elmarriachi Posted December 22, 2016 Author Share Posted December 22, 2016 Hello, the elevators for the munition are also finished now. First I have modified the crane hooks with some wheels inside and a hook made of wire. On the top of the elevators I have added also two wheels under the winch/engine and glued in place. Some wire cable was glued inside the hooks, then the hooks were hooked in the elevators and the cables spanned to the upper wheels and glued in place inside the winch. Now follows the painting of the elevators... Now I wish you all a MERRY CHRISTMAS! Cheers Micha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmarriachi Posted January 4, 2017 Author Share Posted January 4, 2017 Hello, a Happy New Year to all of you! Some first test with the figures .... lot of figures ... Trumpeter, MiniArt, .... And here they are .. And some comparing of the size of the Dora with the UHU glue bottle .... it is really huge Cheers Michael tucohoward, Hubert Boillot and TorbenD 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmarriachi Posted January 4, 2017 Author Share Posted January 4, 2017 Hello, a walkway under the gun barrel was made new with some brass tube and mesh... then painted and glued. Looks much bettter then the plastic part I think .... Now some painted figures... not finished yet.... not glued in place yet .... Hubert Boillot, alaninaustria, TorbenD and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmarriachi Posted January 4, 2017 Author Share Posted January 4, 2017 The guys need some further painting, weathering as well as the food, the ammunition and the other small stuff ... Cheers Micha The guys need some further painting, weathering as well as the food, the ammunition and the other small stuff ... Cheers Micha TaffyMan, Lars Befring, CATCplSlade and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Wow, that is a LOAD of figgies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaninaustria Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Amazing build!! Seeing this gun in all her glory is a testament to the insanity of war... I can't believe something like was built!! Cheers Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmarriachi Posted January 31, 2017 Author Share Posted January 31, 2017 I think it is done... after several years of working on the big "Dora" in scale 1/35 from Soar ART Workshop, several pauses, restarts and lot of modifications and work on that big thing... a great kit, but also some problems, mistakes or wrong sizes ... All together the final kit is a giant... and looking amazing. But for its high price I would have expected some less mistakes in the kit ... and some parts with more details ... But with some additional work it will become a great, impressive gun model ..... First I want to show you a short survey of what I have used and what I have done to the kit .... Which additional material have I used? And for what? - plastic stripes, profiles, ... in different shapes and sizes for the new walk ways, the frames under it, for detailing other parts, for hand rails and ladders. - brass pipes for walkways, aluminium profiles to strenghten the modified gun barrel from the inside, for other detail works - foto etched parts from other kits or with additional stuff such as hand rails, switches, mesh, used all around the kit from different brands and scales... - buffers from RB Modells (turned brass) for each wagon - balsa wood for the floor of each wagon - wire in different diamaters and material - ammo shells made of Aluminium from Schatton models - figures from Masterbox ("Women at War"),, Trumpeter ("German artillery crew", 2x "German railroad gun crew"), MiniArt ("German Artillery Crew", "German Tank Crew Normandy 1944"), ICM ("German Staff Personnel", "German armed vehicle crew") - wire rope for the elevators - chain in different sizes - food and bags from Reality in Scale - and some other stuff which I had as left from other kits Which colors have I used? - the main painting was done with German Grey from Tamiya, highlights and shadows were made with different lighter greys from Tamiya and Lifecolor - the bare steel on the wagons was painted in dark iron from Tamiya - the wooden floor was painted in oil colors, then German Grey and salt used for the used surface - details of the hole kit were painted mainly with different colors from Lifecolor - bare metal at the gun was made with rub'n buff and polishing powder from Uschi v.d. Rosten - Weathering was done with different oil colors, washes and filters from AK Interactive - clear coat matt and shiny from AK Interactive and Valleyo - figures were painted in colors from Lifecolor, Tamiya and Revell Aqua - bare metal at hand rails, used areas, ... was made with a graphit pensil and stell powder from Uschi rubbed with a finger ... The main areas which I have modified, the main changes which I did ... - the kit provides 4 wagons which was wrong. I have divided each in two and made all together 8 single wagons as base for the gun - the wooden floors of the wagons was made with balsa wood instead of the plastic parts - turned brass buffers from RB Models were used instead of the plastic parts - all walkways were made new with plastic profiles, brass stripes and pipes and aluminium mesh as new floor - all hand rails were lowered 1cm or - if two parallel handrails 0,5cm under and 0,5cm over the middle horizontal part - all ladders and steps were modified and corrected in their size - the gun barrel was cut in different sections, each shortend and corrected in length and form... installed aluminium parts to strengthen the new gun barrel - the engine room was modified, walkway, additional exhaust on top, modified exhausts on the under side and a full engine inside, visible through the open hatches - modification of the cable winches of the elevators and the crane hooks - new ammo made of turned aluminium in correct size and shape - modification and detailing of the loading mechanism on the upper plattform - several details added which were missing in the kit or not correct - made completely new decals on the computer, printed and added .... - and lot of more.... If you want to see more about the making of the kit please have a look at my website were I have explained everything in detail with lot of pictures. I hope that you like the result .... Fooesboy and Hardcore 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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elmarriachi Posted January 31, 2017 Author Share Posted January 31, 2017 ... some details ... Fooesboy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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elmarriachi Posted January 31, 2017 Author Share Posted January 31, 2017 Oh.... I think these were lot of pictures.... I am sorry for that Thank you so much for your interest in this project! Cheers, Micha Fooesboy and TaffyMan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClumsyDude Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Huh ... nothing short of a breathtaking modelling achievement. Amazing. Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorbenD Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Congratulations on such a stunning, mammoth build! The figures set this off beautifully Torben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Stunning build of a fascinating subject! I guess it is good for the world that Hitler made so many bad decisions. How could a weapon such as that possibly be justified on a rational level, give the resources involved to produce and operate it? There is no way it could have been a wise tactical or strategic use of time, money, and personnel. I honestly believe Hitler just thought it would be cool to make a really, REALLY big gun. A single air attack could have easily destroyed it.....or at least severely damaged it. I will admit it does not look like a particularly fragile piece of hardware..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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