7 inch double bandd Brooke's rifle, 1/72 scale

**ct ertz** · #1 09-29-2009, 07:37 PM

I just put up a kit in the downloads for a 1/72 scale Brookes pivot on a navy carriage.

Some info on the gun:

7-inch double-banded Brooke rifle. Total length, 147.4 inches; weight, 15,000 pounds; total production, 62 (23 by Tredegar and 39 by Selma); known survivors, 8. Brooke made several minor modifications to this double-banded design during the period of their production. Like the early 6.4-inch rifles cast at Tredegar Foundry, the first 28 7-inch cast there initially had only a single band. Three of these are known to survive, but we have no reproducible photo available at this time. If any reader can provide one, we will gladly add it here and modify this text. The first six 7-inch Brooke rifles, including the two on CSS Virginia, were IX-inch Dahlgren gun blocks bored to seven inches, rifled and banded. No survivor exists to reveal their final profile.

If anyone makes it I would love pictures.

CT

**Wyvern** · #2 09-30-2009, 07:03 AM

Oh, I'll be making it, CT! And if I can get my balky 3-year-old digital camera to actually SAVE a picture....

Wyvern

**ct ertz** · #3 09-30-2009, 11:59 AM

Pictures would be great. I am also...when I have time... be setting one of these Brookes guns up on a coastal pivot of wood and brick...I think it will look nice.
CT

**ct ertz** · #4 10-01-2009, 07:45 AM

I just finished a fort mounted Brookes gun in 1/72 scale and would lik a tst build of it. If you are interested, please PM me!

**Papercut** · #5 10-04-2009, 11:23 AM

Boy, do I have a surprise for you, just returned from Charleston, S.C., with a load of Civil War Artillery photos, some of which, I will believe you will be most interested, to include the mounts. Will down load as soon as I can, just got in, but wanted to let you know I was thinking of you when I took these.

Rick PS: Sign me up for the Gun buils w/mount! :D

**Papercut** · #6 10-04-2009, 03:08 PM

Here are a few little toys @ Ft Moultrie, Charleston, S.C.

**Wyvern** · #7 10-04-2009, 03:18 PM

Great pics! I bet Corey will be able to incorporate a lot of that detail into his designs!

Wyvern

**Papercut** · #8 10-04-2009, 03:26 PM

Some more pieces.

**ct ertz** · #9 10-06-2009, 05:39 AM

Here is a few pics of the pivot gun built by Greg 30-06. He did an outstanding job on it I think. A little thread for the control ropes and it would be ready to put into or onto any Reb Ironclad!

Thanks Greg, looking good.

CT

**Wyvern** · #10 10-06-2009, 07:15 AM

Sharp!

Wyvern