Excellent.

Scratchbuilt waterline model of USS Dunderberg, aka MN Rochambeau.  What makes her whiffy, is she's build with both casemate and turret.

That's neat 

Quote from: NARSES2 on September 04, 2024, 05:47:08 AMThe last Tempest V built was tested with 40mm "P" guns in extremely slender pods.

Weren't those actually 42mm?

A Typhoon with Hurricane "S" pods in on my to-do list, to go with my spinning-discus-bomb equipped one.

Quote from: NARSES2 on October 15, 2024, 05:38:37 AMThat's neat 

The "as completed per US Navy contract revisions" version'll be making an appearance in the Elven Blend thread.    Or at least a repainted profile of her will be

Quote from: Weaver on October 15, 2024, 05:42:34 AM

Quote from: NARSES2 on September 04, 2024, 05:47:08 AMThe last Tempest V built was tested with 40mm "P" guns in extremely slender pods.

Weren't those actually 42mm?

My Putnam's says "40mm P guns"

Quote from: NARSES2 on October 15, 2024, 05:48:45 AM

Quote from: Weaver on October 15, 2024, 05:42:34 AM

Quote from: NARSES2 on September 04, 2024, 05:47:08 AMThe last Tempest V built was tested with 40mm "P" guns in extremely slender pods.

Weren't those actually 42mm?

My Putnam's says "40mm P guns"

According to Tony Williams (the "Flying Guns" guy) we're both wrong, and they were actually 47mm:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160319192518/http://quarryhs.co.uk/Pgun.htm

Quote from: Weaver on October 15, 2024, 05:56:27 AMAccording to Tony Williams (the "Flying Guns" guy) we're both wrong, and they were actually 47mm:

Can't think what they would have been origionaly developed for or from (that link doesn't work for me), but I'll see if I can find a couple of works I've got on the development of British artillery pieces from 1900. And yes I still prefer the written/printed word to the Net, I've gotten old 

Quote from: NARSES2 on October 15, 2024, 06:18:39 AM

Quote from: Weaver on October 15, 2024, 05:56:27 AMAccording to Tony Williams (the "Flying Guns" guy) we're both wrong, and they were actually 47mm:

Can't think what they would have been origionaly developed for or from (that link doesn't work for me), but I'll see if I can find a couple of works I've got on the development of British artillery pieces from 1900. And yes I still prefer the written/printed word to the Net, I've gotten old 

Oops, sorry. Looks like the forum won't auto-format the URL as a hotlink because it's got another "http" in the middle of it. Click on this instead:

Tony Williams 47mm P gun article

That works better. That's article is interesting.
Thanks for posting it.

Cheers H that works. 

Very interesting. Interestingly the photograph in Putnam's Hawker Aircraft is taken from a slightly different angle and is slightly clearer, but all marginal.

I may well look at a Tempest II armed with a pair of them now, it looks relatively easy to fabricate.

Quote from: NARSES2 on October 16, 2024, 05:38:53 AMCheers H that works. 

Very interesting. Interestingly the photograph in Putnam's Hawker Aircraft is taken from a slightly different angle and is slightly clearer, but all marginal.

I may well look at a Tempest II armed with a pair of them now, it looks relatively easy to fabricate.

Go for it!

Quote from: kerick on October 16, 2024, 06:59:18 AM

Quote from: NARSES2 on October 16, 2024, 05:38:53 AMI may well look at a Tempest II armed with a pair of them now, it looks relatively easy to fabricate.

Go for it!

KP Tempest II has gone on the list to pick up at Telford