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Hello everyone, just thought I'd show off the Medusa Heavy Mortar I've been working on. It's machined from a solid piece of aluminum on my mini benchtop lathe. I took known dimensions of the gun (taken from papercraft specs), and scaled an image of the Medusa in a CAD file, to get the rough dimensions I needed from there. Mine is not anywhere close to identical to the original, but I feel a bit of variation is okay.

I still need to make the brackets as well as many of the other parts, including the carriage.

You can make this gun to really shoot. and even kill...

Well, my other hobby is gunsmithing, so theoretically I could, but I won't for obvious reasons. I plan on tapping the breech end of the gun and threading in a 1/4-20 screw with a pan head because I don't have the capacity to cut pan shapes on my lathe. Boring the hole all the way through though was mainly for painting. I've found the easiest way to paint something cylindrical is to hang it up on a piece of wire. That way the paint does not get messed up with the piece rolling around on whatever the painting surface is.