Livens Large Gallery Flame Projector Diorama Ideas

Livens Large Gallery Flame Projector      Diorama Idea

Well I wanted to share some information about the Livens Large Gallery Flame Projector. I really recommend watching the video's on YouTube that I posted. There are 4 video's in this series titled:

 T.T. The Somme's Secret Weapon 1/4, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4. It shows the actual excavating of a Livens Large Gallery Flame Projector. I am very interested in scratch building a 54mm version of this incredible weapon. I would love to show it underground in its natural environment, along with its operating crew of 8 men. I am thinking about doing a side view. Sorry for this bad picture, but this is the general idea.

Livens Large Gallery Flame Projector

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGxP7F2GUwY

                                                                       Video T.T. The Somme's Secret Weapon

 

 

Livens Large Gallery Flame Projectors were large experimental flamethrowers used by the British Army in World War I.
They were named after their inventor, a Royal Engineers officer William Howard Livens. Four were deployed in 1916 the Battle of the Somme and one in 1917 in an offensive near Diksmuide, Belgium. Two of the weapons at the Somme were destroyed by German shelling before they could be used, but the other two were used at the start of the offensive. Their use is a possible explanation for helping the success of the British in those particular sectors of the front. British losses there were comparatively low.^[1]
The weapons were 56 feet (17 m) long, weighed 2.5 long tons (2.5 t), took a carrying party of 300 men to bring the pieces to the front line and assemble it and it was operated by a crew of eight. The weapon was designed to be used from a shallow tunnel dug under no man's land. The weapon consisted of a long chamber containing the fuel, a 14-inch (360 mm) diameter pipe and a nozzle on the surface. A piston-driven compressed gas was pushed into the long fuel chamber – and fuel was forced out of the surface nozzle, ignited and directed to the target.^[1][2] The maximum range of the weapon was 30 to 40 m (100 to 130 ft).^[3]
Historians Peter Barton and Jeremy Banning with archaeologists Tony Pollard and Iain Banks from the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology at Glasgow University were successful in May 2010 in finding at Mametz the remains of one of the Livens Large Gallery Flame Projectors. This project was undertaken for a Channel 4 Time Team documentary first broadcast on 14 April 2011. A full size, working model of the weapon was constructed to prove its efficacy.^[4]

About Me.

Hello everyone, my name is Tim Rigsby, and I love to build models. My love has always been World War One, so you will see allot of posts regarding this subject. I have also recently started getting into the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905, The Balkan Wars 1912-1913 as well as numerous other Wars dates and time periods. I will be posting my works, and thoughts regarding other peoples works I like, and on subjects I am interested in. I welcome anyone interested in theses and other subjects to join me in this discovery adventure.