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Title: 18th Century Gunners with real mini cannon
Post by: HDTM on August 26, 2019, 10:20:06

as promised here is the first test with the finished mini cannon https://youtu.be/bVtksl2VwXk

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tW1qC35cud0/XWOxGyLMbPI/AAAAAAAAAKo/SCAGwLljO9E7J4jITaANefEEqO36GUQuwCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/IMG_20190825_210915_414.jpg)

Ignition mechanism https://youtu.be/Pc1LMrAJ59w

Title: Re: 18th Century Gunners with real mini cannon
Post by: Macruran on September 01, 2019, 18:21:27

 :clap: :captain:

Title: Re: 18th Century Gunners with real mini cannon
Post by: Hadoque on September 03, 2019, 05:00:37

Do you fire your cannons with powder only or are there cannonballs flying towards your enemy´s klickies, ships and fortifications?  ;D

Title: Re: 18th Century Gunners with real mini cannon
Post by: HDTM on September 03, 2019, 07:38:24

Hi Hadoque! for the moment the cannons are loaded only with small firecrackers ... but the idea is just to shoot cannonballs. Except I'm a little scared of using klickies as targets. I was in fact thinking about building a small wooden fort ... I just don't know where to start ???
Another idea is to load the cannon with 2 firecrackers. One behind and one as a bullet.
This way I can fire a firecracker that will explode against fortifications or klickies without forever crippling them

Title: Re: 18th Century Gunners with real mini cannon
Post by: tahra on September 03, 2019, 07:51:56

Quote from: HDTM on September 03, 2019, 07:38:24

Except I'm a little scared of using klickies as targets.

You CANNOT.

 :'(

Title: Re: 18th Century Gunners with real mini cannon
Post by: GrahamB on September 03, 2019, 08:06:10

Quote from: tahra on September 03, 2019, 07:51:56

You CANNOT.

 :'(

Unless they have THAT hair!  :lol:

Title: Re: 18th Century Gunners with real mini cannon
Post by: tahra on September 03, 2019, 08:39:10

Quote from: GrahamB on September 03, 2019, 08:06:10

Unless they have THAT hair!  :lol:

No, even with THAT hair!

Title: Re: 18th Century Gunners with real mini cannon
Post by: Hadoque on September 05, 2019, 11:03:20

As a kid, I and a friend sometimes used to shoot with ... Lego at our klickies.  :-[  8}
We had built a kind of crossbow with Lego. We used rails from the Lego Train theme, 2 put next to each other, and then several more after one another. On the rails you could put other Lego pieces upside down and with a strong, large elastic band you could shoot them away with rather high velocity. One shot easily whiped out a Playmobil gun-position and it´s artillery-crew. No klicky ever died, but some sustained "serious injuries". Actually it was a rather dangergous thing if I think about it now, good we never fired it at each other or at another person, or at my grandma´s porcelain cabinet. The US Navy and the Chinese Navy (PLAN) are now developing magnetic "railguns" to shoot at one another, though I´m not sure if they too use Lego for it.

Title: Re: 18th Century Gunners with real mini cannon
Post by: NICO on November 06, 2019, 15:31:22

Superb!!

KA-BOOM!!!

Title: Re: 18th Century Gunners with real mini cannon
Post by: playmofire on November 06, 2019, 15:57:25

An impressive demonstration.