Jim Burton opened this issue on Mar 16, 2004 ยท 8 posts
Jim Burton posted Tue, 16 March 2004 at 6:31 PM
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Randy Henderson contacted me about using the wheels of my cannon for the limber he was building, and he kindly let me put it on my site as Freestuff, to go with the cannon. It is a very nice limber, which is the two wheel cart that pulled the gun, and had a chest for shot and shell. We don't actually have a caisson yet, but as the song does't go "As the cannons, hooked to the limbers, go rolling along...", we had to do the best we could. The caisson, when we get one, will also hooked to Randy's limber. Civil war artillery was very, very well thought out, when a battery galloped into action they were often on the front line, next to the riflemen, and the smooth-bore Napoleon didn't greatly outrange the rifles. No time for thinking, load double canister, range point-blank, level the tube, FIRE! If counter-battery broke your wheels you would steal one from a caisson (they were all the same), If you lost your limber's horses (they weren't any more shot-proof than the men) you would do the same. If thing go unbearable you would limber up, and make a orderly withdraw! ;-)numanoid posted Tue, 16 March 2004 at 6:49 PM
Thank you. I don't know if you know, but your link to SkinSuit Texture Set is not working.
Jim Burton posted Tue, 16 March 2004 at 7:43 PM
Hi numanoid!- Opps, no I didn't, I'm fixing that right now.
pakled posted Wed, 17 March 2004 at 9:08 AM
now for the Parrot rifle, and the mortars..;)
I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit
anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)
Jim Burton posted Wed, 17 March 2004 at 7:51 PM
I actually have a Parrott / 6 Pounder combo, it was in one of the Renderosity Mag CDs. It is set up with switching geometry so the iron Parrott tube switches with the brass smoothbore, pretty trick, I though. They are on the every-popular 6 pounder carrage, which is slightly smaller than the one the Napoleon used (same wheels and limber, though). If enough people beg me I'll make it available again. I realise (of course) not many people put Civil War artillery in their renders, but maybe they should, they are nice models. ;-)
numanoid posted Wed, 17 March 2004 at 8:13 PM
I'm begging. How many people do you need to have begging. I have some spare cash and rent-a-crowd has a special on this week.
Jim Burton posted Wed, 17 March 2004 at 8:45 PM
Ha!- Email me and I send you a copy. jimburton@comcast.net
numanoid posted Wed, 17 March 2004 at 9:08 PM
E-mail sent, with a little thingie attached for your veiwing pleasure. (or displeasure, lol)