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Offline oltom

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well, back to the drawing board~
« on: December 13, 2009, 01:58:59 AM »
I think this paperweight needs a "old ironsides" cannon carrige, don't look like a filed piece type of cannon. i made a quick-ee field type just to kinda see~

nope.gonna build a ship type of carriage.....
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Re: well, back to the drawing board~
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2009, 04:17:23 AM »
I agree Naval .

eta a grasshopper type Rev.war carriage would also look nice . A 3lber or 4 maybe ?
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Re: well, back to the drawing board~
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2009, 04:55:08 AM »
here you got the original museum drawings used to build the reconstruction carriages to the vasa ship
maybe you can borrow some design ideas from them
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« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2009, 04:56:46 AM »
the second picture
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Re: well, back to the drawing board~
« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2009, 05:04:35 AM »
or a little more modern naval carriage

or an older field carriage
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