Gun Port Lid Hinges

[piratepete007]

Is there anybody out there who can give me some tips on making gun port lid hinges ? I have searched high and low on this website but cannot find much to help me. Those commercially available are pretty limited in their offering.

 

I guess I will have to work with brass shim but there have to be a few tricks in cutting along the edges ?

 

Pete

[AntonyUK]

Hi Pete.

Have a look at Chucks bits.

You did not mention the scale.

http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/10138-laser-cut-working-gunport-hinges-keel-plates-from-syren-ship-model-company/?hl=hinge

High quality and very good value.

 

Regards Antony.

Edited December 16, 2016 by AntonyUK

[piratepete007]

Hi Antony,

 

Silly me - 1:75. Thanks for that info and I will have a look at that.

 

Regards, Pete

Edited December 16, 2016 by piratepete007

[piratepete007]

Chuck from Syren is doing a great thing with the gun port lid straps and I will probably order some. But I am stubborn enough to want to produce my own straps, I guess from brass. So, in spite of Antony's response, has anybody got a method that they use ?

Pete

[amateur]

Do they have to be working, or just 'cosmetic'?

I did some hinges, using just using ordinary white paper, painted black.

(yes, closed ports.....)

 

Jan

[piratepete007]

Thanks Jan and Dirk - I will take both those suggestions on board !

 

Pete

[mtaylor]

Pete,

 

Snoop around in the Scratch section also.  Maybe a search for gunport and hinges while in that forum and another in the kit forum?  I've seen quite a few very well done hinges there as well as in the kit logs. 

Edited December 17, 2016 by mtaylor

[John R. McGann]

Pete: look up Grant Line Products. They cast a hinge set  for side dump gondolas part No. 5118 that are dead ringers for gun port hinges they even have bolt heads! JRMc

[piratepete007]

JRMc - thanks for that hint. Will have a look !

 

Pete