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Light Macro Cannon 1:1 scale
   
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Light Macro Cannon 1:1 scale

Description
++Features++
1:1 scale model of a Warhammer 40K Light Macro cannon as seen in Battlefleet Gothic: Armada. Interior inspired by fanart.
Blueprint of the model.

Rooms top to bottom:
-Munitorum: A hall filled with ammunition for the gun. The crew transfers new shells into the feeder here.
-Main gun housing: A grand hall standing a hundreds of feet high, from the ceiling hangs the macro cannon itself.
-Munitions check and arming station: Located on the magazine, munitions purity is checked here.
-Prayer room for optics: Set above the barrel of the gun, the prayers here amplify the machine spirit.
-2 Crew briefing chapels on the sides of the Main gun housing.
-Underdeck for slave ratings. A large hall where the deck gang lives on mere scraps.

++Functions++
The cannon can be fired using any of the main button panels using Gun Trigger, the cannon then lights up and pushes hot plasma to the sides to vent heat from the chamber.
HERESY ALARM. A 30s alarm with siren and emergency lighting. Prevents the use of the cannon for heretical purposes.

And of course, some lore.

++Overview++
A Macrocannon is the largest member of the family of Auto Weapons and it has been used as a main armament on the warships of the Imperium of Man since the time of the Great Crusade in the late 30th Millennium. These massive ballistic weapons are deployed in batteries, and destroy their targets through the delivery of powerful broadsides of shells fired in volley to overwhelm their enemy in a barrage of destruction. Macrocannons are giant, edifice-size weapons covered with gantries, cranes, power lines and pipes manned by a crew that stands hundreds strong.

++Operation++
Located upon the gun decks of voidfaring capital ships, projectile-firing Macrocannons require large crews to handle and load their enormous shells into the waiting breeches. First, the breech must be opened by one crew pulling on massive pinions or chains, while the second crew ready the next shell to be loaded. Once the breech is open, the spent casing is extracted and the breech quickly cleaned by the third crew, under the watchful eye of a junior Tech-priest or Enginseer who checks for any damage or impurity. Next, the second crew loads the gargantuan shell into the breech, and quickly clears the way as the first crew starts closing the breech as soon as the shell is aligned with the barrel. Once the breech is closed and secured, the crews move to a safe distance waiting for the gun to fire and the loading cycle to start anew. Macrocannon crews also have to contend with sitting on top of a magazine full of enough munitions to level a city. Operating a Macrocannon is extremely taxing and tiring, and the sheer size and weight of the components makes any mishap that occurs almost always a fatal affair, crushing the life out of the poor wretches involved. Life expectancy amongst such crews is often measured in mere weeks.

Many starship captains still prefer the reliability of Macrocannons despite the medieval toil they inflict on the crew of their warship

++END++

Notes:
I TRIED making the gun movable, but it just isn't possible due to the sheer mass and weight of the gun. Every time I tried with rotors and pistons, it simply exploded with a CLANG. One time actually splitting the entire module in half.
20 Comments
EzaihSiX 12 Feb, 2019 @ 3:10pm 
no sorry.. it's not just the size of a cathedral... it's the size of an entire neighborhood.. atleast where I live.. where neighborhoods are about (500m x 500m)-(1500m x 1500m) which is quite small in comparison to other outlandish neighborhoods which are bigger than my country's capital.
EzaihSiX 12 Feb, 2019 @ 3:03pm 
BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! OMG That IS ABSOLUTELY HUMONGOUS!!!
I mean, man, just look at that... it's a freakin broadside cannon for a ship..
and it's the size of a FREAKIN CATHEDRAL!! Wowh..
I am truly amazed by the effort you put into this.
Titus Brutus Avituis 10 Oct, 2016 @ 10:39am 
that it would
Balthur 10 Oct, 2016 @ 10:18am 
That is just awesome espacaly the details, the hull side looks just like how it does in Battlefleet
Gothic. I have allways dreamt of having a 1:1 scale 40k ship (Dauntless class or even better a Retribution-class battleship) in space engeneers and i allready tried building one... untill i ran out of RAM...damn it. I wasent even half done :( . Lets hope the game gets better at handeling the Epic scale of warhammer 40k... your macro cannons would be perfect for such a project.
Titus Brutus Avituis 5 Oct, 2016 @ 8:10am 
so when the game can handle it will you make it actualy fire those shot from the ammo belt/tower ? if so it would be awsome
HammerJuice *DEUS VULT* 25 Jul, 2016 @ 1:46pm 
holy shit :D

thats not going to be a full build is it xD
OctoBooze  [author] 25 Jul, 2016 @ 10:04am 
@Bastelork as long as they aren't AS massive as this. AKA if they are reasonably sized projects, I could come and check of course if you need help with something. I don't often do WH40K ships since the workshop is already full of amazing creations and I feel there's little I could contribute to the greatness :)
Bastelork 25 Jul, 2016 @ 9:46am 
This is so fcking amazing! I wish Space Engineers would be playable with these large ships...
Would you consider to cooperate for some 40k builds?
Guzzo the Fat Rat 23 Jul, 2016 @ 9:32pm 
Wow nice work!
Roma-Draco 22 Jul, 2016 @ 10:13am 
you never trullly appreciate how friking HUGE ships are the warhammer until you see one of its MANY guns in a 1:1 scale....