New

A bit more done at the field gun and it’s ready for paint now I think.

Photos of the real thing show a couple of levers at the front. so I added those from small brass turnings and rod. The one on the right (left as you look from the front) isn’t strictly accurate as it had a more complicated mechanism that it was attached to but I can’t make it out clear enough to models it.

Next I made what I think is the trigger. Emhar had a representation visible in earlier photos but it was again placed on the centre line and a bit undernourished. It was also curiously hollow with an open side which I have represented from filed down microbore tube.

Last but not least on the left of the carriage behind the shield was a hand wheel, presumably somehting to do with adjusting the sighting.

I turned one up on the lathe and I was so pleased with it I decided to replace the ring of plastic that I had added to the elevation screw with a proper turned wheel tapped 10ba.

Shown with my giant sized 5 pence piece for scale…

Since taking the photos I have added some brass chains to the rear of the gun shield.