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                        Who dares to manufacture, scratchbuild this one?

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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Who dares to manufacture, scratchbuild this one?
                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, March 28, 2004 9:03 AM
                        Check it out scroll down this link:

                        http://home.sprynet.com/~frfrog/miscelld.htm

                        IT IS THE BIGGEST OF THEM ALLMischief [:-,]Mischief [:-,]Mischief [:-,]

                        wonder if trumpeter has noticed thisone , lets say 300$ kit???
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, March 28, 2004 9:32 AM
                        there was a model of one in a Verlinden magazine years ago
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, March 28, 2004 9:36 AM
                        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.
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, March 28, 2004 9:41 AM
                        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
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, March 28, 2004 9:56 AM
                        WHOAAHH!
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, March 28, 2004 10:22 AM
                        Sign - Ditto [#ditto]

                        Keep well.
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                        djmodels1999
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                          December 2002
                        • From: United Kingdom / Belgium
                        Posted by djmodels1999 on Sunday, March 28, 2004 12:13 PM
                        That must have hurt!
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, March 28, 2004 12:19 PM
                        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!
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, March 28, 2004 12:32 PM
                        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 Dunce [D)] ) so its hard to say how many rounds each gun fired.
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                        Buddho
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                          March 2003
                        • From: Newport News VA
                        Posted by Buddho on Sunday, March 28, 2004 4:00 PM
                        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! )

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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, March 28, 2004 5:17 PM
                        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.
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                        Buddho
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                          March 2003
                        • From: Newport News VA
                        Posted by Buddho on Sunday, March 28, 2004 5:37 PM
                        Thanks Peridexion, I flubbed those royally!

                        Dan

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                        Dwight Ta-ala
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                          July 2003
                        • From: Philippines
                        Posted by Dwight Ta-ala on Sunday, March 28, 2004 5:37 PM
                        Just imagine the size of that thing!!!

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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, March 28, 2004 8:07 PM
                        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.


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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, March 28, 2004 8:10 PM
                        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.
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                        mark956
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                          February 2003
                        • From: USA
                        Posted by mark956 on Sunday, March 28, 2004 8:49 PM
                        I seen the Verlinden book that featured the scratch built Dora. That would would be one awesome model to build.
                        mark956
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, March 28, 2004 8:53 PM
                        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

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                        erush
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                          May 2003
                        • From: USA, GA
                        Posted by erush on Sunday, March 28, 2004 9:15 PM
                        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
                        Hi, I'm Eric and I'm a Modelholic too. I think I have PE poisioning. "Friendly fire...isn't"
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, March 28, 2004 9:22 PM
                        The stats I got were taken from Squadron's German Railroad Guns in Action, for what that is worth.
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                        zokissima
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                          July 2003
                        • From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
                        Posted by zokissima on Monday, March 29, 2004 9:58 AM
                        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)
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 29, 2004 11:11 AM
                        You can count me in zokissima. I have just tried to mail Fritz swanson from the link that erush provided but it didn' t work.
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 29, 2004 11:34 AM
                        Peridexion was that photo taken at the Imperial war musium London?
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                        subfixer
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                          March 2004
                        • From: Spartanburg, SC
                        Posted by subfixer on Monday, March 29, 2004 11:47 AM
                        What about the "Little David" mentioned below the picture? I've seen a picture of it taken at Aberdeen proving grounds. It would make a nice little diorama.

                        I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 29, 2004 12:44 PM
                        Yes it was.
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 29, 2004 7:15 PM
                        Hey guys, found another link in german language
                        well if you dont speak german enjoy the pics.

                        http://www.e94114.de/Eisenbahngeschuetze/eisenbahngeschuetze01.htm

                        Subfixer, where can I find pics of "little david" sounds interesting?

                        erush thanks for the link. I guess someone dared to scratch build it.

                        Well, in the first link I gave, it says that "Gustav" was used to suppress the rebelion in the Warsaw ghetho. I've heard many stories about the braveries of the Jews that were on other "end" of the cannon. If memmory serves me right I actually heard one story from an elderly woman that survived the uprising. one of a few...

                        So remmember guys we love it in styrene but I would give it all away if these war machines will not be built anymore. dont you?
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