Hi everyone
bit of a long shot but worth a go, does anyone have a pictures of any manufacturers version of the 5 inch BL fitted to Victorian Royal Navy vessels in 1889? These were the last of the standard guns before the quick fire 4.7 in came into service often being replaced by the newer QF guns. I can find information but very few pictures especially drawings. Any help would be gratefully received. I need to make 8 of them one day and I thought starting early would save some time later.
As reference these were fitted to the model I intend, one day, to build in 1/48 of the steel gun sloop HMS Basilisk, one of two Beagle class sloops built in 1889. A lovely looking vessel in my opinion of one of the last colonial gun boats operated by the Royal Navy before the Fisher cut of 1904.