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Subject: 
Re: Secret testing of a new cannon
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lugnet.pirates
Date: 
Tue, 22 Feb 2005 02:57:34 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Lindsay Frederick Braun wrote:
   In lugnet.pirates, Kurt Baty wrote:

   On a small sand island in a bayou not to far from Galveston Secret testing of one of the new cannons continues!

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=117737

why pirates? (recall what Sam Houston said about us)

so what do you think?

kurt

Austin, TX

It kind of looks like a 15” Dahlgren.

The 15 inch Dahlgren was my model prototype, my lego cannon however, has the flatish butt end of the 15” Rodman

http://www.cwartillery.org/ve/dahlgrens.html

http://www.cwartillery.org/ve/rodman.html

   I really like the inclusion of gearing on the carriage!


Finally, someone likes my gun mount/carriage!! Thanks!

I was just looking on the web for pics or drawings of early (pre-civil war) gun mounts/carriage and I found the drawing of Ericsson’s gun carriage, and I have him so strongly figured in my “Storyline”. I just had to try to model it!

What do you think of my gun’s elevation screw-setup?

I looked at the this part

http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/30209

but it wasn’t black and plate is not the right shape. I used the tap part but it’s really not quite “heavy” enough. Oh well, the joys of modeling in lego!

kurt

   LFB



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  Re: Secret testing of a new cannon
 
(...) It kind of looks like a 15" Dahlgren. I really like the inclusion of gearing on the carriage! LFB (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)

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