I think the dimensions are direct scaled....relying on memory here. That was clear last year. I think what I did was draw a Napoleon for inch bore.
I drew for the AOP drawing. The actual Napoleon bore is larger than than 3x bore=breech diameter. Using the safety rule, I used a 3xbore to get 3 inch breech then scaled the original drawing down accordingly. If you use that scale and then use it with the AOP drawings to make the carriage and multiply the dimensions in the drawing by the scale factor every thing will fit-and look right. It you go changing dimension then the proportions will get out of whack with the carriage.
The only thing in this drawing that is not scale is the bore. Everything else is direct scaled from the original. True scaled bore would be 1.15". So for correct scale trunnion dimension is 1.15. Everything on the outside of the barrel will properly scaled, just the bore will be slightly smaller than scale.
I wanted this gun made to scale not fit to wood.
Zulu it is very hard to find any fault in your work, but if there is any, to my eye it is you make the wheels and cheeks of your smaller cannon too thick. They do not look right--they look fat.
The wider cheeks and wheels you make look just fine on the conceptual carriages you make to go on the conceptual guns the Michael makes.
This Napoleon is not a conceptual gun, it is a scale gun---on purpose.
If you guys work with this and keep the dimensions I have drawn and establish a product line based on these dimensions of this gun, it would justify someone tooling up and making wheels in this scale. This will lead to other guns built to the same scale that can use the same carriage and wheels.
The biggest stumbling block is the availability of wheels..It is expensive to set up and build one wheel, set up and build 20 or 40 of the same wheel and the cost goes down. If we get some one building those---hint, hint, then we will see a lot more field carriages here.
Inch is an appealing size. It will sell. Stick with me here guys, don't change anything.
