New WW1 Artillery Model

**CharlieC** · #1 11-30-2020, 06:53 PM

A new cardmodel by Wayne McCullough - a 1:48 Canon de 155L Mle 1877 de Bange.

The de Bange gun was one of the many types of old fortress guns deployed to the front when the French Army realised in 1914 that they were critically short of the heavy artillery required for attritional (trench) warfare. The de Bange gun, in spite of its age and lack of recoil absorption, was highly regarded and served on after WW1 and into WW2. It was used as supporting artillery of the Maginot line until 1940.

The model can be built as an artillery piece with recoil ramps, with "ceinture de roue" (girdles on the wheels) and as a fortress gun with hydraulic buffer.

Usual place - landships.info/models.html

[ I haven't got an image of a built de Bange model yet so one of the construction diagrams will have to surfice.]

regards,

Charlie

**Don Boose** · #2 11-30-2020, 07:06 PM

Glad to see this, Charlie! Wayne has been talking about it during the twice-monthly Saturday Zoom sessions.

An interesting artillery piece.

Don

**CharlieC** · #3 11-30-2020, 07:24 PM

Thanks Don, it was an incredibly long serving artillery piece. Not only did the Mle 1877 serve until 1940 in France but the barrels were reused in two different WW1 guns with recoil absorbers - the Mle 1877/1914 and Mle 1918 guns. It also was used in the Spanish Civil War and by the Finnish Army against the Russians in WW2.

Regards,

Charlie

**rifleman** · #4 12-01-2020, 11:15 AM

thank you sir for the heads up on this

**rifleman** · #5 12-01-2020, 11:20 AM

sorry to say all seam to get is a 404 message

**Don Boose** · #6 12-01-2020, 01:23 PM

I also got a 404 with the URL Charlie posted, but Googled Landships II and got into the site with no trouble at Landships II

Click on "Models."

Don

**rifleman** · #7 12-01-2020, 02:17 PM

it is working fine now just got it

**CharlieC** · #8 12-01-2020, 03:00 PM

Seems to be ok now.

I've had issues with that web server cache clasping old versions of files to its bosom in a death grip. Eventually the server will update the file but it can take a while.

The URL I quoted was wrong - got mixed up with the URL of my local webserver it should be: Landships II

I plead old age and stupidity - the first is undeniable the second may be well be.

Charlie

**Butelczynski** · #9 12-01-2020, 05:35 PM

Old gun or not,it was still put to good use in Finland but wear,age and bulk of it limited its use.Good read about them here FINNISH ARMY 1918 - 1945: ARTILLERY PART 2

**John Wagenseil** · #10 12-01-2020, 05:37 PM

Is there any evidence that the 1877 de Bang Cannon was ever towed by a Schneider artillery tractor?