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A high detail posable model of a British Napoleonic Wars field cannon.

Includes:
1 externally-called posable cannon figure
9 externally-called equipment and ammunition props
Complete set of detailed textures

Features:
Wheels rotate independently
Barrell elevates
Elevator screw handle rotates and screw can be elevated to maintain contact with the barrel
Real World size
No ballooning geometries in Poser 5

There was no post work on this image apart from compositing text and border.
The image also features Transpond's Castle Ruins and the terrain from Transpond's Toil and Trouble.

Chris

This is an absolutely GORGEOUS piece of work Chris!!! I can't wait to blow something up with it! LOL!! Pendy

oh man that baby looks like it could do some damage!!! Hmmm...what to blow up with it? lol

Having just finished the Hornblower series, I'd say that the French and English had no trouble finding things to blow up. ;)

Carolly, have you tried Bernard Cornwell's "Sharpe" books?

The Sharpe books are great, I discovered them while in the DVD section of Amazon, looking for other movies Sean Ben was in. :)) Chris this is an awesome cannon, excellent work!

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Another Sean Bean admirer? I'm also looking at Llod Griffith's porcelain skin and dark eyes (he made a perfect Hornblower and quite gorgeous Lancelot). What I liked about Hornblower was the story-telling and problem solving, not the military action, but will look into the Sharpe books. Back to topic - ;^) - the 9 pounders in Hornblower were more accurate at extended range, IIRC, but when they took one off the boat and lugged it over land to plink at sitting ducks (Spanish ships in harbor), didn't they have to build a leveling platform for it first? These wide wheels would allow rapid transport over rough terrain, but if it isn't quite level when fired, surely that would affect aim? Carolly

Yes, he certainly did make a perfect Hornblower Carolly, and easy on the eyes at that! ;-) Chris will definitely know more about the specifics of the cannon, it's quite a passion of his.

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Carolly, this is mounted on a "Congrieve" block trail, a horse artillery carriage. They were used in all sorts of terrain and intended to be deployed and retreated rapidly. In the heat of battle they wouldn't have had time to produce a firing terrace. I imagine they just picked out the flatest spot.

So if you are trying to dismast a ship, you go for accuracy, but if your opponents are lined up like corn in a field, you just aim in their general direction and hope? I think I prefer finesse. ;^) Of course, if Napolean's men had crossed the channel, any piece of artillery would be appreciated. Thanks for the explanation, Carolly

One other thing to think about. No matter how level a shipboard platform, it's pitching and rolling all the time at sea.

That's why the vikings would lash ships together if fighting ship-to-ship and why they would pull away in high seas rather than risk bashing their longships to pieces (nobody wins if both boats go down). Considering how many ships Hornblower lost from under him, maybe the concept of coming back and fighting tomorrow when the seas are better shouldn't have been abandoned? Carolly

In Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin books ("Master & Commander" and 20 or so others), Capt. Aubrey's favorite gun was the "long nine" bow-chaser. Presumably a longer-barrelled version of the weapon under discussion. Not the heaviest ordnance aboard, but apparently the most accurate. He often aimed and fired it himself.

(BTW, my fellow blood-in-the-scuppers afficionadoes, O'Brian's books are far superior to Forrester's in 18th/19th century authenticity, language and character development. Don't judge by the movie, good as it was.)

Message edited on: 07/21/2004 15:03