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Hi you all!


 


Good thing is that I was able to climb it, so some angles are bit unusual. Sometimes the fingers of yours truly are included, but I hope you won’t mind…


 


Hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I enjoyed it doing it for you…


 


I



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Yvan Stefanos (Ivan Stefanovic)


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Great photos, Yvan, thanks! Again, good angles and detail shots.


Interestingly, that gun appears to have an extra section on the front of the cradle - it appears to be a riveted tube, clearly shown in PICT0029 and PICT0042, inside which the barrel slides and which doesn't appear on other photos I've seen.



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Roger -


Are you refering to the sleeve-like extention before the cradle?  If so, that is the "wiege", or counter-weight sweated to the barrel.  It provided both balance, and tube strength.


Ivan - Did you also take detail photographs of the Rohrwagen ?   It is, to my knowledge, the only example still in existance.


 



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Hi 28juni1914 - ah, you mean to counterbalance the heavy breech? Interesting, thanks! Presumably it was a later addition.

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Dear 28 VI 14,


 


Rohrwagen?


You mean the carriage? I already posted those in the forum under the name ‘Skoda carriage’.


 


Can you tell me more about the usage of it. Was it designed to carry ammunition, the base for the gun  or both?


 


I am bit ignorant about artillery, but I would sure like to scratchbuild this one…


 


Best,


 


I


 



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Yvan Stefanos (Ivan Stefanovic)


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Ivan!


THANKS for your pics! Great! I've always wanted to see photos of the Belgrade 30.5cm.


I will post them on the site as well, of course giving the full credits to you.


Do you have more???


Again: many, many thanks!



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Peter,


 


Do you mean more photos of 305? For those I’ll have to go to the museum again, but there are a lot of photos I took.


 


I repeat – a large part of exhibition is going trough restoration so it is not accessible now.


 


I guess I’ll ask you some more later as there are things that I am sctratchbuilding and that I would like to make…


 


Till soon,


 


I


 


 



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Ivan -


Ah, now I see where you have posted the additonal pictures.  The rohrwagen was used, as the name emplies, to transport the barrel(rohr in German).  The 30,5cm M11 was moved in 3 seperate loads.  The rohrwagen carried the barrel, another wagon (bettungswagen) the huge folding fireing base, and the last wagen (seen at the museum with the barrel mounted: lafettenwagen)) was actually the cradle and carraige with detachable fore & aft sets of wheels(protzen).  Often, as an expediency, the barrel was left mounted when relocating short distances to alternate fire positons . (Necessary because of enemy counter-batterie action). 


Again, to my knowledge, Roverto has the carraige and tube, Prague the carraige and tube, but only Belgrade the carraige, tube, and rorhwagen.   Sadly, I've am not aware of the bettungswagen having survived anywhere.



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Ivan!


No, not more of the 305 - they are just great. I meant more pics of WW1 Artillery. And I see that my prayers are answered with the Deport and the Russian 122mm.


Again: many, many thanks!



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