Dora 1/35

[moon puppy]

Nice job on the soldiering, very clean joints. Did you have some sort of jig to get the consistent shape of the bend? (it's a personal thing, I could never do 4 bends the same way).

 

[Swordsman]

Very nice Abdin .... Glad to see your still on this one ... excellent work ... :woohoo: :dude

 

[phantom II]

Very impressive work Waiting on more

Cheers, Christian B)

 

[jknaus]

Awesome work
James

 

[Piet]

:dude

 

[lupanzer]

Work of art!....

Luiz

 

[bob letterman]

Great Job!!!!

On top of that, I have one of these waiting in the wings and this SBS will save me a lot of time!!

Thanks for posting and keep up the great work!

Bob

 

[Iron Mike]

Excellent work, Abdin! Please show us your bending method? :drinks

 

[JSteinman]

Impressive - but I wonder how much glue you have used so far, and how you are going to paint it. It would take me 3 years to paint and weather that thing!

 

[SA Dave]

Hi to you all, here with another update on Dora, work on the main body halves continues
Now with the addition of the extra hand wheels and valves.

To make the extra parts I made a rubber mold of the valves from one of the sides




Here the mold is ready


The valves are ready


The same with the hand wheels




Here the extra parts are glued in place on both the inside and outside of each body half








Now the cat walks are constructed for each side, out and inside of the bodies
The inside cat walks




Comparison of the new and original parts


The same with the outside cat walks




Now I moved to the side ladders, this are 4 ladders one for each end of the main body’s halves
This are too big, out of scale

So using 1.5mm brass rods I started to make the ladders, here is the used rod, the original ladder and the replacement one.



The shape is corrected



All the needed parts are cut and bent to shape


The center reinforcement is soldered in place


Next the steps are cut and soldered


The finished new ladders


All the hand rails and ladders are finished for the main body halves


The supports for the main loading platform area need some correction, the two pillars on the back of the platform are supposed to be double and are a single piece.

I marked the area to be cut with masking tape, then drilled holes all around to make it easier to
Remove the plastic.


Side look of the part ready to be drilled and cut


The holes are done, then you have to remove some reinforcement plastic from the inside


With all the plastic removed it now looks like this






The two new legs now need some reinforcement pieces to hold it together
Starting from the bottom a piece of styrene the size of the area between the two legs


The piece in the middle is made with two squares the same size of the area with two ribs on the inside


The top is glued to the center parts


The upper square is installed


Finally the upper and lower squares received a rib on the middle area to finish the work


Now each side looks like this


Lots of work still to do thanks for watching

Abdin

Hot DANG

 

[fledermaus]

Hi and thanks my friends glad you like it so far,
Moon puppy and Iron Mike, here is how and what I use to bend the brass parts, the ladders for example I first bend the round top with the use of a plastic styrene rod with the needed diameter, then using this 3 edge pliers I do the 45 angles, it can be used for any angle you need




This plier is part of a bending pliers set I got from micromark, here are the other 3



Each have a unique shape for different bending options
This is the same I used to bend the hand rails on Dora

 

[fledermaus]

Jsteinman so far the count is 5 bottles of ABS glue and there is still a lot to do, for the grey color I have 8
modelmasters panzer grey spray cans, this I remove from the cans to use with my air brush, but ounce I start painting
then I will have an idea of how much more Im going to need and I now its going to be a lot!!!! :gogo

 

[moon puppy]

Nice tools!

 

[Iron Mike]

Thanks for sharing that, Abdin. I have that same set of pliers and have only mastered a couple of them. You make it look easy. :drinks

 

[lupanzer]

Impressive skills... just perfect

Luiz.

 

[phantom II]

Thanks for sharing those tips . I bet you did not get there overnight . :coolio

Cheers, Christian B)

 

[Duke Maddog]

Thanks for posting those pliers. I was wondering how you did that as well. I need to pick up a couple sets of those. I wonder if they would also work on styrene rod.

 

[fledermaus]

Go for it Duke, is a very nice and usefull set. I have tried on wire and brass so far but not in plastic yet

 

[ausf]

This is a real treat, thank you.

 

[jknaus]

I keep looking at this and am just in awe of the detail you are adding. When I first heard this kit was coming out I wanted it so bad but it was way beyond my means. Still I looked for ways to get one. I am now so happy I didnt get it as looking at you work I know this would be sitting gathering dust. Keep it up and I'll keep on watching
James