Who would buy turned barrels for DNs Fuso

Steve Nuttall

New Member
Hi guys

Well I guess I might as well stop in here once or twice and see what I can do for the card modelers
I never really thought about coming here as i've seen barrels made for the card models before; now don't take this the wrong way but I did not think that the barrels I saw were too good; and compared to mine the price is very cheap; however that said; I've seen some very good card models; and they would be enhanced for sure with my barrels
Let me give you a brief on just how I make them
First off; the barrel is modeled in CAD; and full size; if there is a flare or some other muzzle treatment it will be faithfull duplicated; if there are the mounting rings as on the Fuso/Kirishima barrel (or Yamato etc) they will be there
Then I shrink the CAD to the req scale; this is to 8 decimal places in metric
I then write the gcode for the barrels based on those sizes; again to 8 decimal places
This will give the most accurate barrel avil; my CNC machines are set up to read these programs; and produce very accurate products; the brass is full hard yellow; it gives a very nice finish that will take paint well and not chip off like Aluminum
I drill each barrel to scale; and go at least 4-5 calibers deep; so the hole looks right
Look to my site for more details on just what I have already programmed; and please remember I'm always open to suggestions or ideas
If I have a barrel in my avail list; this means I have the barrel drawn in CAD; re-scaling is easy and I don't charge for programming or CAD drawing if there is a order for a set
All orders would have to be pre paid as I don't make them from just a request
I take Paypal (just use my email address)
I also take International Money orders
email me for the address; or look on my ordering page (just click the buttons in the main page)

If you have problems with bounced email; please use my alt at snuttall@modelbarrels.com
 

Steve Nuttall

New Member
Just to give an idea of the barrels
Here are my 10.5cm Bismarck/Tirpitz AA barrels on the 1/350th Tamiya Kit plastic

105mmBismarck.jpg


And again my 15cm in the turret
150mmBismarck-2.jpg


These could easily be re-programmed to any scale
 

shoki2000

Active Member
Those barrels really look good, but the price....
GOMIX and GPM some time ago switched from the wooden barrels to brass and they will hold their own on a fraction of the cost, even including shipping from Poland...
 

Steve Nuttall

New Member
I don't make excuses for the price; i just charge the machine time; I never charge for drawing or even researching the barrels
My machines are not bar feeders that you just turn off at the end of the day and pickup all the finished parts
I basically hand make my sets; the cnc is just to provide repeatablity and accuracy; I hand drill every hole; and polish too
If you want just one set of special barrels for that must have model; see if the Polish guys will make you one set; i doubt it
 
Steve I have long admired your barrels at ModelWarships and I would think most Card Model Ships would benefit from a good set od barrels and masts. And if some the price a little steep, maybe the can buy their own equipment and do it cheaper. :roll: :roll: :roll:
 

garyj36

New Member
Yeah , steves literally doing this stuff by hand at home and has job , family etc. Me , Im going for it. I come frome a world where a 1/350th resin fuso for $400 would have everyone running around talking about what a great deal they got. So I figure my $35 cd with all the accuracy leaves me a lot of room for fancy extras.
 

Steve Nuttall

New Member
Thanks Mark and Gary

Here are 2 versions of my Bofor; the bigger one is 1/48th scale; the other 1/96th
BOFOR48TH.jpg

Note how both come with real springs
Pricing on these masterpeices; $4 for the smaller one $6 for the big
Now if i was building a model in plastic/scratch/or card and was spending months of myspare time on it; a few bucks to make it look just like museum model would be worthwhile
 

Steve Nuttall

New Member
Sticky Fingers said:
And if some the price a little steep, maybe the can buy their own equipment and do it cheaper. :roll: :roll: :roll:

hehehe; just to go along with that thought; here is the control section of the cnc
4thaxis.jpg

Now this lot needs to be hooked up to a computer; and the drives then need stepper motors to move the axis
you can bet this lot was not cheap :roll:
 

mapuc

New Member
Well even though, there are some great gunbarrel, Steve make on his CNC, I just can figure out, where on my coming projekt I shall
place thise gunbarrels.
It's the Queen Mary II if you should wonder.

Markus
 
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