The Basilic & The Siege of Constantinople

[Mart17]

Hi, so I finally finished my latest project the Basilic, which was a medieval super heavy bombard used during siege of Constantinople in 1453



You can watch the video to see the making it from scratch








Hope you like it, I'm already thinking about starting another project

[Emperor]

Very nice tutorial

[Konrad]

Great!

[Bessiere]

Magnificent! With a whole day's worth of cannon balls on hand too. I read it could only fire 3 times in a day due to slow heat dissipation of the barrel.

[Santi Pérez]

Fantastic work, Mart17. I don’t know what I like best, whether the diorama itself or the video of its making.

My best congratulations.

Santi.

[tullo]

[Mart17]

Thank you

[Mart17]

Magnificent! With a whole day's worth of cannon balls on hand too. I read it could only fire 3 times in a day due to slow heat dissipation of the barrel.

Yes, they had to use olive oil to cool it down

[Bessiere]

Yes, they had to use olive oil to cool it down

Thousands of gallons of it, just for one cannon to fire a couple of shots. Talk about extravagant defense spending. Plus the cannonmaker was paid 4x his asking price to make the guns. The Ottomans had some deep pockets!

[Peter]

Magnificent! With a whole day's worth of cannon balls on hand too. I read it could only fire 3 times in a day due to slow heat dissipation of the barrel.

Yes, they had to use olive oil to cool it down

And with the hot oil they made diner or souper?

Fantastic little dio!

[Mart17]

And with the hot oil they made diner or souper?

Maybe omelette

[raph86]

Hello, just fabulous and with a video of the construction it's perfect.

[CliosPaintingBench]

Very realistic diorama and great step-by-step video process!