Lewis machine-gun plans/sketches/technical drawings

[Tony Smith]

Hi, Daryl, which part of NZ are you in? There are certainly more than 3 Lewis MGs in NZ. I have physically handled 2 of them and have seen the number of them bought by Peter Jackson in Wellington from the Royal Nepalese Armoury. Think you'd be looking at more than 30 in NZ.

PJ's mates at the Omaka Heritage Centre have done some outstanding work with resin replicas for their static and flying WW1 aircraft. Perhaps drop them a line, or drop in over Easter 2009 for a chat.

Originally Posted by Big D

..and being a firearms collector as well..

Are you in the NZAAHA? The President of the Canterbury Branch does some excellent work producing solid, non-firing MG replicas in Aluminium, and has even done a couple set up for Gas-Firing. At this stage, I think he has done 6 different MGs so far, and one might have been either a Lewis or a Vickers K.

[Big D]

Hi Bob,

I thought I’d sent you a follow up message saying that I’d confirmed buying the Swanpool carrier. Obviously I didn’t so apologies for that.

Your comments about the restoration costs between the two I looked at were spot on. The condition of the Swanpool carrier was that good and there was little that had to be done to it, so I couldn’t resist in the end.

As far as the story board goes – Denise (understandably) wasn’t prepared to let that go at this stage. I only briefly looked at it so am not sure about the run numbers. I will see if she will take some photographs of the relevant parts of the story board. Hopefully that might fill in the gaps so will come back to you on that.

Thanks.


Hi Tony,

I live in Dunedin and am a member of the NZAAA. I have previously spoken to the guy in Christchurch who does the replica firearms. Rod Woods is his name. In fact I have one of his Browning .30 cals on my Willys jeep. I wasn’t aware of him doing the Lewis gun replicas but I did email him and hopefully will hear back.

You could well be right about the number of Lewis guns here in NZ. To be honest, I hadn’t even considered what Peter Jackson has at Omaka. I was discussing it with a few collectors here (some of whom have been collecting for 50 years) and between them they could only think of three in the whole country in private collector’s hands. Again, we didn’t consider what Mr Jackson had though.

Like you say, it is probably worth me writing to Omaka and seeing what they could do.

Thanks.

[Lynn Eades]

Nice carrier. Well done! Welcome to the forum!

[Big D]

Thanks Lynn.

Its good to be here after all this time looking!

[Treadhead]

This a small sample plan at 20% of the larger plan size I have.
Is this of any help to you, If so I can upload the full sized drawing (which I think is actually about 75% scale) however it is just over half a meg, I'll have to upload it to rapidshare, not only will this take time (dial-up) but I also seem to be having a devil of a time accessing this forum, so don't be surprised if you don't hear back from me till tomorrow.

[Treadhead]

see what I mean, it didn't even upload the damn photo ARGH!!!!!!!

http://img218.imageshack.us/my.php?i...ssamplerc7.jpg

[Big D]

Hi Col,

Yeah, that is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for. I found something similar on the net but I don't think it was anything like the half-meg size of the one you have. If you could upload at your convenience, that would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Darryl

[Tony Smith]

Originally Posted by Tony Smith

Peter Jackson's mates at the Omaka Heritage Centre have done some outstanding work with resin replicas for their static and flying WW1 aircraft. Perhaps drop them a line, or drop in over Easter 2009 for a chat.

So Daryl, is a trip to Marlborough on your calendar? I've had a chat to H about these. OHC/Weta have only done Air Service versions of the Lewis, but ought to be able to come up with some Land Service patterns, the stuff that these guys can do with resin is mind blowing. If not H will be happy to assist you convert one to Land Service.

[Big D]

Hi Tony,

It was tempting but we have just moved house and I just didn't have the time to get up to Omaka this year.The last time I was up at Omaka was 2005 so I was overdue for another visit. Hopefully next time.

I haven't spoken to Hamish for some time but I know he was pretty busy organising for the show. I have my fingers crossed that he is still able to do something.

By the way - Taieri went well. A good turnout of vehicles but the weather was against us and it started pouring down after lunch. Murray D. had a few of his toys out and put on a good display.

Cheers

Darryl