17th Century Naval Cannon

[Tirick]

The diorama is now complete, using a bit of thin thread, embroidery floss and parts from the Man at Arms and Expansion. Needless to say, I'm quite pleased with the result (although its used up my 'store' of pre-built figurine components).

I've a large collection of images, although I'll only display a few here, the rest will be in the inline links.

To start, I've a few shots of the emplacement before I added figures. I regret not using a white background, but its too late to correct now. I used thick thread for the tackle and embroidery floss for the cascabel rope. The floss is very lightly woven, so I had a bit of a fight keeping it together. They are about 1" and 2" to scale respectively (I built it to 1:50).



A side angle

Top down

Another angle

Assembling the figures took about 2-3 hours, about 1/2 hour per figure. I only modeled 5, rather than the typical 6 as I do not have a figure suitable for a powder monkey. These first few shots are before I touched up the white spaces, to give you an idea of the detail right from assembly.



Side View

Along the gun

From above

Another angle

To give you a sense of scale, the whole assembly fits in the palm of my hand:



Finally, I took a 1/2 hour to touch up the obvious whitespaces, and present the final diorama.



Side view

Along the gun

Opposite side

Bit of a top-angle view

Enjoy!
Tirick