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Wanted: large gun barrels
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 10:40 am
by MichelB
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!
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 11:01 am
by ingura
Amphibious Russian Assault Gun - interesting....
Rough dimensions? Scale drawing at hand? Maybe I can do it for you.
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 5:25 am
by Jose Chaica
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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Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 6:49 am
by MichelB
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?
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 7:31 am
by ingura
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.
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 10:33 am
by ingura
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Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 10:33 am
by Jose Chaica
Thats a REALLY nice job......
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Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 10:38 am
by ingura
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Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 3:36 am
by Jose Chaica
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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Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 4:24 am
by MichelB
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=
Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 4:58 am
by ingura
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Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:00 am
by ingura
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Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 1:06 pm
by ingura
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Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 1:19 pm
by Jose Chaica
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:45 am
by MichelB
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!
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:10 am
by ingura
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Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:58 am
by MichelB
OK!
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 5:50 am
by ingura
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 7:58 am
by MichelB
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.
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:47 pm
by ingura
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