8 inch Parrott Rifle on a seacoast Barbette carriage 1/32 scale resin model kit
made in USA by Old Steam Navy
# OSN-7
$59.95
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#OSN-7 New - carriages are now
made of spun cast pewter!
One of the most famous guns of the war was an 8-Inch Parrott Rifle which was
nicknamed the "Swamp Angel". The Swamp Angel made history when on
August 22, 1863 when it fired Parrott shells into the city of Charleston. Using
a compass siting of St. Michaels Episcopal church in downtown Charleston, the
8-inch Parrott became the first gun to use the technique of indirect fire. The
battery which protected the Swamp Angel was one of the top engineering feats of
the war. It was built on a marsh upon logs laid crossways, thereby literally
floating on "pluff mud" employing counterbalance. The carriage used in
this model kit is the exact copy of the actual carriage used by the Swamp Angel.
Like the Rodman gun, stereolithography was used to construct it and the
instructions contain the 4 pages of blueprints of the carriage as found in the
national archives! You will never find a model kit more historically accurate
than these. It was guns like these that were used to pound Battery Wagner, Ft.
Sumter and the city of Charleston. Charleston never surrendered.
Kit includes the 8 inch Parrott tube, the seacoast barbette carriage, 3 Parrott
shells, 3 Parrott bolts, there are over 40 parts included. This gun contains
many small parts and is not suitable for children. Battery Stevens (shown in
photo) is sold separately and other objects seen in the photograph are not
included in the kit.
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