Author Topic: 18th Century Gunners with real mini cannon  (Read 1793 times)

Offline HDTM

  • Playmo Fanatic
  • **
  • Posts: 128
    • Little Carpet Wars
18th Century Gunners with real mini cannon
« on: August 26, 2019, 10:20:06 »
as promised here is the first test with the finished mini cannon https://youtu.be/bVtksl2VwXk



Ignition mechanism https://youtu.be/Pc1LMrAJ59w


Offline Macruran

  • desperate but not serious
  • Moderator
  • Playmo Master
  • *****
  • Posts: 3780
  • Gender: Male
  • Hiya!
    • my incomplete collection spreadsheet
Re: 18th Century Gunners with real mini cannon
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2019, 18:21:27 »
 :clap: :captain:
"We like things in little." - G. Stein  
 :roman:

Offline Hadoque

  • Capitaine de la "Licorne"
  • Playmo Master
  • *****
  • Posts: 4153
  • Gender: Male
Re: 18th Century Gunners with real mini cannon
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2019, 05:00:37 »
Do you fire your cannons with powder only or are there cannonballs flying towards your enemy´s klickies, ships and fortifications?  ;D

Resistance is futile, you will be boarded!

Offline HDTM

  • Playmo Fanatic
  • **
  • Posts: 128
    • Little Carpet Wars
Re: 18th Century Gunners with real mini cannon
« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2019, 07:38:24 »
Hi Hadoque! for the moment the cannons are loaded only with small firecrackers ... but the idea is just to shoot cannonballs. Except I'm a little scared of using klickies as targets. I was in fact thinking about building a small wooden fort ... I just don't know where to start ???
Another idea is to load the cannon with 2 firecrackers. One behind and one as a bullet.
This way I can fire a firecracker that will explode against fortifications or klickies without forever crippling them

Offline tahra

  • Playmo Guru
  • ******
  • Posts: 14878
  • Gender: Female
    • playkingdoms
Re: 18th Century Gunners with real mini cannon
« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2019, 07:51:56 »
Except I'm a little scared of using klickies as targets.

You CANNOT.

 :'(

Offline GrahamB

  • Moderator
  • Playmo Master
  • *****
  • Posts: 3445
  • Gender: Male
    • Playmofanatic
Re: 18th Century Gunners with real mini cannon
« Reply #5 on: September 03, 2019, 08:06:10 »
You CANNOT.

 :'(

Unless they have THAT hair!  :lol:
At that moment the ship suddenly stopped rocking and swaying, the engine pitch settled down to a gentle hum. 'Hey Ford.' said Zaphod, 'that sounds good. Have you worked out the controls on this boat?' 'No,' said Ford, 'I just stopped fiddling with them.' (With thanks to Douglas Adams)

Offline tahra

  • Playmo Guru
  • ******
  • Posts: 14878
  • Gender: Female
    • playkingdoms
Re: 18th Century Gunners with real mini cannon
« Reply #6 on: September 03, 2019, 08:39:10 »
Unless they have THAT hair!  :lol:

No, even with THAT hair!

Offline Hadoque

  • Capitaine de la "Licorne"
  • Playmo Master
  • *****
  • Posts: 4153
  • Gender: Male
Re: 18th Century Gunners with real mini cannon
« Reply #7 on: September 05, 2019, 11:03:20 »
As a kid, I and a friend sometimes used to shoot with ... Lego at our klickies.  :-[  8}
We had built a kind of crossbow with Lego. We used rails from the Lego Train theme, 2 put next to each other, and then several more after one another. On the rails you could put other Lego pieces upside down and with a strong, large elastic band you could shoot them away with rather high velocity. One shot easily whiped out a Playmobil gun-position and it´s artillery-crew. No klicky ever died, but some sustained "serious injuries". Actually it was a rather dangergous thing if I think about it now, good we never fired it at each other or at another person, or at my grandma´s porcelain cabinet. The US Navy and the Chinese Navy (PLAN) are now developing magnetic "railguns" to shoot at one another, though I´m not sure if they too use Lego for it.

Resistance is futile, you will be boarded!

Offline NICO

  • Playmo Fanatic
  • **
  • Posts: 111
  • Greetings from Geobratia
Re: 18th Century Gunners with real mini cannon
« Reply #8 on: November 06, 2019, 15:31:22 »
Superb!!

KA-BOOM!!!

Offline playmofire

  • Klicky Firemeister
  • Playmo Guru
  • ******
  • Posts: 10924
  • Gender: Male
    • Copt Hewick Volunteer Fire Brigade - probably the world's smallest fire brigade!
Re: 18th Century Gunners with real mini cannon
« Reply #9 on: November 06, 2019, 15:57:25 »
An impressive demonstration.
“Today well-lived makes every yesterday a day of happiness to remember and every tomorrow a vision of hope.”