I’ve recently moved from a 2700 sq ft home to a 1700 sq ft home. Needless to say, I’ve lost a lot of my modelling space. I no longer have room for the Ratte and it’s being released from the “Shelf of Doom” to the bin.
It was a long and enjoyable process. A lot of folks helped with ideas, information, parts, motivation and applause. I truly hate to see it go, but I just don’t have the room; not at nearly a yard/meter long. The turret will remain though. It needs some repairs and some updates/tweaks. It’ll probably get a somewhat “naval” paint job in the future.
Anyhow, to those that know, thank you so much for ALL of your incredible support.
Is there a model club that it could be donated too? Scouts? Or would there be interest in buying it on a local sales page or eBay? Seems a shame to bin it.
It was definitely fascinating to watch it take shape. A grand plan for a monster of a model. It really sucks when real life destroys modeling. Great work Mike.
I have debated this for the last couple of months. It won’t even fit on my current bench.
The new modelling room is roughly the same size as my old room, but having lost about 1000 sq ft of house, other things are also in that room. Gawd, it’s even carpeted!! Dang carpet monster is just aching for me to drop something important!
I did a Bing search for the build so I could post this there, but all that came up were a couple of pictures of the turret that linked to a page that shows “File not found.”
The efforts of some of the Kit Maker members (absolutely incredible things they did! [you know who you are]) did for the turret build made me ensure that it is kept, repaired and truly finished.
I will post a new topic in Armorama, or should it be Model Shipwrights, of the turret as it is right now and that’ll be the new beginning of for the turret.
With sadness,
Mike
p.s. The really BIG paint booth I built has had it too. The motor is finally “grinding” somewhat even after regularly cleaning the innards and always using a filter. I now have one of those smaller, foldable paint booths. Yeesh, they are tiny!
Remember the ModelCollect 1:72nd Ratte? I believe it is now history, but you may recall what they did with their turret… Austrått Fort coastal artillery site triple 28cm turret Caesar – ModelCollect
Please note that the turret there has an extra layer of armour as being in a fixed location weight wasn’t an issue.
Dang, sorry to hear that about your project Mike. I saw your name over on the Railroad Modeling page and got to wondering about your Landkreuzer, so I went searching and found this post. I really hope that you will be able to keep it and continue on with it as the work you have done so far is awesome.
Thanks Randy, it’s still in my shop propped up in a corner out of the way. LOL, the wife suggested its current place, so there it is. I still have all the MAUS and Colien turrets.
