 | | Re: 18th Century Howitzer —Jakob Nijsen
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| | | (...) This is the best home-brewed cannon I've seen so far. It's quite perfect and still simple, very much to my taste. I would love you to do a diorama around this. I do have a question however, isn't a howitzer some form of mortar? In the game Age (...) (18 years ago, 11-Oct-06, to lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: 18th Century Howitzer —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | (...) Sort of. Howitzers were developed to fire at high angles, but were generally transported with the cannon horizontal. Nowadays, the word "howitzer" seems to be used for just about any cannon-like artillery. ROSCO (18 years ago, 12-Oct-06, to lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: 18th Century Howitzer —Elroy Davis
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| | | | (...) Thanks. I'm glad you like it. I posted a couple of pictures of this over on Eurobricks that show a bit better how the barrel and carriage go together. They are in this thread: (URL) (...) This page: (URL) has a pretty good explanation of the (...) (18 years ago, 12-Oct-06, to lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: 18th Century Howitzer —Jakob Nijsen
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| | | | (...) I immediately built it when I saw it the first time (Which I never do by the way), and I use a more common brick for the three-way connection, but thanks for the thought. (...) Thanks, the site is clear in its explanation! Thanks as well to (...) (18 years ago, 13-Oct-06, to lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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