Bishop Hobbies

FULL SCALE NAVAL CANNON

9/13/2023

Back in the fall of 2018 I really felt that I should have a historic naval cannon.  A full scale one.  It turns out that at the time there was a company in New Zealand that made them.  They were something like polyurethane and weighed 8 pounds.  Not perfect, but the price was right.   I would make do with a non-firing cannon.

So – the cannon barrel arrived, and it was great.  Now I needed a gun carriage.  I searched the web for cannon carriage designs like our navy used in the 1750 to 1850 time period.  I made the everything out of wood and plastic in my shop – even the blocks.  There are metal bolt rods where they should be.  It was a lot of fun.  I searched for the various sized of rope I needed and rigged it up and there you have it.

12/28/2013  I built this Italeri 1/48 MH-60K BlackHawk SOA helicopter for my son Barry who had just gone through a 9 hour open heart surgery a couple of months before.  The kit is a straight forward build, but the instructions leave a little to be desired.  That said this is a great kit and I would build it again.  I also used the Eduard FE497 MH-60K interior set which is very nice, but you can hardly see any of the instrument panels when it's all closed up.  I also used the Eduard mask set for this and found it to be very useful.  I painted to overall Tamiya olive drab and when decaled it looked very nice.  On to the pictures…