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[philgg1946]

Need a naval gun for my R.A.F Gunboat scale 1/32 , Cheers Phil

[raflaunches]

I think you would need an Oerlikon 20mm cannon for an RAF Whaleback ASRL- they weren’t strong enough to mount a Bofors. You can get one from Battlecrafts

[mogurnda]

Phil....
Battlecrafts have what you are looking for.
David

[philk]

But not the one pictured that's a bofors for a perkasa

[mogurnda]

Phil

Sorry about picture.... This was the only 1/32 scale Bofors gun listed the MKVII.....

David.

[philk]

No problem but biggest gun on the whaleback was the oerlikon

[JimG]

There was a gun boat version built of the whaleback, not operated by the RAF  but the Navy. Deans used to make an anti submarine version, this carried a Rolls Royce 20mm cannon (normally used on aircraft). I can remember seeing a drawing of another version in Model Boats which I think carried a 40mm Bofors on the rear deck, the superstructure was shortened to allow this.
Jim

[Jonty]

The Rolls-Royce gun used on Fairmile Cs and the like was a 40mm weapon. The aircraft version was automatic, but the naval gun was simplified to be a single-shot weapon.