@@mlzcrusher4660 You don't get it? Oompaloompas are very small, their ships and the waters they sail would also be small. I hope that clears the joke up for you.
I've seen modern signal cannons such as wine cork mortars but never a deck gun that fires a .22 round. It might bring excitement and new meaning to "Oh, you sunk my battleship!"
I see various types from time to time. I was watching a quite bit larger one that went to auction this weekend, but I just didn't have the budget for it. They are always unique, so its really interesting to see how each one varies
@@zyanidwarfare5634 me and my cousins would build boats and forts made out of legos and shoot them with .22s, whoever destroyed the others with the least shots would win.
I want 30 of these mounted to a spice rack and a TV tray and when someone breaks into my trailer I can dispatch them spanish galleon style from the comfort of my futon.
Just for reference, if you wanted to make a to-scale IJN Yamato with a 22 cannon (the largest and most heavily armed battleship ever, with 18in guns), the model would need to be over 3 meters (10ft) long. That's from a diameter-of-the-barrel perspective.
This doesn't match any of the plans I have found so far. Are you talking about the model engineering quick firing gun plans? Those are quite nice, nicer than this by far. Funny timing, I was actually going to try to find some other plans I have and send them to you. I saw you had those plans on your site.
@@mars_man9971 These typically were projects built by apprentices to show what they had learned. The amount of detail greatly varies based on the quality of the student and/or the amount of time they had to complete them. The higher detail parts were not dimensioned on many of the plans and left to the maker to built to their desire. The barrel and recoil action parts as well as base are very close to the Model Engineer plans but it looks like the builder might not have had a lathe that could cut threads or the skill.
@@Mongo63a If I remember correctly, the model engineer plans were a sliding breechblock instead of screw block? I have them saved somewhere. I haven't seen plans for any screw breech before, while I have seen a couple for sliding breeches. If you do have plans for one, I would like to see it. I like all the one off models made for various purposes like mentioned, proof of skill, practice, gifts, promotional or sales items, etc, so I try to save any pictures or plans as I find them for both steam engines and cannons like this.
@@Mongo63a I hadn't seen the plans for this one before, thanks. Although, this predates the plans (or at least that print of them) by 25 years. I have an old lathe book somewhere that has some sliding breech plans I need to find if your interested
Imagine a model battleships that come with these things. You annoying cousins ain't gonna mess with your model battleships no more after you pull the trigger
Adimiral John is a man of focus, commitment, sheer will... something you know very little about. I once saw him shoot down three Zeros from his office... With a desk gun, with a fucking .22 Desk Canon. Then suddenly one day he asked to leave.
In 1922, the tech didn't yet exist for the larger variants known today. So, these were mounted to the decks of U.S. gunships. They were remarkably effective assuming someone's eye was directly in front on the barrel.
Damn I always thought ship cannons were huge, didn't occur to me they were actually this small. Incredible how such a small thing could inflict so much damage! Makes you wonder where did our tech go wrong since now we have much bigger cannons indeed. I'd expect the miniaturization trend to continue
Holy crap imaging making a metal and wood model ship and firing at it with this and filling little compartments under the model guns with low grade explosives to simulate shell detonation
It is marked on the bottom 7-1-1919 G.M.S so I can only assume they are the maker. Miniature cannons like this are very interesting to me, but very rare as you probably already know. I have seen one german field gun before (infact one of the nicest models I have seen), but it was not an fk96. Sliding breeches or otherwise seem even rarer amongst these scale guns, and I haven't seen many. I did see a very nice french 75 once, but had no context other than the pictures I saved.
@@jamescallahan7000 I got lucky doing searches on gunbroker for other items at the time. Just googling various terms, you can find plans for a couple models around the internet from old publications - some basic .25 caliber breechloader, and a very fancy hotchkiss .22, both based on naval guns (as most of these seem to be). There is a very nice looking model on youtube somewhere that isnt shown firing just being manipulated for a few seconds that looks quite nice.
I was confused at first - I didn't recall a 22 naval gun. Then when I saw the video, I understood - excellent work. The obvious next question is when are you going to do an a triple 16 inch gun Turret from the Iowa class? I'd suggest in something like .50 BMG.
uhh, who said that to you? in any universe a brazillian would say that, being a brazillian myself... unless he's talking about the brazillian 19th century imperial navy
@@trainknut The brazillian imperial navy was one of the strongest in the world tho, well, they've got hundreds of KM of coast to protect, and many important cities where in the coast like Rio de Janeiro, the empire's capital
