Wanted: large gun barrels

MichelB · Post by **MichelB** » Thu May 31, 2007 10:40 am

For a joint operation scratchbuild with a friend of mine, where can I get 1:16 turned metal barrels for armour? Specifically for a SU-100. T.i.A!

ingura · Post by **ingura** » Thu May 31, 2007 11:01 am

Amphibious Russian Assault Gun - interesting....

Rough dimensions? Scale drawing at hand? Maybe I can do it for you.

Jose Chaica · Post by **Jose Chaica** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 5:25 am

ingura wrote:Amphibious Russian Assault Gun - interesting....

Rough dimensions? Scale drawing at hand? Maybe I can do it for you.

Can you turn large scale barrels ??? I might have work for you...

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MichelB · Post by **MichelB** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 6:49 am

Ingura, if you're willing to help, i'd be very glad! I will work out the dimensions tonight (in collaboration with my friend, he's the armour expert). Do you accept paypal?

ingura · Post by **ingura** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 7:31 am

What I expect is that you need two barrels in a diameter not exceeding 10 mm. Forget PayPal - we're not talking money at all, ok?

Here is what I did for a friend: 15"ers of WARSPITE in scale 1/100

One perfect plug, the rest casted resin.

ingura · Post by **ingura** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 10:33 am

Jose Chaica · Post by **Jose Chaica** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 10:33 am

Thats a REALLY nice job......

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ingura · Post by **ingura** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 10:38 am

Jose Chaica · Post by **Jose Chaica** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 3:36 am

ingura wrote:Thank you Jose - what kind of gun barrels are you looking for?

Hi Peter
I was looking for someone to turn me 1 (I need 9, but would cast all the others by my own) Baltimore class cruiser 8�(203mm) L/55 in 1/72. It�s quite difficult to find someone here in Portugal willing to do that. Building such a ship is something I�ve been holding up, since I can�t find a person to do that job for me.
Thanks for asking.

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MichelB · Post by **MichelB** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 4:24 am

Ingura, I did the math and the max diameter is 17mm. The entire length of the barrel would be about 25 cm, add a locator pin of about 5 cm = 30.
Perhaps you could chop it up in two with a connecting pin, but there's no discernable 'line' somewhere in the middle. I have a GIf image with all the figures worked out, but it�s on another computer right now. I can send-post it tomorrow. Do you think you can make a two piece barrel with a small enough transition=

ingura · Post by **ingura** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 4:58 am

ingura · Post by **ingura** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:00 am

ingura · Post by **ingura** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 1:06 pm

Jose Chaica · Post by **Jose Chaica** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 1:19 pm

Peter ...
I�ve got no words......

My address will be sent by PM.
Thank You Very Very Much......

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MichelB · Post by **MichelB** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:45 am

Ingura,

I've done the math and jotted down the dimensions on a technical drawing that showes the full length of the barrel. If there's one thing impressive about the SU-100, it's that ridicilous barrel jutting forward.

http://www.warshipmodels.com/~users/Mic ... _100_4.JPG

Will you let me know if you can turn this one? Your help is really appreciated!

ingura · Post by **ingura** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:10 am

MichelB · Post by **MichelB** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:58 am

OK!

ingura · Post by **ingura** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 5:50 am

MichelB · Post by **MichelB** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 7:58 am

Ingura, that's great to hear. Actually we will need only one barrel, with some cm's at the end to fix her into the hull. That's ok?
If you can do that, you'll have two very thankful friends in Holland.

ingura · Post by **ingura** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:47 pm