Hello Folks , and a Happy New Year , to you all , and Happy Modelling .My GF summed me up right away on purchase of a 1/35 Dora , quote " I got some bad news for you " Sunshine " , don’t even think of it ". However , I will be purchasing a M1A1 Aim , by Dragon , plus an AFV Club Centurion or two . So compromise works . God Bless her !
PERSEVERANCE
Hi all,
here is a short update:
due to its size the manufacturer is going to resize the box measurements to meet the rules for the postal systems. This is to your benefits and might take until March. They also are reworking the molds where necessary. After we got the test shot in December there were still some bits to correct.
Again, Heller, Modelers-Paradise and others are NOT the manufacturer but the distributors who import and resell these kits.
The Manufacturer is in Hong Kong and doing OEM work for some major Japanese companies.
I have no concern that this Dora kit will be the best you can get for your money.
The details are there but everyone is free to superdetail where one individual may think it is necessary. As for me, it would be ok out of the box ( well, the alu barrel is a NICE add on, thou).
Waiting patiently like you for this kit.
Hans
Modelers-Paradise Ltd.Co.
Hi All
I`ve been reading all your comments about where your would keep such a thing in your homes!, JUST THINK IF YOU WANTED TO SHOW IT lol.
It is amazing that someone is manufacturing this kit in 1/35th scale. I probably already have the price of this kit invested in my 1/35th Deutsche Reichbahn, kits. I have $600.- just in locomotives. I bought the CMK kit when you could only buy resin BR52’s. So go ahead and thank me for the Trumpeter release (arrrgh!) Actually my Wife bought it for me (the CMK kit, and the Trumpeter kit). When I brought up the DORA, she just pointed at my partially built CMK locomotive and my mint in the box Trumpeter locomotive, and said “Maybee when these are completed”.
Actually it does not fit my time frame/area. I am building the Kursk build up. I am also waiting for a in box review at least. before I buy anything that costly. Hats off to anyone who has already put a down payment on this kit. $199.- for a aluminum barrel and probably $600.- in photo etch once this is released.
Hi Hans,
Thnks for the update. Just would like to know if there is any chance the manufacturer would consider downscaling the kit to 1/72 in the future… given it’s also a major scale in armor and there are already other related kits (eg: Karl & Leopold). Also some rolling stock would be nice (locomotives, armored cars, flatbeds, etc.)
I’d personally like to buy one in this scale, to show it along my “Leopold” and “Karl” 1/72 kits (once I build them! ).
Cheers,
Diego.[8D]
http://www.greatmodels.com/main/Reviews/Hellerdora/railway.htm
at the rate that i finish kits, this kit is gonna take me like 5 hiatuses and 15 years
Marc, I hear ya, there is no way in hell I’d spend 700+ on something that does not even exist yet, and only has about one dozen pics floating around the net.
Truth be told, it’s the one thing that stopped me as well. That and the fact that an aluminum barrel for it runs $200 alone. [:O] I’m sure it will come to production and some very happy people will build it and I’ll be content to observe their efforts and the finished product from the sidelines. [;)]
the weight of the aluminium barrel is excessive for the model.
the lenght is aprox 90 cms and the pivoting axis can`t support that weight ( more than20 pounds )
im working on my own dora at 1/35 from a set of plans and would needed a counterweight of more than 30 kgs to keep flat the barrel, withot use an EXTRA SUPPORT
the only solution is a lightweight engeneering plastic in a turning lathe. consider the specific gravity of the piece… its easy to do a barrel alone, but combine with the model is the problem.
Do you have pictures of your work in progress? I suppose we have you to thank for a 1/35th DORA. If you scratchbuild it someone will make one in plastic.
Best Regards,
Mark
Thanks for the warning about the aluminum barrel, panzer67. I was about >that< close to biting the bullet and getting one when my Dora arrives. Now I’ll fall back to plan “B” which is to use my dad’s lathe to turn one from hardwood or clear acrylic stock if the plastic kit one is not up to standards.
I would really like to see some pics if you have. That is one monster to work on!
whoa, a 90 cm barrel weighs that much? how much does a Tiger barrel weigh? I never used one before and I was curious because aluminum is know as a light metal…
The Tiger barrels are fairly lightweight by comparison. It was only an 8.8cm gun. [:D]
I uploaded some pics some time ago…
Until now had 7000 pcs and will need another 2000 more i think
I`m working in parallel these railguns:
and others more…
but will upload later.
i hope enjoy the pain and suffer what are comming with the little monster.
as the Murphy´s law if you do a scratch… will be in plastic soon…
but, the model I`m working is based in a set of 9 plans and based in a german book showing pics of all the assembling process ( to avoid mistakes ) then the pics are of the real Dora and if you compare the model in plastic against the showed in pics there are many differences.
the best reference book to do the dora is:
deutsche eisenbahngeschutze artillerie auf shienen ( artillerie over rails ) from Gerhard Taube
there are really many pics of the assembling process Amazing.
now i start the projects Wilhelm or K3 and the project Langer Max at 1/35 shure.
this year i think will advance my Dora until almost finished stage.
but this year was depressed for the news about the plastic model but doing others projects i back to the life and still doing my “Models on rails”
Panzer67,
Is that a Schwerer Bruno that you are also building?
Mark
there are the Bruno´s family
theodore Bruno ( at the pics almost finished
Kurze Bruno
Schwere Bruno
Lange Bruno
this month will finish or almost finished the kurze Bruno and the Theodore bruno
my target is a collection of all the german railguns…will finish until 2008.
I have a serial project to do the german locomotives used in wwii,ihave 7 and inspired to continued.
You are doing a heck of a job Panzer67 [tup]
The theodore Bruno was always one of my favorites. Make sure you post pics when it is done.
Mark