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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: EnclavedMicrostate on 08 July 2025, 03:06:14 PM

Title: 1860s French RML naval guns in 28mm?
Post by: EnclavedMicrostate on 08 July 2025, 03:06:14 PM

Hello all,

I have a rather snazzy 1/54th scale kit of an ironclad that I am about to embark on building, for which I do not have any guns. More specifically, this is the Sphinx/Staerkodder/Stonewall/Koutetsu/Azuma, the Danish/French/Confederate/Spanish/American/Japanese warship famous for never ending up with its intended buyers (not for very long, anyway). Apparently, it was armed with a 10-inch, 300-pounder in the bow, and two 6.4-inch, 70-pounder guns in a pseudo-turret aft of the funnel, plus a Gatling gun on the deck. I've got a Gatling, but where might I find some RML guns that are close enough to what might come out of a French foundry ca. 1863?

Title: Re: French naval guns in 28mm
Post by: AKULA on 09 July 2025, 02:39:23 PM

Some sizeable RML can be found here:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/actualsizeminiatures

Title: Re: French naval guns in 28mm
Post by: EnclavedMicrostate on 09 July 2025, 03:54:04 PM

Cheers! That 9" Dahlgren might work for the bow but I might still need to cast about for the turret guns.

Title: Re: French naval guns in 28mm
Post by: EnclavedMicrostate on 10 July 2025, 03:25:09 AM

Seems like there's some more detailed images with the guns:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/CSS_Stonewall_Plan.jpg)

Any ideas for where to find similar?