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They also had shrapnel charges as well, invented by a Lt. Shrapnel of his majesty's own in the 1780's....

Round ball fused shot, commonly known as "Bombs" as in "Bombs bursting in air" from the National anthem were around since the 1300's, in the late 1700's the british refined them by adding a sabot, a round piece of wood so the fuse would always face the muzzle when loaded.... lighting the fuse was enacted by the flash blowby in the barrel from the propelling charge.... they were an effective anti personnel weapon but the fusing was completely unreliable only actually working about 40% of the time..... Just before the civil war they went to pointed "Bombs" which were a bit more reliable but still less than 60% effective.... During and shortly after the civil war they went to percussion fuses and detonators which made them 80% effective..... Grenades date back as far as the 1200's.....

Resin aftermarket is my guess....

Yes in fact heated shot was long used by French and British forces, (mostly naval forces) from the early 1700's.... so it's entirely possible that both sides used it..... Below a hot Shot furnace built just before 1800 at Fort-la-latte in France.... In 1792, the Austrian forces besieging Lille used heated shot against the city, which was described as a war crime by the French Republican press. The last known use of Hot Shot was by the ironclad CSS Virginia against the USS Congress during the Civil War successfully setting her afire.... So yeah it's entirely possible.....

Got a pic brother, it is of Kenmore House which was used as a union hospital several times during the civil war, Several of the Battles it was involved in were Fredrickson, The Wilderness , Spotsylvania court house to name a few... It was hit with 11 cannonballs during the war, and this one photo shows the damage resulting from the cannonball penetrating a wood framed roof.... 3x4 timber rafter framing with a 1" board sheathing with a slate roof over that at the time of the war..... You can see how the wood splinters to the inside of the hole and would leave fractured tiles on the outside.... A relatively small hole.....

Well the timbering and lengthwise beams would be the same, but they would nail or peg the slate tiles to the roof, I would surmise that the damage would be represented by a hole surrounded by missing and broken slate tiles, the slate being a dark bluish grey wouldn't show a lot of smoke damage.... I would tile the roof using plates of a suitable material and paint a black spot on the MDF underneath to represent the hole. you probably wouldn't see the timbering cause the timbers would fracture out from underneath the plates leaving nothing but the jagged slate edges..... I'll do some research.....

That era and period it would be a thatched roof, and the day being cloudy and rainy it would have been damp so difficult to really get a fire started, a good dousing would eliminate that threat rather quickly..... Underneath would be timbers making up the sloped form of the roof with cross wise lattices running lengthwise to tie the thatch bundles to..... A good solution would be to cover the roof with thatch and scorch a part of it along one edge feathering the scorch out in a fan pattern, you wouldn't need a hole per-se just a semi circular scorch pattern..... There isn't a lot of information on it, except that the KGL managed to put it out before it did major damage....

Very nice brother, excellent work on the framework... Although the top turret was a solid, built up plexiglass part and would show no framework at all..... (except where the insulators were mounted around the gun barrels) Decided on what decals your going to get yet?

Tank Urban Survival Kits (TUSK) has had two phases Tusk I was the square reactive explosive armor, Tusk II added a few enhancements like the tile shaped charges on top of the square block charges and grid armor to the rear of the tank to improve it's RPG protection... They added a .50 cal to the main gun barrel to add infantry level offensive protection to the infrared targeting system, gun shields to the commander position and several electronics upgrades to make it more survivable in a city environment against irregular troops.... They were first used in Iraq during the first occupation, and upgraded when the insurgents learned how to destroy an abrams with rather crude devices..... (well not so much as destroy it, but render it useless for combat) In places where the threat is more conventional, (normal armor operations against field forces like in Europe) TUSK is not deployed cause it hampers the tanks cross country mobility..... The upgrade kit is TUSK II and you wouldn't see it anywhere except in a city environment....

I agree we are well overdue for several classes of US Cruisers in injection molded plastic.... the Brooklyns head that list....

