Vickers Bl 8 inch Howitzer cannon of 1917

I love this.

Great progress Mal, well done!

Great work Mal, looking excellent and so nice to see a different type of subject, great also that you have to design all of this from the full size.

Ron

I know how you feel.

This is so good it makes me want to howl with a mixture of envy, and embarrasment at my own efforts.

Magnificent work Mal. It will be great to see this when it can be exhibited.

Alan

Superb as usual Mal; itching to see how you work the breech block.

George.

Lovely build, a credit to you.

I am thinking of doing a Pak40, just trying to get some drawings/dimensions together, but seeing this I will have to up my game

This really is shaping up to be a superb model.

Hello all

Thanks for the comments and interest in the Howitzer build ,Richard the pak40 would make a very nice model what sort of scale are you thinking of building it in .

Well small update on the Howitzer build not really got much more done than the last post not down to shed time but everything I have made lately I've managed to mess up on by silly mistakes and the part ends up in the scrap bin, what I did manage to make is the carriage bearing and bolt so it fastens from the underside and started on some of the tin work to cover the carriage, couple of pictures below of my very slow progress .

Thanks Mal

Looking great Mal! fully boxed frames - long before the hot rodders got onto the idea.....Cheers

I'm gasping for an update

Robert Butler

Hope he's ok

I found a booklet with 88mm details and I think the source site will have a lot of other historical military stuff for those people who are interested in militaria

Edited By Ady1 on 04/05/2022 00:13:11

Hi Mal hope all is well. I wondered if you would be taking your Howitzer to the show at Midlands exhibition center this year. Many people would love to see it.

David

Hello everyone, I have been working on moving the shed about and making it bigger ,haven't done any progress on the Howitzer since the last post but will start up again as soon as thing's are sorted. David may be next year when the build is a bit more together.

Thanks Mal.

Edited By mal webber on 12/05/2022 22:27:44

Hi all ,well no room for the Howitzer in the shed at the moment so thought I would have a go at the breach threads which went all wrong towards the end, not realising that the dividing head had slipped and managed to brake of the tip of the cutting tool with out realising that it had so this being a total fail but second attempt will be started soon, thought I would put up some pics as not posted in a while even if its a fail

Edited By mal webber on 12/05/2022 22:44:50

Forgot to mention this was not in scale with the Howitzer in size or the number of threads just a practice run at trying to figure it out , lots of lessons learned by trying so will see how the second attempt will go.

Thanks Mal.

Seeing this thread up and running again has made my day.

Glad you're well Mal!

Dom

Hi Mal watching this with interest from Australia. My Grand father was is the Siege Artillery in WW1. Im hoping to build one of these soon, not as big as yours though

If you decide you wanna go for a Firearm Cert and shoot it, I've still got some Cordite MDT 5-2 taken from 303 Mk.VII ball, that should work fine if you chop it coarsely...