Several years ago, I bought the following kit on Amazon. I was jealous of any modeler who was able to afford/get the HUGE 1/35 and 1/72 scale Dora railway gun kits that I had to have my own Dora railway gun kit. But all I could afford at the time was the smaller 1/144 scale kit. Does anybody know if there are any aftermarket detail sets for this kit? Anything like photoetch or resin or 3D parts to upgrade this model?
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I’m too lazy to look it up and do the math…how big is this monster even at 1/144?
@Schmidty13
About the only picture I have to compare it to anything is this one. All the Dora gun parts/sprues laid out next to a 1/35 scale M1 tank chassis in the middle.
LOL. Wow…OK, I gotta go look up the measurements on the original
Wikipedia says it was 155+ feet long. So a little over a foot long at 1/144.
But wow…you said there are 1/35 kits out there? That would be almost 4 1/2 feet long! That might be a lifetime project for a foot-dragger like me!
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Not seeing any aftermarket details just yet but I’ve only done a preliminary search @WhatIfRebel . You chose the same scale I’d build it in if I were to take this bad boy on though. The other two are truly dedicated projects and I can’t imagine trying to take either one of those on.
Looking forward to seeing what you’ll do with this one.
Let’s put the 1/144, 1/72, and 1/35 scales in perspective. Look at the following pictures.
First picture I found on Ebay of a 1/144 scale Dora. Ruler seems to be in centimeters.
Second pic below is a 1/72 scale (?) Dora model from a contest I went to back in 2011.
Third picture below is a 1/35 scale Dora model at a contest I went to back in 2018. I’m guessing the table it is sitting on is one of those 8 foot long banquet tables.
Fourth pic below is all the parts/sprues from a 1/35 scale Dora laid out on the living room floor from a video I saw on Youtube. 
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@mustang1989
To be honest, I’m not going to build the 1/144 Dora straight from the box. But I am going to use parts from the kit for a future what if kitbash/scratch built project. Ever hear of the German WW2 Landkreuzer P1500? It was proposal for a very large tracked mobile artillery gun based on the German Dora railway gun. Very little information exists about the P1500 and there are no official German diagrams/blueprints of the P1500. But I’m going to base my build off of the canceled 1/144 scale P1500 that TAKOM was supposed to make and come out with, but didn’t.
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