1/16th scale sFH 18 Howitzer

Heavens Eagle said:

@Sharkmouth Saúl is the only person I know that might have that kind of info.

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I believe I do but am still fighting to recover a drive... 20.4 hours in and only 60% done. Plenty of bad sectors but I should be able to recover files and then, mount the bridge (that Dell forces me to use) so I can mount my drive that powers up the WSAN (to access older files and scans).

Sharkmouth said:

I believe I do but am still fighting to recover a drive... 20.4 hours in and only 60% done. Plenty of bad sectors but I should be able to recover files and then, mount the bridge (that Dell forces me to use) so I can mount my drive that powers up the WSAN (to access older files and scans).

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Oh crap Saúl! I am guessing it is an old platter type drive. I gave up on those when I built my 2016 machine and have not looked back. I have several large external SSD drives that I save all my important stuff to and only fire them up to access or add to the info on them. (wonderful USB 3.0) The thing about SSD drives is that if you just access the info it doesn't seem to affect it at all. From what I understand, it is the write, delete, rewrite, etc. that causes them to start failing over time.

I have a couple of ancient DEATH KNELL machines around here someplace that my brother gave me and I never have used them.

No hurry on any ammo info for the howitzer. Not sure which shells I will make masters of, but can "just" make out dimensions on most of them and then can do my drawing skills to get reasonable sizing. Biggest problem will be finding some 3/8 or 7/16 diameter acrylic rod to make the masters out of. Thing is they don't need to be super accurate, just really close which is possible with what I have. 15cm dia comes in at .369 diameter in 1/16th scale, so definitely NOT tiny by any stretch.

Good luck with the data recovery!

Heavens Eagle said:

Oh crap Saúl! I am guessing it is an old platter type drive.

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Actually the death knell is on an SSD which is still under warranty. The manufacturer wants me to send it back on my dime but I figured I would perform a byte-by-byte back up and try a recovery of the data. Almost thirty hours in and 14% at step two:


I have a mix of SSD and HDD, SSD for speed and HDD for file storage size.

In the meantime, @Heavens Eagle, do you know this site covering the cases?
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Metal container for 3 propellent cases of 15 cm s.Fh.18 (Schwere Feldhaubitze 18). Closed by four hooks. Hinges by 2 removable hooks. Two metal side handles. The Wooden model was phased in as a replacement.
Dimensions: 57.5cm x 30cm x 21cm





Wooden case for 3 propellent charges of 15 cm s.Fh.18 (Schwere Feldhaubitze 18). Closed by one or two hooks. Two metal hinges. Two side handles in wood or cord. This box replaces the metal model.
Dimensions: 60cm x 30cm x 24cm
















Metal box for the propellant charges of the 15 cm s.F.H.18 gun. Push-fit closure of the lid. A handle on the lid for pulling off (not for carrying). This model was packaged in a case for 4 boxes.
Dimensions: 15cm x 20cm



Wooden box wood for 15 x 15 cm s.F.H.18 propellant charges. Removable lid. Closure with a hook. Two rope handles. This case contained cartridge cases intended for armaments factories for Loading.
Dimensions: 100cm x 60cm x 33cm

This russian site (link not secure now) cleared up the manual images:


Auction site kasten (cases)


Visit this site for more photos:


Auction site with inert shell:

Well @Heavens Eagle, I figured to grab the drive and connect it with a cable to retrieve more information:




Check your message Paul as I sent the complete file as a PDF since the text is very relevant to what you want.

@Heavens Eagle, you might have received all I have sent in the message BUT I won't know until I get to mount my drive into the new Dell. Fortunately, the bridge for the PC box to mount that drive arrived.

Now, Paul, all I have to do is wait for this to finish (which also looks like good news as Disk Drill is doing a good job of recovering bad sectors (while filling my 10TB drive almost to the limit!
Getting closer! Only 37 and a half hours in! Yes, I am a stubborn and FRUGAL old man!

I haven't kept up on PC hardware, too busy moving MAC addresses around (not that MAC). How does a SSD get bad sectors?

moon puppy said:

I haven't kept up on PC hardware, too busy moving MAC addresses around (not that MAC). How does a SSD get bad sectors?

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No clue but perhaps it has to do with the heavy physical and software security I run on it 24/7... I tested it and the temperature shot up in about 120 seconds of boot up causing Windows to freeze. I know about what you're referring to as I use MAC (Media Access Control) address logging to preclude outsiders from my WSAN.

Am I paranoid or something?

Just a little on the paranoid side eh what?
I simply shut down my machines and have them where I "HAVE" to manually turn them on.
Infoverload "Oh Yeah" I should be able to make a master for the cases as well. Turning the ammo masters is just a matter of drawing up which one's I want to use and adding dimensions. Then making a big mess with a lot of acrylic scrap strings and dust.

Thanks Saúl

Still working on recover, almost two days later!

Holy crap Saúl! I had a memory card go bad on me at one point where I couldn't write to it, but it was still readable.

What brand of drive is it? I only use Samsung drives and have had no problems with them so far. (knock wood) Have 5 drives in my machine. Two were originally set up as RAID 0 in the machine back when it was built in 2016. Decided that probably wasn't a good idea though and redid everything to regular drives after that. If the computer dies, I can still hook them up to a new machine and read them. All except the C drive are just storage anyway.

The 'Team Group' SSD was indeed my OS (C) drive, all others are regular HDD for storage. 55 hours later, Step 4, getting close....