More plumberiness

Wide ducts

I continued assembling the busier end of the cannon. Below the barrel itself a three-cylinder recoil handling system. Next to it, in the photo below, was one of the core pieces of the gun's cradle.

With one of the tubes this looked like a small-scale Karl-Gerät's gun. The cannon barrel itself was still waiting to be installed, for at this point it would have been on the way more than anything else.

I had to admit that I lost a shameful amount of time searching for the teethed piece that was responsible for the gun's elevation. The stepping plate seemed a bit flimsy at this point, but I thought I could strenghten it later, if needed.

These four rods I didn't clean up completely yet, as you could see in the photo. Fitting each four was a bit of a surprising struggle, but they got installed without much violence or threats of getting thrown into the trash.