Fortress Guns

[dijit]

You good sir are a scratch building genius!

[6milPhil]

Spotless work, looking forward to seeing more.

[floating white bear]

Slow progress here, but the guns are just about done. and I have started into some works to mount them.

Regards, Rob.

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[OSHIROmodels]

Glad to see you carry on with this 

chess

James

[Elbows]

Beautiful gunworks! 

[floating white bear]

Roughed in the foam for the hills.  The edge profiles were fairly carefully cut to allow the sections to be mix-and-match. The rest of the hills were bulked in with foam and hot glue, in a semi-random build. I used a utility knife to hack out the foam bits. after a trim with the knife, the next step will be a first contour with the hot-wire cutter, then some card profiles for the edges to make sure they line up.  Then more hot-wire, the surform tool (a rough rasp like plane-tool thingy for shaping foam) and probably the Dremel to get into the tight corners. Then some drywall mud and terraining and detailing...and paint...

The foam was a nice bright pink when I first bought it. The newer stuff is a dull purple/pink. Seem fairly similar.  The purple appears to be a finer grain. Cuts Ok with the hot-wire but I plan to do the shaping in the garage with lots of ventilation and a face mask for fumes and dust. The purple may have a lower melting point as my hot-glue tended to eat into the purple foam more than the pink.

Regards, Rob.

[Hammers]

Basic structure is just about done here. The lower "X" support is not historical ...

Are you sure? My cast white metal HLBS fortress Parrot has an X at the bottom.

[von Lucky]

Looking good.

[floating white bear]

I don't know if there was a 'standard' carriage. I think there was enough historical variations, and I built the carriages to fit what I wanted to build, but the "X" reinforcement  was not in the drawings I used for the basic layout. Inspired by history is a better categorization rather than 'scale models'. Thanks, Rob.