"resin Krupp guns-too frail for the table top?" Topic
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| Doc Ord | 29 Sep 2015 10:59 a.m. PST |
I recenty purchased some North Star Prussian Krupp guns and crew. These are very fine models. The gunners are metal but the guns are made from resin. I assembled the guns with some difficulty. I'm still not sure how to fit on the elevating mechanism. There was lots of flash. The guns seem awfully frail. I may have to replace them with metal guns. They will be mounted on stands which will help some. Anybody have any experience with resin artillery? I used contact cement and wonder if something else would work better. Superglue wouldn't hold. |
 ColCampbell  | 29 Sep 2015 12:30 p.m. PST |
Mark, From the pictures these are nice guns, but you do know that they were relegated to the "scrap heap" by 1870 with the advent of the steel, breech loading Krupp guns. These, I believe, are muzzle loading guns. Jim |
| Mollinary | 29 Sep 2015 12:48 p.m. PST |
You are correct regarding the 12pdr, but the 4pdr is the breech loading Krupp gun that served alongside the 6pdr in the FPW. Mollinary |
| ColCampbell | 29 Sep 2015 1:20 p.m. PST |
Ah, you are correct. I wasn't looking at the breech and trail close enough. Thanks, Jim |
| Doc Ord | 29 Sep 2015 4:23 p.m. PST |
The Prussians still used a lot of 12 pdr smooth bores in 1866. |
| Mollinary | 30 Sep 2015 3:30 a.m. PST |
Absolutely, Doc, about a third of their inventory. And they were not old guns, but new light 12pdrs M59 which equipped the Horse Artillery batteries and some of the Corps Reserve Field artillery batteries. Mollinary |
| Doc Ord | 30 Sep 2015 8:19 a.m. PST |
I'm using the same Prussian army for 1866 and 1870 but plan on replacing some of my krupp batteries with 12 pdrs. |
| mashrewba | 01 Oct 2015 10:37 a.m. PST |
…and to be fair they are part of the 1866 range.
I must say I was puzzled by the decision to mould these in resin-it's just not a robust enough material. |
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