1/24 British Cannonade

[DRUMS01]

I've had this kit for many, many years. The parts were in a segregated bottom box along with an exploded diagram with some written instruction. I bought the kit I believe from Model Expo when they use to send out flyers in the mail (1980's). I think the manufacturer was Mantua or Mamoli or something like that (?).

I believe it is suppose to represent a British Naval Cannonade and I think it is 1/24 scale. It is a stick build, not a new style lazer cut job. There are three types of woods (cherry, black walnut, and popular), brass, copper, plastic, other metals, and rigging. The keg and water bucket are pre-molded items in some kind of resin/plastic; everything else was assembled. I still have a few spare black walnut deck boards and some very, very, small brass pin nails.

I wish I had the original box to identify it further, perhaps somebody in the forum can better identify it for me. I've googled it over the years but cannot find any kind of image of the exact build-up. It was a really fun build though....taking about two weeks of a few hours here and there.

I will definitely build something like it again.

Comments welcome..... Ben

[RangerNeil]

Recoil slide and traverse definitely say Carronade - the mount position less so although the RN did experiment with all carrronade armed Frigates briefly. Issue was very big ball + very small gun = very short range in comparison to a normal long 24 pounder. The favoured mounting position, IIRC, was on the bow as a bow chaser - esp, on a ship of the line. Those were in the order of 68 lb weapons and were nicknamed "smashers" for good reason. The shot fired was either solid which would rip through flimsy stern timbers and possibly bring down a mast or a form of grape in a thin walled container that held form until abruptly stopped by, say, the stern timbers of a ship or the first gun carriage it came across at which point it disgorged all the grape shot which had unimpeded access the length of the gun decks....

[BigWall]

That is a very neat kit and well done.