Black Powder Canon

jjyoder · August 22, 2009, 8:44am

I’ve been working on this canon for the last couple of days when time allows. I still have quite a bit to do especially with the textures (which I don’t have a lot of experience with). This is a canon that is made to look like an old one but it made from cast metal. It is completely workable.

C&C welcome.

Thanks,
Jerry

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annoyer707 · August 22, 2009, 9:38am

the cannon itself is too small compared to wheels

elek · August 22, 2009, 4:56pm

Yeah, I was thinking the same, you don’t need wheels that big to move such a small cannon. Maybe you should try to aim for something like this:

Besides that, looks nice so far.

dvandamme · August 24, 2009, 2:43am

it could be that the canon crew broke their wheels dragging the gun over rocks and had to ‘borrow’ the wheels from a passing pot trader…

meemio · August 24, 2009, 3:34am

lol ^^

Really awesome cannon, but i agree with elek.

jjyoder · August 24, 2009, 7:26pm

Thanks for the c&c! I made some changes to the proportions of the cannon and wheels. I sill have a little more modeling to do as well as textures.

Thanks,
Jerry

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canon_4.blend (736 KB)

jjyoder · August 24, 2009, 7:30pm

Sorry, I put the blend file up instead of the png file.

Jerry

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bobg · August 25, 2009, 8:40am

Actually, the size of the cannon was secondary in deciding the wheel size. The carriage was pulled by a horse and needed to be able to roll over any terrain that could be navigated by a horse, sometimes at a full gallop… The larger the wheel diameter, the smoother the ride. Of course very large cannons required much heavier rigs.

RickyBlender · August 25, 2009, 9:43am

here is a site showing that the cannon isteself has some ectruded parts

the pics are details

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.newworldtreasures.com/images/Cannon%20Front.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.newworldtreasures.com/atocha-cannon.htm&usg=__VqSgZO-mqxtZTN9Bu8SZ0pWrGcE=&h=800&w=1185&sz=325&hl=en&start=77&um=1&tbnid=In7hJu8VPq0T4M:&tbnh=101&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcannon%26imgsz%3Dl%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GGIE_enCA258CA276%26sa%3DN%26start%3D60%26um%3D1

you did not include theses extrusion part of the cannon

but it’s beginning to look good

keep up the good work

and happy blendering

jjyoder · August 31, 2009, 5:46pm

bobg: You are right. Actually, I took photos of the cannon for my resource material. The cannon is smaller on this one but think the cannon looks better made a little larger.

RickyBlender: That seems to be a different cannon then what I am modeling. All thought it is an interesting one.

I’ve made some changes to the proportions and added some things. I still have a little more to model and then on to textures.

Thanks,
Jerry

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dvandamme · September 1, 2009, 3:26am

is that ment to be gold? most of the canons ive seen are always black cast iron/steel… the coolest canon ive seen is housed in the artillery museum Segovia, Spain. it looks like a kettle drum with no skin, 25cm internal bore, 50 cm long barrel… cant remember what that shot - it was a defensive seige canon. meaning theres millions of designs around

jjyoder · September 7, 2009, 11:07am

Hi

I’ve made some updates to this cannon model. The barrel is a cast brass to my knowledge. I’ve added some textures to it. I’m still not happy with them and I want to add a few more items to the scene.

Thanks,
Jerry