A WIP Takom 1/35 scale Flak40 Zwilling

Karl Logan.. Latest update.. Look anything like you remember from seeing the real one?I am tweaking and correcting as I go..

Claude

Claude, thank you for your kind and flattering words. I don't really think of myself as worthy fo mention in the company of great innovators like Shep Paine, but it's nice to know that you hold my Art in high esteem. Thank you!

I'll chime in here if I have any suggestions.

Thanks to all for the kind words. I have been wanting to build this tower since discovering it existed in Medal of Honor Airborne all those years ago! I realized early on that I would not be able to model the entire tower as at 54 M tall and 43M across , it would be over 5'5" tall and just over 4' across. So.. I am modeling a 1/4 section of it. I believe that if I can manage to get the edges to a perfect 90 degrees, that Front surface mirrors should help create the illusion of the full rooftop. I'll be posting progress pics in the Diorama forum.

     On a personal note, Karl  Logan, I have greatly admired your fantastic work in FSM over the years. Guys like you, Bob Letterman, the late greats Shep Paine, and recently (sadly) Dan Jayne , provide the inspiration for me to attempt this project. You guys are in a class all to yourselves. Thanks for the encouragement and I would welcome any criticisms you might have. regards, Claude

The model came out great. Really excited to see how the base comes out.

Robert

Really a nice model and a nice presentation of it. My god, I can't believe that you're going to try to build one of those towers. I've been to that one you have shown in the photo, and it's absolutely massive. They tried to demolish them after the war and simply couldn't do it. I can't beleive you're going to actually attempt to build it in scale. I think that even a much smaller, fragmented piece of it would be smarter, modeling-wise, as the sheer scale of the whole piece as you're trying to do it will certainly detract from the guns themselves.

Good luck with it.

Good work so far....boy is this going to be a diorama!

The figure looks great. I'm liking where this is going. Keep it coming.

The insanity begins. Started fabricating the tower..

Figures are my Waterloo.. The top pic is the latest re edit.. must have painted this one 3 times.. Lower is the previous result..

WOW!!!  I had no idea those guns were THAT BIG?!?!?!! Thats really something....

 Rudy

This is the Augarten Vienna Tower. The towers were in pairs. One tower was the L tower which Send range finding and targeting data via electric cables to the nearby G Tower ( or gun tower)

Awesome model, great detail work! Very impressive, and a overlooked subject that is twice as cool to see.

Rudy

tigerman

It would look even cooler if you could add some figures to add contrast to the size of the guns

 I have a set of German Artillerymen I intend to add. I intend to enter this in a contest as a set piece first, then i will add figures and make it a dio for a future contest.

It would look even cooler if you could add some figures to add contrast to the size of the guns

Claude,

Beautiful job!! You have brought that model to life. Great detail and shading. I can't wait to be able to build like this one day. Again, great job

Hunter

WOW, can't believe i missed this and didn't even now a kit of it existed. It definatly needs the suggestion of the tower, but the full towqer top would be huge, but very impressive. Look forward to the end results.

The Flak towers were designedt by Friederich Tamms under Hitlers express direction after a 1940 RAF bombing. There were towers in Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna. Most of them are still standing. I want to build a model of the Augarten Vienna Tower. It had 4 of these twin 128mm mounts and was ringed by 8 Flakvierling 20mm mounts.

Yes, some sort of base that suggests a flak tower. I've read very little about them except for Berlin. Weren't they located at the zoo among other places?

Claude well done on a really cool subject, nice clean build and paint work. 

Terry

  Thanks, I have to add the gun troughs, but they had horrible iejector pins in them so I ended up lining them with plastic. I ordered some brass 12.8Cm shells from Poland. When they come in, i will add the troughs and call it done.. I had originally wanted to built it on a flak tower till I realized at 1/35th scale, it would be taller than my wife!.. So i may just do the tower top, If i can convince myself to go through this 3 more timees.. It was a good kit, but it was a rough go..  thanks for the kind words..

Claude

Can't believe nobody has responded to this. It's looking really good so far. How much more do you have to do?