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Thought I would have a go at a piece of British artillery, it will make a nice addition to the battlefield scenics. The plan is to make it with a recoil if possible. The Arduino Uno project is ideally suited to this as it can simply be plugged into a battery and will run all day unattended. This will allow me to hook it up to a pressure pad or light sensor so that when a tank comes within range it gets shot at. It will also have a full IR battle system attached. This means that it can be shot at and killed as well, complete with flashing hit led's.

Off to a good start. I like the idea of the light sensor - people will forget about that. The diorama should be no problem, struggling trying to find a gun crew though. I don't suppose you can design and 3D print people?

Ever since I got my first printer I have searched high and low for printable 1/16 WW2 figures, to no avail. Just the legs, arms and torso would be good enough as there are plenty of sources for heads and faces. I can print Brit helmets etc.

Theoretically, a detailed 1/35 or 1/18 one would do, as it is easy to scale a model up or down. A 3D scanner would be good, I could build one after the gun is done?

If you can do it, I am quite happy to invest in this set, if you think they would be suitable.https://www.wonderlandmodels.com/produc ... -gun-crew/ or this https://www.wonderlandmodels.com/produc ... oCkIbw_wcB

or even both of them

If you can hang fire on buying them, when I have completed the gun, I'll look at doing a 3D scanner. If I can't get the scanner to work, I wouldn't be able to make use of the gun crew. All I really need is a turntable, decent lighting and a decent camera. It's all do-able...it's time as always.

No rush

There's a phone app to do this, but the quality may suffer. If you've decent stl editing tools then shouldn't be an issue.

Ok, barrel done, recoil bed done, barrel recoils.

At this rate, it will be up and running by the time I get back home next Tuesday.

No chance of that, these are the easy parts....