Landships II

EDUARDO MAMORETTI · General

8inch Howitzer

philthydirtyanimal · Commander in Chief

Sorry Eduardo, so far all I can find is this handbook of the 8-inch Vickers Mark VI

http://www.archive.org/details/handbookinchhow00deptgoog

Do you know of any museums that have one of the early marks? They may be near to someone and they could get some photos for you.

TOPCAT · Corporal

Military Modelling of June 1974 has a plan by Ken Musgrave.

Perhaps he could be persuaded to add it to his plans on Landships?

Failing that, I could dig the magazine out of the attic and send you a copy.

GaryM · Corporal

Plans attached of the MK 2 8inch Howitzer, I am trying to find plan drawings of the Limber as used on this Gun. Any help would be most appreciated.

EDUARDO MAMORETTI · General

Thank You to You All,
Philty, Topcat & GARY I highly appreciate the response.
Could not respond before because of my PC is not working fine, and as a consecuence of the flu here in ARGENTINA most public places when one can acess a computer are temporary closed.
I could pic up thank to our chap Gary this useful fthe prolific hands of Mr.Musgrave, which I attach. Neverteheless, I realy appreciate the colaboration offered. And already started to work in the model. About the colourof the finish, it would be interesting to know you opinion beforehand the model is ready, which I think could be in some weeks.
Best regards,
EDUARDO

GaryM · Corporal

Hi, I thought you might find this of interest, unfortunately I haven't been able to locate a better and larger scan of this drawing.

EDUARDO MAMORETTI · General

Fab!
I have already started to scratchbuild my one an it has became up to now my main�modelling project�in working progress.- I really love the image attached, which is very inspirative on colours info (�I plan to use a sort of mid- green) and offers a fine �and unique image of the beast plus the interesting caisson,being pulled by the classical Holt!
Higly appreciated effort, thank You a lot!
Ed

EDUARDO MAMORETTI · General

Thanks to the chaps in this thread, I already finished the carriage, gun tube� & craddle, included�it�s�painting and a modest weathering.
Now I am turnig to the wheels ( oh God!!!) not so easy as at first glance!
May be a pair of shells, empty or not would add some realism to the vignette I am building for this howie but I �Wonder how they were, may be with bronze cratrige and a small ring on top for ahndking them with a hoist?
Best regards, Ed smile

EDUARDO MAMORETTI · General

EDUARDO MAMORETTI wrote:

Thanks to the chaps in this thread, I already finished the carriage, gun tube� & craddle, included�it�s�painting and a modest weathering.
Now I am turnig to the wheels ( oh God!!!) not so easy as at first glance!
May be a pair of shells, empty or not would add some realism to the vignette I am building for this howie but I �Wonder how they were, may be with bronze cratrige and a small ring on top for ahndking them with a hoist?
Best regards, Ed

Today I am updating the finished images� of my finished aproximation in the modelling section in this forum.
I greattly apreciate the help form my dear colleagues Philty Dirty Animal, Topcat�& Gary M.
Best Regards wink

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