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Originally Posted by the_frog
The one you show is the on-deck naval mount (later also used in certain batteries).
No, I mean that one:
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Sure, I got you know: the "casemate" type gun shields, used on many pre-Dreadnought battleships. These were probably retained when the old battleships were scrapped and their guns converted as coastal artillery, I should have thought of it before
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Originally Posted by the_frog
That type of shield was most common in coastal positions. It theone that was later "upgraded" to the Devil's Gap version. The original shiled is still there:
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If not identical, this looks very similar to the gun shields used on Ness artillery pieces:
Another good example:
The caption to the image above, on
Imperial War Museum's website, reads:
Gunners run to take post at a 9.2-inch coastal defence gun at the Needles Battery on the Isle of Wight, 7 August 1941
This must be the army version of the BL 9.2"/47 Mark X naval gun, which I also paln modelling:
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNBR_92-47_mk10.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BL_9.2...k_IX%E2%80%93X
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Originally Posted by the_frog
Probably the best way to re-create the shield is to build first the original casemate-type shield and then attach the add-on shield, just as done in reality.
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I agree