Moser Karl Geraet Initial Version on Railway Carrier for $60!!!!

This kit usually costs $80-$100 in Bangkok, depending on where you buy it - hobby shops or dept stores. But I got mine last week for just over $60 and now my modeler is working on it. Prior to this one, he's built the Leopold, the Morser Karl-Gerat (late version) on railway carrier and the BR-52. This is the color he used for the railroad bed rocks :

Anyway, some say that it's safe to paint them all black, except for the upper side of the rails which should be silver grey.

If you want to see the Leopold or the others I mentioned, try locating them from this menu :

http://www.geocities.com/~falconbbs/modelcnt.htm

Hey, welcome to the forum. Glad you're no longer lurking, and decided to post. You can google imagles of railroads. I think it all depends on the country or region of where the railway beds were built, and what materials were available.

Try to post some pics. I'll be building this beast in a few months as well, and so far I've only seen one built up example.

Thanks!

Well, I've decided to go for a less dark color bedrock for my Karl railroad bed.

I'll lay off the black and dark grey and probably go with mostly a wash of light grey, tan, flat earth and even desert yellow and flesh to see how it turns out. I know each region and country are different but of all the pictures I've seen and from riding trains in China, most of the rocks in rock bed are a much lighter tannish and greyish color rather than dark grey or black. Some of the pics I've seen of Leo and KArl had the bed rock almost coal black! I don't think trains ride on coals.

As for the wooden sleepers, I think I will go for a faded grey look. From observing wood that's placed outside for awhile. After standing in weather for awhile, they usually fade from a natural wood color to a greyish colorso that's probably what i will do.

the Rails themselves will be mostly gunmetal + black and a little of red brown on the side. Not too heavily rusted and with metallic grey and silver up top because of the fact that trains keep on running over them. I'll see how it goes. Hopefully it will turn out good. I will try to see if I can get some pics up here after it's done but I won't start painting the bed till I'm finished with the Karl and the railway carriers.

Ohh Zo. I can give you some pointers on the assembling of the kit. There isn't too much traps in the Kit. I don't know if you bought the initial version or the production version. But some of the rules aply except the running gear. You don't have to worry about traps but there are a few areas where you have to be ultra careful....Unless you like the idea of searching extra small parts on the floor or making a mess of the small parts hehe......

Well, I have some color pics of the 600mm shells on my site. It's a full metal shell! :

any actual war footage or color drawings of the real thing? Your pic is great and gave some ideas but I want some real pics just to make sure. It's ok if you can't find any. I'm pretty sure color pics of the real thing is hard to come by.

P.S. That looks like the Dragon Kit. The shell kinda sucks because of the lack of details. That's why I'm looking for some pics or drawings of the real thing because the Trump version is excellent!.