Few people in the UK will know of the kits available under this name. John Harloe is the man behind the venture and you can purchase from his Company 'Cottage Industries', a wide range of American Civil War equipment and figures. The Old Steam Navy banner flies over some of the very best artillery pieces in 1/32nd scale that you can buy, the Confederate submarine Hunley in the same scale and now a series of 1/96th scale ironclads. Unfortunately the nature of our mag prevents us from talking more about these - but check out the website below for more info. Currently there are three artillery pieces in 1/32nd scale kit form and these are: a 10" Rodman Gun on a Seacoast Barbette Carriage, a wonderful 13" Union Seacoast Mortar on a firing platform and an 8" Parrot Rifle, also on a Barbette Carriage. Most of the artillery kits consist of 30+ parts: for example, the 10' Rodman Gun & Carriage kit consists of 37 parts. Most of these as with the other artillery kits, are devoted to the construction of the carriage. In addition, there are 12 artillery shells with this kit and a similar number of munitions are supplied with the other guns. These l/32nd scale kits are all resin-cast with a small number of metal parts usually made from metal rod or in the case of the Hunley a few white metal castings.
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