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Re: "Mighty Lizbet" Railway Cannon.
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Sun, 11 May 2008 17:41:57 GMT
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These are the remaining elements to go with my Railway Cannon project.
The front carriage is the ammunition store and loading platform - it’s the same
height as the breech on the cannon itself. Ammunition is loaded up a small ramp
and then slides along a rail and into the cannon.
The rearmost carriages are the two troop wagons. In reality, they would not sit
together, one would sit behind the train engine and in front of the cannon and
the other at the rear of the whole train. They are inset at the back because the
barrel of the gun pokes forward and space will be needed at the rear of the
carriage in front of the gun itself, and also so that weapons can be mounted on
the rear to defend the train from attack.
I have decided to use the engine from
set 7898 as my locomotive. For
one thing, it’s green, for another, it’s pretty much what I want, with a few
modifications. And lastly, I have never built an engine from scratch before -
I’d likely screw it up, and why bother when I have a perfect candidate already
in my collection?
Full set of images here.
Comments welcome.
Dr. S.
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| Full images of the final build are now (URL) here>, including a short video! (URL) "Mighty Lizbet" herself now sits on a split-level carriage, lowering her centre of gravity and making the shape more what I originally intended. the carriage is also (...) (17 years ago, 14-May-08, to lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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