Build it from scratch last year and would like to finish it but there are some 60 figures to do which annoys me to say the least…!
But I think a few pics are worth to post…unfortunately I am allowed only five of#em
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Welcome aboard Frank. Interesting diorama.
Best of luck on the figures.
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Wow! That is one hell of a model! Fantastic!
Always a fan of the Flak Towers, not least when I tracked down this book; the design, the evolution and execution of the things just blew me away.
Picture of book below for those fans of the same who may be unaware:
Well done again Frank.
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Wow- that is a hugely imposing piece of work Frank- should look a real treat with some figures on it as it will give it an even greater sense of scale. How did you go about building it?
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-constructed it from MDF, which means the whole thing is quiet sturdy and wheighs around 20 kg
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Now that is interesting; I have seen a photograph of one of the Towers in a camouflage-painted finish in a book somewhere; it definitely showed a disruptive scheme - it may have been the Zoo one, but I always wondered what the colours were.
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That tower is way super cool. A few months back, Wade (Armor_Buff) posted pictures of a wood flak tower he built, leading to a discussion of flak towers in general. That is when I learned about the massive, concrete towers like the one you built. I have wanted to build some form of flak tower ever since.
So much could be done with a structure like that. It would be fun to add something like a local delivery truck dropping off milk.
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I’ve started working on the figures which means some are stock items others need to be build or at least “modified”. I can provide some photos later today…
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Great work, Frank. What are you going to do with the model after finishing it ? In that scale it’s quite a large object.
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wow … now that that is an impressive bit of engineering … and its massive !!! Looks like loads of great detailing already on it, and once some figures turn up for manning the guns, it will look superb… And of course … Welcome to the forums Frank. You are only able to upload 5 images at a time as you are a new member, once you have posted more and replied to other topics, your trust level increases and you will be able to post more images in one go etc,
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Amazing build, and quite large indeed. Looks really good.
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Very impressive, good luck with the figures, look forward to seeing it done.
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Many thanks for the warm welcome guys. What am I gonna do with that “thing”. I want to build the ZOO Tower also. Since their is a shop in Leiden (Netherlands) that do the upper part of the Zoo tower with the Panzerkuppeln of the Munitionsaufzüge in all detail and then compairing the two Towers…
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This is something I’ve always wanted to do but a) Didn’t have the resources at the time, and b) probably still haven’t the engineering/modelling skills.
This promises to be awesome!
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That’s one hell of a way to introduce yourself …
Nice job … beautiful build
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A vehicle running on rationed fuel that’s very scarce anyway, dropping off a rationed substance that’s likely to be very scarce in the middle of a major city in the middle of a war? 
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Those young boys manning the guns have got to have their milk or they won’t grow into big boys.
If anything I would have thought the Flak crews would take a certain priority(!)
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Whatever. I was trying to help.
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What an impressive build! I can only imagine what it’s going to be like with figures.
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