If you can find the plans for an artillery piece, that’s great. They can only help. I have plans for the 88mm German anti-tank gun, for example.
I couldn’t find anything like that for the Bofors gun, though. I built it from the specifications, videos, and photos I could find. If you can use a drawing program like Visio, you can resize an image of the piece to a known scale using the barrel length or some other specification. Afterwards, you measure individual components and a rough idea of how big everything should be. In the end, just do your best and try to make it close. It’s very challenging to turn a paintball marker into a perfect true to scale artillery cannon. Heck, if we were really sticklers for true scale, we’d toss out those funky PzII’s !!! - Doug From: rctankcombat@googlegroups.com [mailto:rctankcombat@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Caleb Smith Sent: Monday, July 21, 2014 3:26 PM To: rctankcombat@googlegroups.com Subject: [TANKS] Re: Photos from last event I'm hoping I can get it done in time, but who knows. I'm wondering, do you guys use plans to build artillery or just build it to look close? I want to do a QF 3.7 in AA gun, but I can't find any sort of plans for one. On Sunday, July 20, 2014 10:36:40 AM UTC-4, jvragu47 wrote: Excellent new Caleb. Be good to have you and the family attend again.. There should be plenty of assets to use if you're not able to finish your artillery piece. Building one of those will be will help when you decide to make a vehicle. After all, tanks and armored cars are just mobile artillery pieces for the most part.. See you in 4 weeks. John On Saturday, July 19, 2014 7:27:48 PM UTC-4, Caleb Smith wrote: Hey, John! Sorry for not getting back sooner, my aunt was in from WI and I'm finally getting caught up on internet stuff. Looking at the calendar, we don't have anything planned for that date, so we're planning on coming. Had a blast at the last event, so I'm really looking forward to this one. I'm even thinking about building an artillery piece since I had so much fun with Doug's Bofors. On Friday, July 11, 2014 9:32:00 PM UTC-4, jvragu47 wrote: On Friday, July 11, 2014 9:38:13 AM UTC-4, Caleb Smith wrote: More too come.... @John: I was talking to my dad and we would be very interested in coming to the battle and take some video. Do you have a date yet? Yes Caleb. It will be Sunday August 24th at Gettysburg again. Would love to see the family again. -- -- You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. To post a message, send email to rctankcombat@googlegroups.com <mailto:rctankcombat@googlegroups.com> To unsubscribe, send email to rctankcombat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <mailto:rctankcombat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com> Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R/C Tank Combat" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rctankcombat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <mailto:rctankcombat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. To post a message, send email to rctankcombat@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe, send email to rctankcombat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R/C Tank Combat" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rctankcombat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
