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Bravo
05-31-2006, 12:11 AM
I've looked and looked but can't seem to find a blueprint for the gun I need.

I need a German WWII 105mm Howitzer, not the wheeled or tracked type, but one used in a bunker (in particular used in the Merville bunker). The guns there were (as far as I can gather) based upon a cog type rotating mechanism.

If anyone here knows the location of such a blueprint I would be very grateful
LegalAssassin
05-31-2006, 3:10 PM
Let me know if you find it, I've been looking for one myself for a long time
Bravo
06-01-2006, 9:14 PM
It would appear no such blueprint exists.

Does anyone know the location of a photograph of such a gun? Even if only one side, so I can make the rest up?
Zorin
06-02-2006, 1:10 PM
Plan:
http://wilk.wpk.p.lodz.pl/~whatfor/aa5/lefh18_schem.jpg

Walkaround:
http://images.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://walkarounds.airforce.ru/artillery/germany/lefh18/LeFH18_14.jpg&imgrefurl=http://walkarounds.airforce.ru/artillery/germany/lefh18/&h=675&w=900&sz=64&tbnid=jcEeBl2jDR_AeM:&tbnh=108&tbnw=145&hl=de&start=5&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2BLeFH18%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Dde%26lr %3D%26newwindow%3D1%26rls%3DGGGL,GGGL:2005-09,GGGL:de%26sa%3DG

And you can ask in a modelling forum for some scans of a modell plan, could prove to be helpful. The pro modellers there also use to have extended reference materials, which are always useful.
Spinner
06-02-2006, 2:14 PM
Maybe you'll have to combine them. Get the howitzer like Zorin's and search for the correct naval mount. Naval mounts were normaly used in fixed shore implacements.
LegalAssassin
06-02-2006, 5:18 PM
I don't think that's the one used at the Merville battery. The ones used there were the czech "Skoda 10cm houfnice vz 14/19", known to the Germans as "10cm leFH 14/19 (t)".
It's damn near impossible to find blueprints for, or any other reference for that matter. At least it was when I looked for it, and gave up.
Bravo
06-02-2006, 7:10 PM
I don't think that's the one used at the Merville battery. The ones used there were the czech "Skoda 10cm houfnice vz 14/19", known to the Germans as "10cm leFH 14/19 (t)".
It's damn near impossible to find blueprints for, or any other reference for that matter. At least it was when I looked for it, and gave up.

Ah, that is interesting, thank you legal assassin, I was confused as the BBC website named the guns as 105mm Howitzers, where any photo's I found in regard to Merville did look to me to be leFH 18's.

In my search for the actual guns I just accepted the first answer I found, I should have done more indepth research...

I work in the construction industry and we have a saying 'measure twice, cut once', should have applied it here :rolleyes:
LegalAssassin
06-02-2006, 11:36 PM
Hehe
Actually, I've also heard that the guns should be something else (even in print, I believe), but my own research with help from some others told me that they were the Czech ones. I could be wrong, but it's unlikely.
Let me know if you find any good references (blueprints especially), I was supposed to build a Merville bunker in scale 1:35 but quit as I couldn't find good enough material.