Trip to the armed forces museum, part. 4 random stuff

And lastly random stuff.

A painting,

A jeger tunic

early 18th centuarly ship of the line

A comparsing of New piracy and old

The new

The Old

Norwegian "musketer" from the 1860s

Trenches of late 19th centuary and early 20th

German propaganda, dealing with the British efforts to mine the norwegian waters during the early part of WW2

German U-boat with Enigma machine

Closeup of the Enigma

Trip to the armed forces museum, part. 3 dioramas.

Well dioramas have a special place for us Wargamers
This museums have some nice ones, not fantastic I'm amazed ect. but some nice ones, infact one that stuck in my mind for years.

This is the battle of narvik,

This is a skirmish, were the norwegians managed to force the germans back,

This is a 1:1 diorama, a norwegian road block

Germans coming up.

Norwegians ready with a MG

This one have stuck with me for YEARS, I remember it cleary from when I was a small child, and I used to gang out in the museum.

Here the Blücher a German heavy cruiser, get hit by two torpedoes, this is after it got hit with everygun we had, from artillery to AA guns. I watched a documentary when one of the AA flack guns penitrated a bulkhead, and exploded in the middel of room, it tore dozens of germans to pieces.

Here after good long while it finnaly sucombs to the heavy fire and torpedoes about a 1000 germans died, and it slowed the invasion of Oslo enough for the Goverment and royal family go escape, setting up a goverment in exile in London.

This one I liked, good terrain, Mid 19th century stuff.

Trip to the armed forces museum, part. 2 GUNS!

I musket from the first half of the 18th century, can be seen by the wooden ramrod.

A matchlock Arquebus from the renesance,

These are one of those big Arquebus's that had to be mounted on a carrige, half way gun, half way cannon, the stange thing is that one of them have a flint lock, which is kinda out of place, I would think that the use of these had disaperd long before the flint lock was invented and used on a big scale, I smell a refit, someone up a more modern lock on a old gun, like they fit perccusion caps on old flint lock muskets.

Ok, not a "Gun" but this is one of the small medieval parts of the museum,



Flinklock guns

Back to the skiiking, we had skiing jëgers(jegere)

You se a jeger rifle, with a big baker rifle type sword bayonet.

Another jeger rifle fron early 19th century.

Musket from latter half if 18th century seen by the metal ramrod.

Blunderbuss. a funny thing about norwegians, they don't know the diffrence between a musket and blunderbus, becasue in norwegian they sould kinda the same, musket vs muskedunder.

Most people call all old guns for muskedunder, not knowing there is anything called a musket.

Kammerlader a norwegian form of breachloader, Norway was one of the first to adopt these "modern" weapons, I think as early as 1840s, so when most troops in the ACW used muzzle loading rifled muskets, we had breachloaders, ofcourse it's much easier to supply a 30 000 stong army, then a 200 000 strong army.

Now for the modern stuff, there is quite a large WW2 exibit,

This is a aircraft mounted Browing .30 cal



German Spandau Machingun WW1 era

Vickers MG

One of my favorites, the Bren Gun

Trip to the armed forces museum, part. 1 the artillery

Okdoky, was a trip to the Armed forces museum(Forsvarsmueet) It's free admition and it's ok to take pics, the museum has a nice gift shop wih nice but expencive military based books and mixed stuff, from E-Tools, to celebration cannons you can fire at birthdays and sutch.
The museum used to be the royal artillery museum, so it has a lot of hardware, I there are lots of more modern guns I didn't take pictures of,

First up is a 3pdr from latter half of the 18th century, it's suprisingly big, last time I was there they also had a 1pdr that was much bigger then I thought, infact almost the same size as the 3dr, I think they used the exact same carrige, only the tube was diffrent.

Horsedrawn gun, this is a 1pdr beeing drawn by a single horse, norway beeing full of mountians and forests made it hard to have big artillery, a 12pdr ain't much good if you can't get it to the enemy.

A more modern gun, but still muzzle loader, seem to be on the same tech level as ACW rifled guns.

This is a HUGE mofo, not mesuerd in pounds but in inches,


Sorry for very dark picture, it was in general a dark museum, this was the new type of artillery that started to show up late 19th century, and into WW1, but norway beeing norway this was probebly what the germans had to deal with when they invaded in 1940.

While the one over is the newest I have picture of, this is the oldest, medieval in age.



A section of a ship of the line, ca. early 1700s, I thought it was a big mo fo of 64pdr, but it's aperantly "only" a 32pdr, much much bigger then I thought.

What do norwegians love more then blowing up germans battle cruisers?

Whell skiing, and while you'r at it, why not bring some artillery on your cross country skiing trip, I wonder if they use these on the north pole expeditions, just incase they meat a REALY big polar bear.

A big howitzer, late 18th centuary

Same howitzer

Next up is one of my favorite subjects, no Not Jennifer Aniston, but GUNS, smaller ones this time.