Check it out scroll down this link:
http://home.sprynet.com/~frfrog/miscelld.htm
IT IS THE BIGGEST OF THEM ALL[:-,][:-,][:-,]
wonder if trumpeter has noticed thisone , lets say 300$ kit???
there was a model of one in a Verlinden magazine years ago
Yeah I would be willing to bet that that one would not only light’n your wallet but would deffinatly take a reenforced shelf all by itself. But it would deffinatly be something I would want on my display self especially what with me being an Artilleryman myself.
I would like to biuld one, in case you don’t know, its the “Dora” a german gun from WWll ( its not gustav ) , in 1/35 it will be 1.22 meters long, 20 centimeters wide and 33 centimeters tall, thats 48" long, 7.8" wide and 13" tall.
Ohh boy thats alot of metal. SORRY i’ve just read the entire article and he does mention the name dora my mistake
WHOAAHH!
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Keep well.
That must have hurt!
I’d hate to be on the business end of that thing! Must have cracked and shattered some glass every shot. Serious earmuffs where probably needed!
I have been doing some reading and what I’ve found so far is that Dora fired 47 rounds during the siege of Sevastopol, however this is not confirmed. In the books that I have read they keep mixing Gustav and Dora, ( much like I did in my first reply [D)] ) so its hard to say how many rounds each gun fired.
The Dora/Gustav was 5 stories tall! The range was 29 miles and had a crew of 250 for assembly and firing…and had 4,120 total crew. (oops!) The shell weighed 10,500lb, was 25 feet long and the rate of fire was 2 rounds per hour. ( ooops! )
Dora’s rate of fire was more like one round every 19-45 minutes, not every 30 seconds! The total number of support personel came to about 3870 men. The armor-tipped shell was much heavier than the HE, weighing in at 7.1 tons.
Thanks Peridexion, I flubbed those royally!
Dan
Just imagine the size of that thing!!!
Thats OK Dan, I have become quite familar with the taste of my own shoe sometimes. Here is a photo of one of the shells.
If there were a kit, I would have to take a stab at it.
Of course, it would take several months worth of modelling money to afford the kit.
I seen the Verlinden book that featured the scratch built Dora. That would would be one awesome model to build.
mark956
I was looking for a project currently going on in the US about firing a projectile into orbit, but I was not able to find it.
However, I did find that Iraq had built a “small” one:
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/babongun.htm
Here’s the link to a 1/35 scale Dora.
http://www.aopt91.dsl.pipex.com/railgun/Content/Models/HO_1.35/doramodel.htm
The link I had for the Dora seems to be dead now. If I remember right it took 7 or 8 shots to take out the munition dump under the bay in Sevastopol and I think the rate of fire was closer to one shot per hour. I’m taking all this from memory though and could be totally off knowing my memory. Any way you look at it though it is one impressive gun. That 35th scale model is one impressive piece too.
Eric
The stats I got were taken from Squadron’s German Railroad Guns in Action, for what that is worth.
There was another thread about this not too long ago. Maybe if we make a poll or something, get enough results, we can send it off to Tamiya or Trumpeter (prob Trump) for consideration 
I’d personally LOVE to have a Dora on my desk (hehe, I need to get a new desk anyways)