Yes, my alter ego strikes again.
Zak or Haddock? I prefer mine with chips, chaps.

managed to splosh some paint on yesterday.
Posting as me now, or should that be posing?

Ploshing, posting, or posing............................

As long as its you, who cares?
Bigkev 

Here is the latest on my 15 in siege howitzer.
Paint applied and a little dry brushing, more weathering required I think.

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Wowza Zak, that is looking good. Another masterpiece from the master.

Thank you kind sir.

Not being one to let the grass grow beneath my feet, some research revealed that some large guns were rail mounted.
So here goes, this hopefully will become a Mk1 12 inch Rail Mounted Howitzer.
Hopefully I will not have bitten off more than I can chew.
This reference was very useful https://archive.org/stream/cu31924092701766#page/n161/mode/2up.
I did have some bits and pieces from railway modelling days that may prove useful - the wheels in particular.

Here are the bogies under construction, the springs were cut off another model.
The track has balsa sleepers and plastic rails.

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Hi Zak,
No, your clearly on the right lines.
Look forward to seeing it progress.
Bigkev

Not the right track then?
I'll just keep punning along.

There`s no room for sleepers here!
What scale is this Zak?

Quote from: Kiteman on May 17, 2015, 02:45:46 PM
There`s no room for sleepers here!
What scale is this Zak?

1/35 - my usual scale, it is quite large, 42cm or 16 inches or thereabouts.

Detail added to the bogies and then I have been working on the body.

I am finding it difficult to see details on top of the body, will try to find out but I may have to take a best guess.
The Mk 1 was fitted with the shorter howitzer fitted with a recuperator above, it was basically a strengthened 9.2 in as far as I can tell.

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Goodness, what terrific work.  You're really opening my eyes to some of the industrial ways of destruction we had back then!

Quote from: Wizzel on May 18, 2015, 08:59:54 AM
Goodness, what terrific work.  You're really opening my eyes to some of the industrial ways of destruction we had back then!

You can't beat a bit of industrial destruction, it comes in every larger delivery types.

I'm having a riveting time at the moment.


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