This is my first attempt at making an artillery-carriage wheel, scaled down from the "cannon" in the 1957 Stanley Kramer production "The Pride And The Passion". Construction is pine for the 5 felly's and the hub, and poplar for the 10 spokes. Since I couldn't find long 1/4- or 3/4-inch steel-strips for "tyres" (and couldn't weld them either), I made English-system artillery-wheel strakes from locally available 22ga, 18-inch x 3/4" construction straps.
That's Cary Grant in the B&W in the background, inspecting the "repaired" cannon, and my 1/2"-bore, 9" bronze naval saluting cannon on the left, and spare spokes in the dish; the 8-inch square shows the wheel size.
Of course, this wheel's for practice; the next two will be for a model of the movie cannon, at a scale of 1-inch = 1 foot:
The movie gun had a 18-foot barrel of fiber-glass, with about a 1-1/2-foot diameter steel-tube liner for the effects charges. I'm debating whether to put a 1-1/4-inch iron pipe tube inside the projected pine barrel, or stick to the non-effects 1-1/2-inch PVC tube.:evil:
Regards,
That's Cary Grant in the B&W in the background, inspecting the "repaired" cannon, and my 1/2"-bore, 9" bronze naval saluting cannon on the left, and spare spokes in the dish; the 8-inch square shows the wheel size.
Of course, this wheel's for practice; the next two will be for a model of the movie cannon, at a scale of 1-inch = 1 foot:
The movie gun had a 18-foot barrel of fiber-glass, with about a 1-1/2-foot diameter steel-tube liner for the effects charges. I'm debating whether to put a 1-1/4-inch iron pipe tube inside the projected pine barrel, or stick to the non-effects 1-1/2-inch PVC tube.:evil:
Regards,
