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Hello Fellow Forum Members, after a search of the Forum and not turning anything up, I was just curious as to whether or not there has been a topic where all the forum members could post pictures of their "pet" projects starting, in-progress or completed with information on dimensions, suppliers of fittings & parts etc. to help out new & old members who are either considering taking-on or are mid-project and have ground to a halt based on any number of issues that have faced any of us who have ever built a cannon, mortar or a howitzer in any scale. I will start with this one which is my 18in. barrelled field gun. I started out with what I discovered later was the drawings from the John Muller book A Treatise of Artillery 1780 ("the bible")at the time I only had photo copies of the drawings from the book without the dimension charts and I had the rough casting for the barrel. The timber used in construction of this piece is silky oak for the “cheeks” and turpentine gum for the axle tree and it is coated with Cabots (an Australian brand) maple varnish stain and the iron trimmings have been cold blued and are fixed with pyramid head screws from a company called Horton Brasses (part number ph-6) Its dimensions are as follows overall length 3ft. 4in. overall width 1ft. 10in. wheel diameter 16in. and the barrel as previously mentioned is 18in. long and is cold blued cast iron and it has a seamless liner cast in which gives a calibre of .750, should you require any further information ask away, Regards, Broadarrow