It was at this point that I realised that the ends of the gun barrels were rather too low and close to the wall of the fort/battery, and I corrected this by adding two further small circles of plywood to the pivots ...
... and to the gun mountings.
As a result of these small changes, the gun barrels now cleared the wall of the fort.battery.
The next stage was to cut an entrance to the fort/battery in its rear wall ...
... and to add some ready-use ammunition lockers made from small blocks of basswood.
I then cut about a quarter of an inch from the end of each of the nails in the gun mountings and checked that the guns fitted.
Excellent work there Bob and this is looking really nice already:).
ReplyDeleteSteve J.,
DeleteCheers! It isn’t a perfect model but it’s good enough for use on my model railway layout … and on my wargame table!
All the best,
Bob
Hi there Bob,
ReplyDeleteLooks great - I just keep thinking ‘Guns of Navarone’! Just the thing for skirmish style raid. Making adjustments ‘on the hoof’ so to speak seem to be a kind of scratch building right of passage in many ways - I know I am often doing the same.
Will the paint job be in keeping with the Brennan launching site?
All the best,
DC
David Crook,
DeleteCheers! Unlike the Guns of Navarone (and - supposedly - the heavy guns at Singapore), these have almost 360-degree coverage, which means that if an enemy tries to attack them via the land side of the battery/fort - and can negotiate the marsh - the guns can fire at them over open sights.
The battery/fort will be painted in the same style as the Brennan Torpedo Launching Station.
All the best,
Bob
PS. A good few years ago I took part in a skirmish/role-play game at COW entitled ‘The Guns of Toblerone’ … and it was one of the most memorable ones I’ve ever taken part in!