Dora 1/35

That's amazing, the wire under the generator was well worth the effort. Looks amazing!

Amazing attention to detail. This build still blows me away, its fantastic.
James

Bob thanks, all this small details make the model more accurate and interesting, plus I love scratch building

James, I always wanted to make my dora different from all the others out there, plus correct as many errors and add as many details as I can in my kit

Hi my friends, finally have taken some time to do the last chapter of the Dora journey. its being a while since my last post, but finally ended the work I started so many years ago, currently have being working on about 5 models at the same time, but made a halt to finish the Dora and here it is

The schatton aluminum shells and cases are primed and painted. a white stripe is painted on the shells as seen on some of the videos of the gun


the same with the case, I have seen a thin black line on some photos but on the videos it has a white band painted on it.




next I printed some decals to simulate the markings on the cases and powder charges


again looking at the videos I made a scketch of the position of the markings


powder bags with markings and shells with white stripes




case with markins and white stripe




and my reference photos, captures from video






now I modified the elevator car and the elevator with magnets in case I need to take the elevators platform appart for transport.

a hole is drilled for the first magnet


next a rectangular hole is made for the second one




I 3d printed a rectangular base for the second magnet




now the elevator received two bases for the corresponding magnets


the 3d printed bases ready to install under the elevator




now the elevator stays in place with out the need of gluing it, if I need to remove it just pull it up and disconnect the pulley from it




playing a bit with photoshop I added a background photo


I printed a couple of maps of the savastopol area for the officers


all the figures painted and in place

with a background


I made a 3d printed nameplate

painted and ready



unit logos are 3d printed





unit logos are painted and installed along with the name plate



the name plate in place with the painted unit logos


and now I think I can call this finished, it was a long journey but finally got finished. lots of work went into it and Im proud of the final result. dont now if I will be adding more figures in the future, will see...

want to thank you all that followed the evolution of this build and hope to see you Im my next proyects

Thanks!
Abdin

Love it ,you did a stellar job !

Abdin for the Win! notworthy

What is the finished out size of the base?

Please share with us what else you have on your workbench!

Spectacular!

Wow.. that's...wow. 10 years in the making. It turned out magnificent!

Just absolutely amazing work. This is just outstanding. Bravo Zulu
James

Piet thanks!

Bob, thanks my friend, currently working on this models:

Tstoff tank truck resin conversion with Italery opel blitz
B stoff tanker Italery
3D printed generator trailer
V2 rocket with Hanomag
Flak Zwilling with 3D printed tower vault
sdkfz 7/3 v2 control halftrack with resin launching table w/trailer
Bronco LWS late

so the bench is full at this moment, Im now continuing working on the V2, its almost finished painting all the parts, update soon

Barney thanks a lot!

Paul thanks, glad you like it

Greg thanks, it took a long time, but there was so many mods and added details made to it. many times I took a breack from it for months. I have never cut and modified so many parts of a model as I did with this one, but at the end you get to look at all that effort pay off. its worth it!

James, thanks my friend!

WOW! What a project!
What a ride, thank you for posting all of your hard work over the last 10 years? Just incredible and congratulations on completing this massive project and for the inspiration it gives.......

I can honestly post this as Bob and I talked about this build when on one of my visits to him. He was following this build quite closely as he also had one of these kits in his stash. Had plans to build it up as during assembly or half assembled probably with bits, pieces and parts all over.

Bob Letterman would have loved the way you finished this build.

fledermaus said:

Bob, thanks my friend, currently working on this models:

Tstoff tank truck resin conversion with Italery opel blitz
B stoff tanker Italery
3D printed generator trailer
V2 rocket with Hanomag
Flak Zwilling with 3D printed tower vault
sdkfz 7/3 v2 control halftrack with resin launching table w/trailer
Bronco LWS late

Click to expand...

I see at least 6 new threads we could be following here...

Beyond belief. Gary S.

Ian, thanks! the schnell boot and now the Dora are my biggest builds now, both where hightly modifyed and detailed and time consuming
but well worth the efford. Im glad I finished Dora as its being a long journey but finally done.

Paul, it makes me sad that Bob didnt saw the end of the build, so I dedicate the build to him, this one is for you Bob where ever you are now I know
you must be happy with the result as we all know how much you liked to do this kind of builds as you are the large diorama master.
RIP Bob Letterman

Bob, the final measurements of the dio are:
6 foot 6 inches long
18 inches wide
24 inches hight

its a monster
still debating with the wife its finall location

starting to post soon on the builds