Description

Webstore Exclusive! This artillery piece is supplied with a laser-cut oval MDF base (100mm x 80mm) – only available through this webstore. You can now base your complete gun and crew together, making attractive mini-dioramas!

Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Blacker was a retired Indian Army officer who dabbled in weapon research, especially in attempts to create an anti-tank weapon based around the spigot mortar concept: a barrel-less device that uses a steel rod the spigot to ignite a charge propelling a bomb into the air.

The War Office was unresponsive to Blackers approaches until a demonstration of the weapon ignited Winston Churchills boys own love of the dramatic. The mortar was mounted on a concrete pedestal or substantial cruciform platform so was immobile.

An unpopular device as an artillery weapon for obvious reasons, the Blacker Bombard nevertheless served as the template for the Royal Navys hugely successful forward-firing hedgehog submarine killer, which had a success rate ten times greater than depth charge attacks.

Models supplied unassembled and unpainted