British Railway Gun Series 9.2 Inch Gun Mk1 (1916) by RGL - DModels - 1/35 - RESIN

[RGL]

I got this off a Facebook Buy/Swap/Sell for about half of retail. It a very big 3d print. Missing was a traversing arm and bracket and some deck fittings which the owner of the rights to the kit was good enough to send the Stl’s which I got printed locally. It fits perfectly on an old base for a tribal class destroyer and I got a set of railway tracks to sit it on. 

[RGL]

Easy enough to throw togeather. Bit of sanding at the join of the deck and re riveting which I still need to work on as I’m not quite happy but I’ve obtained some resin paste which is UV light sealed 

[RGL]

All together, the railing are a complete one piece print which are a paint and would have been better off as individual stanchions 

[RGL]

The track! 

[RGL]

Railway track base coat down, weathering then add it to the base. Once I’m happy with that back to fixing some errors on the build 

[RGL]

Weathering the railroad track with pigments, then some splatters of oil. I’m happy with how this looks so far. Tomorrow I’ll add it to the base then put ballast around it 

[realworkingsailor]

There is a passage in a book by Ian V. Hogg, Barrage: The Guns In Action, (Ballantyne Books, 1970), where he relates an interesting anecdote from the summer of 1940 (summarized):

 

An acquaintance, who in the previous war, had been trained on railway guns, had been dispatched to the coast of England to reconnoiter feasible sites to deploy any of the few remaining railway guns the British army had. Examining a map, he discovered a little valley, adjacent to a main railway line. He set out with a companion to further study the ground. They were surprised when they almost tripped over some rusty old railway spur that led through their chosen valley. Following the disused line, they found it terminated in two old weatherbeaten sheds. Looking between the cracks in the boards, they could just make out some form of machinery. Having decided that this was a prime location to deploy a railway gun, they decided to investigate the machinery in the sheds further. After breaking the lock they found themselves staring at a still gleaming 9.2” railway gun, another was found in the second shed. Alerted to their presence by a suspicious shepherd, the police showed up, along with an elderly pensioner, who happened to be the caretaker of the two railway guns. He had been tending them since they where parked there in 1918, and they were fully serviceable. He had been paid, via the local post office to keep them cleaned and greased and “Bless me, sir, d’you tell me as you didn’t know they was there?”

 

Andy

 

 

[RGL]

Great story and what a find! Bet they were scrapped for metal 

[RGL]

That’s the base done 

[realworkingsailor]

15 minutes ago, RGL said:

Great story and what a find! Bet they were scrapped for metal 

Probably not until after the war. Apparently the Mk XIII version of the 9.2” gun was kept in service for home defence, in the south and east of Britain, until 1945.

 

Andy

[RGL]

This one’s base would be terrible as a gun platform thus the Mk1

[RGL]

Base coat down.