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Dora or Schwere Gustav 1/35 in progress
panzer67
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Posted: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 - 06:59 PM UTC
hilbert, these are some pics of the miniature...

enjoy the show...











will upload more what are in the camera and need to process
but
HILBERT
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Posted: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 - 04:10 AM UTC
You must be grazy :-) :-)

I had a topic started in the dutch forum, and all opinions came out about we should lend a hangar from concord
How long is this beast? Must be longer then a meter for sure!
How long have you been busy on this project? Look promising! And take a lot of pictures of the result.

Are there coming a lot of figgies on it?

panzer67
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Posted: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 - 04:36 AM UTC
the model is 180 cms x30 x 60
i work on it only at nights, but on hollydays i work no more than 4 hours on it because need to do different things to dont be boured...
this way i complete the leopold,the Siegfried, locomotive Ti3, locomotive BR86 at the same time
and actually working on the family bruno of german railguns actualyworking on 28 cms kurze bruno and 24 cms theodore bruno as intense and light on 28cms schwere bruno and 28cms lange bruno
because i have 2 years working on it but this last year i let it rest... ( that means one year of work )

will have at the end aproximatly 15 figures to show the dimensions from differents angles and details

at january must be finished all as you can see in pics just resting the main gun and the connections betwen the 2 principal structures ( ineed to solve the problem of the overweight of the main gun because is very large and will have many weight, so will need to do in solis metqal a countrweight at the oposite side to stabilize the model)

as i work based on a set of 9 plans of the model, the only thing to do is follow the steps of assembling as the real gun showed on a german book.

HILBERT
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Posted: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 - 05:54 AM UTC
So you have only used reference pics?? No drawings at all??
Wow, about scratchbuilding
panzer67
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Posted: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 - 05:57 AM UTC
i have a set of 9 engeneering plans or linedrawings covering almost all the details , a book showing all the process of assembling of the real dora and pics
with the plans and the book is enough reference to do it in scratch...
HILBERT
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Posted: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 - 05:59 AM UTC
That was fast.

What did you use? Evergreen? Metal, wood??

panzer67
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Posted: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 - 06:06 AM UTC
evergreen for strips and rails, ( details )
i bought sheets of styrene of 4 X 8 ft of almost all the thikness i transfer the drawings to the styrene and then the mototool dremel makes all the work ( i repaired a year ago for excess of use ) all in manual mode no drilling machines, the mototool in one hand and the styrene in other hand.

for the main gun will use Nylamid or a engeneering plastic more light to minimize the weight

i used a small ammount of wood to do the shoes or supports for firing position ( showed onside the rails )

no metal until now...

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