"Waterloo 1815 British Paratroopers with Pack Howitzer" Topic

I was lucky to acquire a second hand set:
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The box was complete except for no assembly instructions. There are 12, mostly tiny parts & I have no idea of what goes where.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

I looked around and didn't find anything. Did you try Benno's?

Thanks.

John

Waterloo 1815 has the American 75 mm howitzer shown under World War II--Americans--Other here: link

Here is their comment.
. The box includes some very basic diagrams to aid assembly which, however, are wrong in two respects. They show the trail connecting mechanism assembly as horizontal when it should be between the sides of the trail, and they show the lunette (the tow element) upside down. Once you find the necessary photographs to tell you how it actually should be put together, and you persuade all the parts to go where they should, the result is very pleasing, and judging by photographs of the real thing it is pretty accurate too, with relatively little lost to the cause of simplification.

The photo with the American crew shows what might be a telephone, which could go near the gun. The British set has nine shells.

Wikipedia has a line drawing, with various pieces labeled, which might help. They also have some photos. link

Good luck!

Grelber

Close call, my 95th rifles started thinking they wete going to get to jumpmout of airplanes

14Bore – yes, a weirdly named manufacturer.

Thanks for the suggestions above. I can obviously work out that the tube fits above the trail & there are wheels attached. It's the pile of other, small bits.

I have posted this on LAWs as well.

I believe "luck" will be needed!

My first thought was to wonder whether this had some sort of Ridley Scott connection 😉

We 1/72 folk are used to the weirdness of this manufacturer's name so it's a surprise to see the reaction.

At any rate, Dal over at LAWs suggested looking at this schema:
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which although for a larger scaled & moredetailed model, has all the pieces I have & shows where they go.

I've also found this:
YouTube link

The instruction sheet is shown! As you can see, it couldn't be any more basic. But useful.

The best thing about the video is that the narrator says what can go wrong. I've cut (using clippers & not a hobby knife) the pieces off and "dry assembled"the gun. He's right – some pieces are not practical and holes are too small & it's fragile etc but I think I can do it.

I got 4 gun models in the box BTW (should have been 3?) and as I only need two, I have a margin of trial & error to work with.

There is a great French site, to which I regularly contribute. A chap there has made a great job of detailing the Waterloo 1815 howitzer, for mountain use. Although in French, Google translate soon reveals the King's English;

link