"6mm Mortars for Bomb Ketches" Topic

Hello

I am wanting to convert a few bomb ketches. Does anyone know of a 6mm 19th century and earlier mortar style piece? 10mm mortars I can find are certainly too big. I figure a 6mm mortar for infantry (or a large siege mortar style thing) would work fine at 1:700 or roughly 2.5mm instead.

I do not play 6mm, but have run into a few brands like Bacchus and dont really see anything.

Maybe this post will ring a bell for someone who is very deep into 6mm, as I continue to look.

Thanks

As for 6mm stuff……Irregular Miniatures has a mortar in its 6mm 18th Century range, but 6mm is roughly 1/300 not 1/700. Peter Pig has mortar rafts in its 1/600 ACW naval range, but IIRC the models are one-piece so you might have to cut the mortar free of the raft to use them.

On the other hand and probably more useful for you, albeit perhaps a bit more complicated…..

Bay Area Yards had 1/600 ACW mortar rafts with the mortars as separate castings, and maybe had mortar castings for land batteries. Bay Area Yards shut down its web store a few years ago, BUT

I believe the owner of the store is a member here and he occasionally posts notices here of castings he has for sale on eBay-I've bought from his eBay store once or twice.

Also, there's a Facebook page for Bay Area Yards (with a photo of the mortar raft) with some indication that he accepts product orders by messages sent to him through Facebook; the most recent reference I saw there to an order was January 2024, so maybe you could order some 1/600 mortars or mortar rafts from him through his Facebook page-

The name of the Facebook page is Bay Area Yards, so it should be easy to find.

Thanks for the reply Dennis. I appreciate the ideas and leads.

I will check out the bay area yards page and see if I can get a bite. Any sort of seperate mortar casting of workable size would do.

My first thought was, "6mm? I thought the smallest mortars in the period were about 8"!"

Not helpful, sorry.