on a forge and painted black to slow down any rust. Took a few months of graft and this jigger appeared on the workbench. Started with the wheels first, if I can not do a good job on them, then why go any further. An Englishman by the name of John Thompson has a few booklets printed on the way you can make miniature horse drawn carriages. These booklets show how JT makes his wheels from timber, to try and emulate an actual full sized wooden spoked carriage wheel, used these drawings of JT's as an inspiration and his methods DO WORK. Only problem with JT's method of wooden wheel construction, is that you sure waste a lot of timber doing it his way, so over the years I have developed another way of constructing wooden spoked wheels without the wastage of a lot of timber. More on this subject with further postings. Start with the hub, spokes and wooden fellies, the fellies are those 6 wooden cake slices all glued together, then into the lathe to make a circle of fellies the correct O/D and I/D Here's how the wooden spokes fit into the hub, the spoke ends are a tapered rectangle and I just use a jewellers hammer to knock them into the round holes, as the spokes are driven in, the rectangle on the end of the spoke forces it's way into the round hole, making the round hole a squarish hole. This looks like the spoke has actually been mortised into the hub, just way the wheels are made by a wheelwright, OK, it's cheating, but hey, it bloody well works, eh. Here's what all the finished "spiders' look like, as well as the fellies turned to size ready to accept the 'spider's', when joined you now have a wooden spoked wheel that actually does resemble a full sized wheel. Spiders and fellies being glued together to make the wheel. Started on the main body, wings, axles and turning the brass cannon. A mock up of the few bits just to get an idea of size. No more pictures until I had finished it, forgot to take any more progress photo's, sorry. After painting and blackening the brass work, this appeared on the bench. And the Limber soon followed. Had this model on another forum and one of the members contacted Barrie Voisey's son, who then got in touch with me. Now when Barrie Voisey was actually making and selling kits of this cannon, and other models, Barrie's son was the person who actually made dozens of these finished cannons, as Barrie Voisey offered the unfinished kit, or, as a 'finished item' for sale. He was over the moon to see how I had done mine, as all he ever made was the fancy version, lacquered timber and polished brass finish. Anyway, same as before, any comments or queries shall be attended to in a timely manner. Edited November 15, 2020 by radish1us 31 2 Link to post Share on other sites
swralph 1,266 Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 Excellent model. Link to post Share on other sites
Stef N. 932 Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 Fantastic craftsmanship. Bravo. Link to post Share on other sites
Getting Old 421 Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 Nicely detailed, great work Link to post Share on other sites
Bullbasket 11,355 Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 You sir, are a very skilled craftsman. Excellent work. John. Link to post Share on other sites
StuartH 387 Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 Beautiful work Link to post Share on other sites
Bandsaw Steve 6,201 Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 Agreed - beautifully done. I especially like the finish. Much more realistic than the shiny ornaments these sometimes become. Thanks for sharing how to make the wheels. Might have a crack at that one day. Link to post Share on other sites
Deadeye18 1 Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 What a beautiful model, well done! Link to post Share on other sites
JohnT 3,555 Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 Great craftsmanship, great finish and great result and not a bit of plastic in the park ! How do you do that?? Jaw dropping result. Bravo Link to post Share on other sites
nheather 900 Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 That is amazing. The first six photos it looked like really skilful modelling but it still looked quite basic and then suddenly the finished model and wow. If it weren’t for the fact that I knew it was a model it could easily be taken for the real thing. Cheers, Nigel Link to post Share on other sites
Homer 774 Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 Excellent model a joy to see ,well done Link to post Share on other sites
Longbow 6,059 Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 Outstanding Job !! Link to post Share on other sites
Panda Commander 24 Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 Panda commander Link to post Share on other sites
Ryedale Wolf 316 Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 Superb! Link to post Share on other sites
RAF4EVER 45 Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 All you need to do is make the seamen,for the Field Gun Race. Link to post Share on other sites
John_W 2,718 Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 Stunning build. Not at all biased that the 9pdr appears on my Cap Badge.... Link to post Share on other sites
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