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Re: 18th Century Howitzer
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lugnet.build.military
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Thu, 12 Oct 2006 01:50:06 GMT
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In lugnet.build.military, Jakob Nijsen wrote:
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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.
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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:
http://eurobricks.hosting.ipsyn.com/euroforum/index.php?showtopic=6411&st=15
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I do have a question however, isn’t a howitzer some form of mortar? In the
game Age of Empires III it is an improved mortar, so I’m a bit curious.
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This page: http://www.americanrevolution.org/artillery.html has a pretty good
explanation of the difference between morters, howitzers, and cannons.
Basically a morter is a fixed piece that looks a bit like a really thick-skinned
bowl or cup, a howitzer is a more mobile piece that can vary it’s angle, and a
cannon is a big heavy gun, more along the lines of the standard LEGO pirate
cannon.
-Elroy
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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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| (...) 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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