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Normally I just post this kind of stuff to C-C, but since the last picture has
some cross-over to pirates, I thought I would post it here, too.
These are three different versions of medieval handgunners I have made. There
is a tendancy to think of knights and castles not co-existing with gunpowder, or
at most early cannon, but in fact early “handgonnes” (append numerous other
medieval names as you wish) were on the battlefield in the latter half of the
14th century.
This is a simple “toilet plunger” (flagpole) with 1x1 round. Though the 1x1
round is too large, the overall shape is basically correct for many handgonnes
around 1400.
Looking for something not so oversize, I used a light-sabre handle. The chrome
is obnoxiously bright, so I spray-painted it black. Inasmuch as medieval cannon
and some guns used reinforcing bands, it worked out rather well.
This is closer to what handgonnes looked like around 1450, with a shaped stock,
though they would use a serpentine and not a flintlock. They were fairly
short-barreled and short-stocked, so the stock could be cut down. This has a
nice musketoon look appropriate for the Pirates period.
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