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06 May 2010 10:46 PM

 

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06 May 2010 10:59 PM

What happened with your cannons?

Have you two tried covering your barrels with something easier to paint?  I just use vinyl tubing to protect them from incoming rounds.  It still doesn't hold paint very well but at least it prevents damage.

 

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06 May 2010 11:33 PM
I'm torn on the tubing thing. I don't want barrels dinged up, but I dont like the idea of making such a fat barrel that the tubing creates. It makes an already out of scale looking barrel look ridiculous. I know its a game and not a scale modeling competition, but its personal preference here.
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06 May 2010 11:49 PM

I felt that way too.  Right up until my stainless steel barrel jambed from a bb strike. 

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07 May 2010 12:14 AM
There has to be a way to put a sacrificial shell around the barrel that doesnt add another 1/4" to the diameter of the barrel. Atleast, I'd like to think that.
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07 May 2010 12:49 AM
In all the years that I have done this hobby I have never had my barrels dinged. I had my ammo coil dinged once but that was because I didnt have armor. I have never had anything on my barrels.
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07 May 2010 12:53 AM
Suffren had clean, no ding barrels last year. They remained ding free through that year, this year theyve collected a few visible nicks and atleast one ding, though not bad enough to impede the exiting rounds.
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07 May 2010 11:32 PM
hmm. Thats interesting. I have never had that problem... knock on wood.
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08 May 2010 09:57 AM
I suspect luck is a factor but also how you battle and how tall your ship is are equally important.
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09 May 2010 02:32 AM

The brass tube isn't that expensive. Just build a bunch of spares and trade out when they get dinged.

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10 May 2010 12:15 AM
I agree that brass isn't all that expensive (unlike stainless steel) but fear of losing a gun is my motivation to cosmetically blemish my boat with vinyl barrel condoms. I sure wish there was a better way.
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10 May 2010 01:35 AM
I like the idea of just bring spare barrels. I like the ships looking as real as they can be and the real things didnt have barrels condoms
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10 May 2010 02:16 AM
No, but they did have tapered barrels.
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11 May 2010 09:03 PM
This is true
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