The gun has finally been completed, mission accomplished. The final assembly wasn't free from surprises and collateral damage, with several details breaking, detaching or simply flying off  . All was patiently re-crafted, repaired and assembled again. Particular care was given to reproduce faithfully the lines for the muzzle cap and the breech plug. Here's the result:



Below: Gulliver is manning the gun, Falo!



The gun was then dry-fitted to its pedestal. Both will be kept separated until their final assembly onto the submarine deck. The leaning forward is due to the unstable dry-fitting and it's just temporary. The bottom left pic compares the gun to its sibling provided in the submarine kit. Now you know the reason why i threw myself into this 9-year project and was so stubborn not to abandon it despite the high-and-lows of life  .  I would like to dedicate this important achievement to all of you and in particular to Tore. All my gratitude for the support received all over these years goes to our Dougie Martindale, to fellow modellers Marek Targowicz at Shelf Oddity, EJ Foeth at ontheslipway.com and to Mr Kai Steenbuck at the Deutsches U-Boot Museum. A toast to you all!




Cheers,


SG


PS the blog's updated: https://3xblackcats.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/8-8-cm45-3-46-sk-c35-gun/ . Once again, remember to scroll down to the bottom to see the latest progress if you decide to visit.

I would not have believed that Gulliver now also travels in the submarine.

    my pleasure, Falo. Thanks for dropping by!

(the novel character of J. Swift I mean)

 PS: It's definitely him,  Alex and his "droogs" friends are not allowed on board .

Hi Dougie,
Vanguard from OTW??

Working on the Navigation lights. I am going for the more tradional way. Red for left, green for right.
These leds are watertight, i am using the same leds for my 3D printed street lights, only they are warm white.


The Bronco manual way.


Example. The commissioning of U-2332. The Oberleutnant zur See is Dieter Bornkessel.


Dieter Bornkessel on the right with his former Commander from U-354, Karl-Heinz Herbschleb.


Have a nice Sunday.

Regards,

Ron.

Hi SG,
Really good work, as always. Interesting you found a different style, I suppose we should expect differences between weapons and that styles would not be just on U-boats. The more we study, the more differences we find.
Cheers,
Dougie

Hi,
I finally managed to complete and superdetail the tiny elevation and traversing safety harnesses and to assemble them to the lower lateral arms and then to the gun mount. The insane feat took me 9 months with an average of 2 modelling sessions per week and plenty of intervals between the sessons. Unfortunately at this stage of the build each time a detail is added the risk of causing "the house of card" to crumble grows more and more. It has become increasingly difficult, time consuming and potentially disastrous.

Am therefore proud to show you the baroque-looking    result of my modelling efforts: 




Curiosities. As usual, the in-depth photographic study of the gun components brought me to notice oddities and different styles: first of all the location of the adjusting handles. Elevation harnesses arms handles: starboard one located forward (unnamed arrow ), port one pointing aft (b). Lower arms adjusting handles: aft side of each main arm (e) and top of each transverse section (f). The traversing harnesses arms handles were located on the port side of each arm (c, d). "lambda" joints squared eyelets: early (right/top and right/center pics) eyelets sat higher than their late counterparts (top row, central picture). The upper arms levers (g) were an early feature. They had a very important purpose as they were the triggers to fire the gun.They branched with a 60-degree angle from the main axis of the upper arm. The starboard lever pointed aft while the port one pointed forward. I identified a different, apparently late variant made of a crank (h) pointing forward and a lateral L-shaped lever extending aft (i) which was probably the late version of the trigger lever. This variant equipped famous boats such as U 96, U 552, U 73 and U 203. U 96 and U 552 modellers you've been warned!
 





The superdetailed elevation harnesses waiting to be added to the mount and the usual comparison picture dedicated to Falo 




Ah, the blog's updated too: https://3xblackcats.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/8-8-cm45-3-46-sk-c35-gun/ remember to scroll down to the bottom to see the latest progress if you decide to visit.

Cheers,
SG