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@model-nerd: I don't want to even KNOW what those beasts cost... excellent work though!
This beast:
Not one, but TWO studio scale (6 ft.) Galacticas. 3000 (+ -) parts, and no instruction manual (just reference photos).
- Mark
Wow! that Dora is a massive kit!
Bronto
OMG!!! I WANT!!!!!! *drools*
snow + 4wd + escessive hp = :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7egUIS70YM
probably trumpeters 1/350 scale hood which happened to be my 1st ever model lol. entirely handpainted and only a knife and poly cement used
Are You Kiddeing Me!?!?
I thought that Leopold was the largest model out there. They come BIGGER?
Red, White, and YOU! group build of 2010
hutchdh
Ok above is the Leopold box with a 1/35 Tiger I. I was finally able to get home to get into the trailer and take a pic of the Dora box. Here is the Dora box with the Leopold one for comparison.
philo426 Yes! I hear the Trumpeter version is even more complex than the Dragon version!
Yes! I hear the Trumpeter version is even more complex than the Dragon version!
YE GODS!!
philo426 You must mean this monster!
You must mean this monster!
Actually, I have the Trumpeter rendition. Yes, I wish there were a classified section on the forum...I would let it go for a fair price, but shipping would probably be pricey.
Hutch
On the Bench: 1:48 HobbyBoss Ta152-C; 1:48 & 1:72 Hasegawa F-104G NATO Bavaria
In queue: 1:48 Academy F-4B & a TBD Eric Hartmann bird
Recently completed: 1:32 Trumpeter P-51B
Yes, I, too love a good model that you can cram full of detail ( that's probably why I love emergency vehicles in 1/25 scale. Most are nothing more than rolling equipment racks, so detail oprotunities are plenty)
Details, you can't have enough of them.
Terry 34 built the t-34... and did a beast job of it. I have the /76 varient. IT needs correcting, but it is so impressive... I love it. :) anything 1/16th is awesome
Man, that's one BIG model. I'd love to have one to keep me occupied during the summer, and on the weekends, but I can't afford it. However, if someone is willing to donate it for free, then I may accept
How come we havn't seen one of these monsters in the FSM as a review (or an article) yet? Mabe the review can be a feature story, kind of like that 1/16 scale T-34 some time back in 2003 or so
hutchdh I have a 1:35 Leopold Railway gun. Scares the heck out of me....sorry I bought it. I will look to offload it at a show or Craigslist, as it is too big for me to safely mail out on ebay......
I have a 1:35 Leopold Railway gun. Scares the heck out of me....sorry I bought it. I will look to offload it at a show or Craigslist, as it is too big for me to safely mail out on ebay......
Hmmm... if you really don't want it...
We really needs a classifieds section on the forums.
philo426 I guess the kit cost 700 bucks!
I guess the kit cost 700 bucks!
Yeah, for the price of the kit it was a bit of a disappointment - incorrect barrel, and no decals included.
Yes I heard about the Dora!There is a guy on the FSM Armor Forum who built one and I guess the kit cost 700 bucks!The thing is massive but it didn't seem to take him very long to get it together!
if you don't I'll take it off your hands... :P
For a plastic model, not counting aftermarket or scratchbuilt parts, i would have to say the Soar Art 1/35 Dora railway gun has to be the most complex kit - with close to 3000 parts! The box for the kit weighs about 50 lbs or so. I will build it eventually (really, I will).
I built Dragon's "Easy Eight" sherman. T-80 tracks, 80 links per side, 2 parts each, and each link had a decent mold seam. Lots of scraping going on. it was fun, but if I'm going to do individual link tracks, They'd better be 1-piece. it was a fun kit, but very hard.
I wonder if a distinction should be made between self-imposed complexity(addition of aftermarket resin and photoetch detail sets) and intrinsic complexity due to parts count and assembly sequence/breakdown?What say you?
For pure parts count, probably the Trumpeter Karl Morser with railway carriers, but honestly, it wasn't very 'complex' in the sense that it was a beautifully engineered kit, and went together without a hitch.
Some kits that I have made, and that are still in the stash with every imaginable AM part that I could find for it, ugh, I dread to think the parts count, but I salivate at the joyous time of building it all.
I'm currently building the Heller/ Imai 1/100 scale HMS Victory.
I don't know the number of parts, but there are 104 guns, each has seven parts.
Hi, Well,not to brag, just state facts. 4,785 partsIn the hull and over 2,000 in the upperworks. The model? A seven foot model of the EDGEWATER PRINCESS.This was commissioned in 1979 ,finished in DECEMBER of 82. Each and every part was created from scratch.I just hope she still survives.That was the hardest thing I ever had to build ,much less part with.She was a model of one of the conjectural "luxury"sternwheel steamers on the MISSISSIPPI in 1864. The only other one I can think of is a 4 foot long 92' COAST GUARD CUTTER built from the keelup for a client company to give as a retirement gift to their director of operations.I DID NOT count the parts on that one(I didn,t want to know! ) TANKERBUILDER P.S. I had to on the steamer to get paid at each stage of construction!!
My kit didn't include the fighters but other versions do!I got my kit for 12 bucks at my LHS a few years ago! I think Squadron my have them!
stcat For a boxed model set, not counting aftermarket add-on's, what is the most complex model you ever built, from the point of view of number of parts on the trees?
For a boxed model set, not counting aftermarket add-on's, what is the most complex model you ever built, from the point of view of number of parts on the trees?
While I don't have one the Fine Molds Millennium Falcon has over 900 pieces.
The Soviet TB-3! Where did you get it? (I've been looking for one for a while.) Did it include the I-16 fighters and their trapeese rigs?
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