The Brooklyn class ships were a direct response to the "Mogami" class cruisers of the IJN... (which stunned the world's navies when they were revealed)..... A class of 35+knot ships with 15 rapid fire 6" guns and 8 5" guns... (when the Japanese abrogated the treaty their 6" guns were removed and replaced with 10 8" guns in five turrets in which configuration they served through the war) All designed after the London treaty which limited Heavy cruisers construction and classified cruisers by their gun calibre 6.1 and larger were "Heavy" and 6" or less were considered "Light"...... That was the inspiration for the Brooklyn class...... Very long legged, fast, cruisers that could be used for either commerce raiding or carrier escort as originally envisioned and that could hold their own in a gun battle against any heavy cruisers then in existence..... (given the limitations of the treaty) Of the nine ships built only one was lost during the war, the USS Helena CL-50 to long lance torpedoes..... The last two, the USS St Louis CL-49 and the USS Helena CL-50, were modified Brooklyn's having their antiaircraft armament changed from six 5"25's to 8 5"38's (in twin turrets) The Japanese after the Battles of Savo island and the guadalcanal naval campaign had a nickname for them calling them "Machine gun cruisers" they particularly didn't like them.... Their hulls were based upon the preceding 10K ton New Orleans class heavy cruiser hulls redesigned (longer) to make them faster the only reason they weren't classified as heavy cruisers was the treaty, and as the Japanese action of upgunning their Mogami class to 8" guns showed they were very capable of handling such armament.... Their hulls were the basis of every US cruiser designed from that point forward including the Baltimore class of heavy cruisers and several of the light aircraft carriers (from cleveland class, modified brooklyn hulls) Probably the most capable gun cruisers ever built up to that point in time..... I'm condensing and paraphrasing a lot of Norman Friedman's US Cruisers an illustrated design history (amazon link) here... well worth the read.....

Here's the playlist if your looking for what's available....

Well while yuse guys are giving the synapses a workout, you may want to check out Little Wars TV Here's an example of what they produce.... It is aimed at the wargamer of course.... but their model recreations are excellent....

You got the talent brother.... no question..... I think it's going to look spectacular.....

I agree Lou, after the Hipper Class Cruisers, the St Louis Class and Brooklyn classes are my favorites, followed by the Cleveland class Brooklyn derivatives.... Beautiful ships all.....

That's a gorgeous kit....

Scale accuracy has to give somewhere brother, and yes they would looks junky/clunky in 1/350.... But then they mk1 eyeball doesn't have the ability to sort resolutions that small.... They look best from about 8-10" away... Where 1/350th it's about 24"...... You do know that with this experience you can build anything? Also, that folding 1/350 isn't the same..... Beautiful work my friend, work that I cannot do.....

Me 2....

That's exactly what it looks like brother, or the scriber point for a height gage...

Ney at Waterloo cost Nappy the battle...... LHS was the key to the British position, the longer it held the longer they had to prepare for the centre assault they knew was coming.... When Ney finally took it the British were prepared for the final act with cannon overlooking everything with the French channeled into their fields of fire.... He did not understand fully the importance of the position and why Nappy wanted it taken early....

I know one thing for sure, it isn't really mine until it has received a little blood...., and trust me, everyone I've built, is mine.... (they all have a little piece of me in them) {chuckle}

Got you and yours in my prayers brother, hope it turns out well.... (if god has anything to say about it, (and I know he does) it will turn out well) Keep the faith my friend...

Yeah B-17's and B-24's were more common especially after the start of '44... They had several flying examples of just about every aircraft we flew in combat both british and american including a Corsair and a B-26.... There are reports of P-47's and P-51's actually used by the Luftwaffe in combat towards the end of the war..... But no records at all of a captured B-25.... (or Lancasters for that matter) The germans had a squadron known as Zirkus Rosarius, that was devoted to flying captured enemy combat aircraft to the various units involved in air combat for pilot familiarization and to expose their deficiencies..... Quote comes from here.....

https://www.forcecom.uscg.mil/Our-Organization/FORCECOM-UNITS/TraCen-Yorktown/Training/National-Motor-Lifeboat-School/ That's where you go to get your training and qualifications to be on a MLB before you are assigned to an individual station. Every station where the need for MLB's exists has a training schedule brother, that's why they are there.... And the best place to train is in the environment your going to work in.... Of course they train there they have skills that need to remain sharp....

Cape Disappointment is where the Coast Guards Lifeboat training facility is....... That is the Columbia River Bar on an average day...... The boat on display at the museum? it has done over 30 complete athwartship rolls and 4-5 end to end rolls, that is the surf they train in.... They make TV shows about it for Danger TV...