After some 
days of shuffling the idea and doing some budgeting, decided to build from scratch two cannons to take and place at the top of the Morro Solar to be the artillery pointing at the ocean under Guillermo More's command: a huge 250 lbs. Vavasseur and a big 100 lbs. Parrot cannons.
Went today to show the carpenters some designs I was drawing and pictures I gathered around of the existing ones today in museums. It will be up to real scale so they will end up being huge. The tricky part will be to make them be easily disassembled to transport it all the way to the top of the Morro Solar and assemble them there and back.
I'll be dropping by the workshop often to supervise construction as those cannons are antique now and avoid construction errors regarding design.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Vavasseur and Parrot cannons construction
6:06 PM
By Juan Carlos Oganes
Batalla de Arica,
cannons,
cine,
Emporium Digital Studios,
film,
Gloria del Pacifico,
Guerra del Pacifico,
Juan Carlos Oganes,
Morro de Arica,
Morro Solar,
Parrot,
Peru,
Vavasseur
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Awesome!! muy ambicioso juan carlos ¿los cañones soportaran salvas? espero con ansias ver el resultado :)
Awesome!!! muy ambicioso Juan Carlos ¿esas replicas soportaran salvas? ¡ya quiero ver esos cañones!
Hola Alvaro. El plan es que se le pueda poner alguna carga falsa para simular el disparo aparte de colocarlo por computadora también.
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