Model Ship Builder

Mantua has a total of 12+ models of various antique weapons (canons, catapults, war machines)
which is great fun to build and make great displays!

In the last 18 months I built 8. I am now building a roman catapult

At this point I managed to seriously mess up Constantinos topic! However I still had the original topic displayed on my PC so I was able to copy the contents. It's all here but my apologies for the non standard format.

Arthur.

Winston:

That is an interesting collection of armament models. What scale are they?

Winston Scoville

Ongoing Research:
HMS Sapphire (Saphire) (1675)
HMS General Hunter (aka General Hunter, Hunter) (1805)

Canadian Nautical Research Society - Facebook Page
The Society for Nautical Research
The Nautical Research Guild

aew

Very nice Constantinos. I'd not looked at those kits previously so I've just been browsing through them.
I like the Scorpion crossbow and am wondering if it will actually work! Is that on your 'To do' list? 
Do you have any pictures of the construction of you models?
Post some pictures of your catapult when you've finished it.

Arthur

Current Build:

• HMS Vanguard - Build Log

Previous builds:

• Astrolabe - Build Log 
• Greek Bireme - Build Log - Web site
• Gulnara - Build Log

Dave1254

Very nice job Constantinos. I too have collected the kits and enjoy the detail of them and that some of them, ie: catapults etc actually work. 
Dave

Constantinos E

thanks for the compliments guys!
I appreciate it! Most of the models are at a 1:17 scale Winston except for the combat chariot which is at 1:12.

No Arthur, unfortunately the Scorpion bow does not work. it was not easy to make it work. No, unfortunately I don't gave pics of building the various models. I will try and do that with my current build. 

and yes, of course I will post pictures of the catapult once finished.

Norb

Very cool, a little something out of the ordinary can be refreshing

"Patience is DEFINATELY a virtue!!!"

Donfarr

How does the Maniuta guns compare to MS guns of history as far as quality etc. Thanks Don

Don Farr

Constantinos E

hi Don.

Well, I wouldn't know how the 2 brands compare since I haven't built any of the models from MS. Maybe other members who have experience with both could enlighten us.

Price wise, in any case, from what I've seen, MS is more expensive.

aew

Constantinos: I didn't realise you'd also built the Scorpion Crossbow. I see now you'd posted some pictures of it in a second topic.

(These pictures now follow in this post.)

Arthur

Current Build:

• HMS Vanguard - Build Log

Previous builds:

• Astrolabe - Build Log 
• Greek Bireme - Build Log - Web site

Gulnara - Build Log

Constantinos E

yes, Arthur, I also built the Scorpion crossbow. It a was a bit tricky to build and made a couple of mistakes (I fortunately managed to conceal them) in the process but the finished models looks great.

Continuation of my Mantua antique weapons collection: