How on earth can you transport that thing? Hell it won't even fit the bed of my pickup!
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Dora 1/35
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How on earth can you transport that thing? Hell it won't even fit the bed of my pickup!
Heavens Eagle
Well-known member
It isn't just the footprint, it is also the height. What will it be Abdin?
fledermaus
Master at Arms
Luiz, thanks!
Bob thats true, luckly I have an old 1985 toyota van that will work to move the beast removing the rear
seats that is...
Paul, Im going to verify that, with the added weigth of the brass parts, + figures, aluminum shells
Ammo cars, pvc base, rails, ballast, land scape etc etc oh my... its going to be heavy :frantic
I will check and let you know as now Im curious too :yipee
Bob thats true, luckly I have an old 1985 toyota van that will work to move the beast removing the rear
seats that is...
Paul, Im going to verify that, with the added weigth of the brass parts, + figures, aluminum shells
Ammo cars, pvc base, rails, ballast, land scape etc etc oh my... its going to be heavy :frantic
I will check and let you know as now Im curious too :yipee
Just beautiful Abdin,
You da Man!!!!!!!
Bob
You da Man!!!!!!!
Bob
fledermaus
Master at Arms
Thanks Bob!
The cars are almost finished, just finishing the weathering and are all done. :yipee
The cars are almost finished, just finishing the weathering and are all done. :yipee
fledermaus
Master at Arms
Hi people! Work on the ammo cars continues, so here we go…
It is time to make the cool air conduits connectors, flexible tubes were connected to this
So air conditioned air can circulate from one car to the next, this was needed to keep the
Powder charges at a low temperature to maximize its performance
In this photo you can see the cars connected with the flexible tubes
The connectors, two on the front and two on the back
To make this I used a piece of aluminum tube 12.4mm x 3.30mm
You need 4 for each car
A disk of .70mm x 13.6mm is glued to the back of each piece
Next another 13.6 disk is trimmed down to 12.4mm leaving 3 “ears” of
About 1.5mm equally spaced around the disk
The disks are trimmed to 12.4mm (the same diameter as the tubes) with a file
It should look like this
Using a knife the ears are cut open in the middle so a bronco models wing nut
Can be glued into it
I used two small pieces of styrene and glued to the sides of the wing nut
The wingnuts are to hold the cover in place when the conduits are not used
It all looks like this when finished, you need to make 8 of it in total
Now the conduits are glued in place, 3mm over the upper step and 8mm from the
top corner of the doors
Next the brake system is made, for this a piece of square styrene 4.7 x 4.7 4mm long
Is used.
The front is covered with a piece of styrene
I used the hand wheels from the dragon cars and a piece of 1.2 x 11mm long rod
With a small base 2.5 x 2.5 of .40 styrene to finish the mechanism
The finished brake system
Now I started the doors,
The doors are already cut from the front panels, so only the details need to be made
I started with the hinges, made from .90 x 5mm styrene rod cut in 4 pieces
The hinge plates are made from .30 styrene 2.5 x 2, 12 pieces for each set of doors
The doors in place with the hinge pins
The small top door hinge plates are .70 styrene 2 x 2.5mm with a .30mm x 20mm
Styrene rod
The doors handles are made using part #B4 from the dragon cars
The part is trimmed to shape
With the addition of the rails the cars construction is finished
The opened doors are being painted, that’s why this are
Missing now on both cars
A size comparison with my dragon stug III
Painting of the cars is almost finished, thanks for watching
Abdin
It is time to make the cool air conduits connectors, flexible tubes were connected to this
So air conditioned air can circulate from one car to the next, this was needed to keep the
Powder charges at a low temperature to maximize its performance
In this photo you can see the cars connected with the flexible tubes
The connectors, two on the front and two on the back
To make this I used a piece of aluminum tube 12.4mm x 3.30mm
You need 4 for each car
A disk of .70mm x 13.6mm is glued to the back of each piece
Next another 13.6 disk is trimmed down to 12.4mm leaving 3 “ears” of
About 1.5mm equally spaced around the disk
The disks are trimmed to 12.4mm (the same diameter as the tubes) with a file
It should look like this
Using a knife the ears are cut open in the middle so a bronco models wing nut
Can be glued into it
I used two small pieces of styrene and glued to the sides of the wing nut
The wingnuts are to hold the cover in place when the conduits are not used
It all looks like this when finished, you need to make 8 of it in total
Now the conduits are glued in place, 3mm over the upper step and 8mm from the
top corner of the doors
Next the brake system is made, for this a piece of square styrene 4.7 x 4.7 4mm long
Is used.
The front is covered with a piece of styrene
I used the hand wheels from the dragon cars and a piece of 1.2 x 11mm long rod
With a small base 2.5 x 2.5 of .40 styrene to finish the mechanism
The finished brake system
Now I started the doors,
The doors are already cut from the front panels, so only the details need to be made
I started with the hinges, made from .90 x 5mm styrene rod cut in 4 pieces
The hinge plates are made from .30 styrene 2.5 x 2, 12 pieces for each set of doors
The doors in place with the hinge pins
The small top door hinge plates are .70 styrene 2 x 2.5mm with a .30mm x 20mm
Styrene rod
The doors handles are made using part #B4 from the dragon cars
The part is trimmed to shape
With the addition of the rails the cars construction is finished
The opened doors are being painted, that’s why this are
Missing now on both cars
A size comparison with my dragon stug III
Painting of the cars is almost finished, thanks for watching
Abdin
You Know Abdin,
My comments are getting really boring! How many times can I say fantastic, awesome, incredible and beautiful????
Great job!!!!
Bob
My comments are getting really boring! How many times can I say fantastic, awesome, incredible and beautiful????
Great job!!!!
Bob
That squiggly camo will be cool
fledermaus
Master at Arms
Bob my friend thanks :v
Luiz thanks a lot
mike thanks, the stug I think was for a group build in another forum, I don't remember exactly
its being a wile
moon puppy I have being tented but just went for the plain grey color
HAHAHA John that's a good one, but it will be better in 1/2 scale :yipee
Luiz thanks a lot
mike thanks, the stug I think was for a group build in another forum, I don't remember exactly
its being a wile
moon puppy I have being tented but just went for the plain grey color
HAHAHA John that's a good one, but it will be better in 1/2 scale :yipee
fledermaus
Master at Arms
Hi to all
Our friend Paul(heavens eagle) pointed me of a possible error on the ammo cars in case I haven’t noticed it.
He noticed the width of the doors seem to be bigger than on the reference photo, and the width of the rungs also seemed bigger. The reason for all this is as follows, the ammo cars in my reference photos
Have many differences one from the other, for example in some of the cars the front step has being removed and the doors length increased to cover the gap, others have different size rungs and also different hand rails. The ammo car I used for reference have wider rungs, but in one of the photos I posted the car has shorter rungs.
So For the benefit of all I want to explain what I did it this way
The width of the doors on my cars is based on the width of the loading cart, in the following photos
You can see what I did.
This is the reference photo he is referring to
In this photo you can see that the cars seem to have the wider rungs and the doors partially covering it
Here the gap between the loading cart and the door is only about 4mm
This is the photo I used for the rungs and other details, here you can see the wider rungs so when the
Doors are opened it will cover part of the rung
Here is another example of the wider rungs
An example of shorter rungs also a different hand rail
The short rungs are also present in my reference photo but in the back side along with a hand rail
At first I did both sides with no hand rail only the bar with a grab handle, but this was corrected last
Week, the rungs in the back still need to be shortened as in the photo, thanks to Paul pointing this I noticed the shorter rungs at the back side,
Thanks to him I now noticed that the rear rungs need to be corrected, so THANKS my friend!
Sometimes we miss the most obvious details but that is part of the fun, correcting the mistakes
And having friends that help you pointing it out.
Abdin
Our friend Paul(heavens eagle) pointed me of a possible error on the ammo cars in case I haven’t noticed it.
He noticed the width of the doors seem to be bigger than on the reference photo, and the width of the rungs also seemed bigger. The reason for all this is as follows, the ammo cars in my reference photos
Have many differences one from the other, for example in some of the cars the front step has being removed and the doors length increased to cover the gap, others have different size rungs and also different hand rails. The ammo car I used for reference have wider rungs, but in one of the photos I posted the car has shorter rungs.
So For the benefit of all I want to explain what I did it this way
The width of the doors on my cars is based on the width of the loading cart, in the following photos
You can see what I did.
This is the reference photo he is referring to
In this photo you can see that the cars seem to have the wider rungs and the doors partially covering it
Here the gap between the loading cart and the door is only about 4mm
This is the photo I used for the rungs and other details, here you can see the wider rungs so when the
Doors are opened it will cover part of the rung
Here is another example of the wider rungs
An example of shorter rungs also a different hand rail
The short rungs are also present in my reference photo but in the back side along with a hand rail
At first I did both sides with no hand rail only the bar with a grab handle, but this was corrected last
Week, the rungs in the back still need to be shortened as in the photo, thanks to Paul pointing this I noticed the shorter rungs at the back side,
Thanks to him I now noticed that the rear rungs need to be corrected, so THANKS my friend!
Sometimes we miss the most obvious details but that is part of the fun, correcting the mistakes
And having friends that help you pointing it out.
Abdin
Heavens Eagle
Well-known member
I saw that as well and sent a PM. It is always good to at least ask a question, it gave us some more looks at the cars in question, and there are some variations between cars.
It is also possible that the car in the one photo with the doors open flat is actually for a different gun as the doors in that photo do look narrower. The Dora had some huge shells so it is possible that the cars were different for it.
It is also possible that the car in the one photo with the doors open flat is actually for a different gun as the doors in that photo do look narrower. The Dora had some huge shells so it is possible that the cars were different for it.
fledermaus
Master at Arms
Paul, youre right, it was you who pointed the differences,already fixed it, sorry about that, I was replaying to the comments of the other guys and mixed johns last comment with your message, sorry about my mistake my friend And thanks for your concern and help
Abdin
Abdin
phantom II
Master at Arms
I have run out of adjectives long ago 
Masterful progress for sure . Looking forward to the paint work on the wagons . They look pretty wild .
Cheers, Christian B)
Masterful progress for sure . Looking forward to the paint work on the wagons . They look pretty wild .
Cheers, Christian B)
fledermaus
Master at Arms
Thanks a lot Christian!, already working for the paint and decals photos
Thanks
Abdin
Thanks
Abdin
Heavens Eagle
Well-known member
Abdin you are truly doing some awesome work on this and you don't need to aplogize to me for anything. I know how involved builds like this can be and just noticed the difference in the reference photo. I think that one I referenced might be for a K5 as the doorway is a bit narrow for the shell for the Dora. Always hard to tell for sure sometimes as those putting forth the reference and others referring to it and really get it all cross threaded.
Trumpeter's Ju87A is a good example of people mis-applying poor reference. That one is a mess.
Keep up the great work! I am trying to doc it for if I possibly ever obtain one.
Trumpeter's Ju87A is a good example of people mis-applying poor reference. That one is a mess.
Keep up the great work! I am trying to doc it for if I possibly ever obtain one.
mike walsh
Master at Arms
Abdin,
Hats off, man you really do an exceptional job scratchbuilding.
Michael
Hats off, man you really do an exceptional job scratchbuilding.
Michael
