Armortek

1885 Vickers 18 pdr deck gun rep. All steel construction.

HI Bob
that is absolutley brilliant bit of work , i love it, i like old cannon,s artilary
guns and rifles , that realy is nice ,a lot of work but worth every minute spent on it . how long did it take you to finish it to this point and will you be painting it ,and what scale is it in. thanks for posting the pics they put a big smile on my face, well done all the best ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,nick

Bob

Stunning work. Congratulations. Thanks for sharing. I'm sure a number of us who have struggled to represent rifling in the tank gun barrels would be grateful to know how you did yours. Did you force a plug through as the full size does?

Best regards

Stephen

Thank you for your comments. Unfortunately I’m not skilled enough to make such a piece. It’s engineered perfectly, the recoil mech, transverse and elevation mech, and interrupted screw breech has perfect action. A friend of mine made it in 1/10 scale in less than 100 hrs.

A retired engineer from the armaments industry, the same guy who's making my 1/6 MG34. I have no idea how he rifled the barrel but im thinking he used old gun barrel as material.

I’m about to commission a 1/10 8" Vickers howitzer 1914-1918. I'm sure if anyone wants a tank barrel he would oblige.

Again thanks for the comments

VICKERS ARMSTRONG 8" HOWITZER


The following piece is for sale. It's 1/8 scale.

1/8 18pdr ARMSTRONG SCREW GUN CONSTRUCTION


1/8 18pdr ARMSTRONG SCREW GUN COMPLETE


ACTUAL 18pdr ARMSTRONG SCREW GUN IN MUSEUM

Wonderful collection. Belongs in a museum. Still want that MG34.

Very nice work! It takes me 100 hours to make one piece! Thanks for sharing the photos.
Best regards,
Bob

The MG34 is on the finishing stages. It was held up by waiting a delivery of a dragon one from UK to Australia (where he lives) for magazine fitting. It's finally arrived now so I will have it in the next few weeks. The problem is he wont build any more MG34's. Too fiddly he says

He did use a .45 barrel for the deck gun hence the rifling. It was stopped and passed for delivery by UK customs so it's quite legal. He will make rifled tank barrels to order, either the barrel or with functional breech and mech.



borrowed from another site

That functional breech would be great. Outside my budget. Would love to get some dimensions though.

found this

The 8 inch howitzer progress . nearly done