The British Board of Ordnance Long Land Musket, Pattern of 1742 (1st Model Brown Bess for most of us) is finally available in Free Stuff. The P1742 was a more robust firelock than its predecessors, and served the crown for many years, including the Seven Years War and the American Revolution. The musket used as a model for this offering is a rare survivor from the Princeton Battlefield Museum and features the steel ramrod, lengthened and trumpeted front ramrod pipe and brass foreend cap of latter variants, possibly as a alteration. The 1745 dated Jordan lock is not itself determinative, as locks often sat in store for years before being fitted to a musket at The Tower. Troops often felt they were being issued 'old' guns when receiving newly completed weapons with earlier dated locks; the practice of dating locks was thus discontinued in the 1760s. Some Regiments stationed in North America still carried 1742s with wood rammers at the onset of the American Revolution. My alma mater from the reenactment days, the 10th Regiment of Foot, received updated muskets shortly before sailing for Boston. The model you will hopefully download and put to use will render to the quality of the above image 'out of the box' with no more effort than selecting which surfaces you'd like to adjust (brass, leather, sling leather, iron, iron stamps, and wood) and tweaking to taste and to accommodate scene lighting. Don't fret when the musket loads with lighter textures in Preview; this was deliberate as scene lighting can dramatically alter the appearance of wood, and not everyone wants the same level of darkness, bump, and gloss - and it's a lot easier to darken than the reverse. The above musket was tweaked for its render using these techniques in less than a minute using DAZ Surfaces sliders and rendered in 20 seconds with a well used 1080ti. No outside textures were added. For those rendering an extreme closeup or simply smitten with the high end texture bug, the musket responds well to outside influence. My go-tos in this regard are the Cathedral Walnut 59 from Rendernode, which can be a bit laborious, but I still prefer it. I haven't found a true flint texture to date... The included bayonet and rammer are separate props that load in position on the musket with the Parameters left on default. These can be then parented to the musket to move about as a unit or left unparented for posing elsewhere. The cock and hammer pose using Twist in Parameters. The lock is shown at rest in the above image; when carried, the frizzen would be closed and the cock set at half-cock. I know these sort of weapons are a bit arcane to most, but here it is regardless. Hope you have fun with it. A special thanks goes out to precogplasma; without his help this thing wouldn't exist.