{"id":6822,"date":"2024-10-22T19:58:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T18:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6822"},"modified":"2024-10-22T19:58:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T18:58:54","slug":"emhar-18-pounder-qf-field-gun-still-working-on-the-replacement-gun-shield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6822","title":{"rendered":"Emhar 18 Pounder QF Field Gun &#8211; Still working on the replacement gun shield"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since my last post on Saturday I have made a bit more progress. As I mentioned I wasn&#8217;t too happy with the way that I had done the &#8216;hinges&#8217; principally because the gap in them was too large but also because I had an itch to try to make them articulate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I started on the bottom section because that was where the the gap between the two plates was greatest. I took the plunge and cut off all the lower sections of the hinge leaving just a&nbsp;small overhang behind. Then I cut some 2mm lengths of microbore brass tube and soldered them under the overhangs of the remains of the hinge plates. Then I measured the gaps in between and cut and fitted some more lengths of tube in between these were nominally 10mm but since I didn&#8217;t get the 2mm pieces exactly perfect they had to be custom fit in&nbsp;to each gap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I fed a length of 0.4mm wire through all the lengths and tack soldered the longer lengths to the centre section of the shield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1-New-Out01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"993\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1-New-Out01-993x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6823\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1-New-Out01-993x1024.jpg 993w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1-New-Out01-291x300.jpg 291w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1-New-Out01-768x792.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1-New-Out01.jpg 1241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 993px) 100vw, 993px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">18 Pounder Gun Shield Parts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1-New-Out02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"922\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1-New-Out02-922x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6824\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1-New-Out02-922x1024.jpg 922w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1-New-Out02-270x300.jpg 270w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1-New-Out02-768x853.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1-New-Out02.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 922px) 100vw, 922px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">18 Pounder Gun Shield Parts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since my last post on Saturday I have made a bit more progress. As I mentioned I wasn&#8217;t too happy with the way that I had done the &#8216;hinges&#8217; principally because the gap in them was too large but also &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6822\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wwi-armour-modelling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6825,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6822\/revisions\/6825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}