Heavy quad launcher WIP

[micahwc]

Based a lot on the towed 155mm I used to crew

 

http://i.imgur.com/KnsPwD1.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ikqLEqx.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/g2iW1dZ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/pTiv6aP.jpg

 

Body is a two inch long piece of 1/2" copper pipe, barrels are from a pen, as is the recoil hydraulic thingy on top. Carriage is made from sprue pieces. Tow pintle is green stuff. Axle is another pen, wheels are bases glued together, elevation wheel is from a sprue, breech block is a piece of cork from a wine bottle that was trimmed to fit the 1/2" tube. Wheel brake is another piece of spruez

Base plate is a larger base, and base plate extension is two pieces of sprue glued together.

 

Got imperial armor index today so I have some guns to make now.

[Tallarn Commander]

Nice conversion! Your ability to sculpt greenstuff is impressive.

[micahwc]

Thanks. I redid the wheels a it and shortened the wheel base so they are closer to the gun and slightly farther back. I need to get it painted and start some earthshaker batteries. This was kind of a practice run.

[micahwc]

Looking at some Earthshaker batteries

 

Dimensions given in the wikias are weird, and converted to 1/35 scale you get wonky numbers. For example, an Earthshaker cannon barrel inner diameter should be between 1/8" and 3/16". 5/32" is a hair large. That's closer to the size of a lascannon in game than to an actual Earthshaker. One set of dimensions for one pattern of Earthshaker, once converted to inches and 1/35 scale, is over 14" long and wide on the tabletop. Another is 9x4, which is probably what I will aim for. So the base will be roughly 4" square and the barrel will extend 7 inches from the center. I will fluff over the barrel diameter to make it larger, since it would be really tiny for game if I make it to scale.

 

For reference, I just measured the pencil in front of me and it is about 1/4" diameter, so it would be considerably larger than an Earthshaker cannon's inner diameter.