Looks impressive, part of a 1946 series, too. Be a bit more than one metre long when finished
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Yikes. Monstrous.
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Need a new wing of the house built to store that thing !
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When do we get the Dora mounted on Tiger IIâs?
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Iâd need a new job to pay for the house to put it in - after the divorce and loss of my existing house! Assuming I donât just end up buried in the garden, with the stash getting sold offâŚ
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Hah, at first I read that part as
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So this was actually something proposed and put down on paper?
What I do know is I wonât be able to afford it.
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Most likely way out of my price range but will be looking forward to seeing it built at some show in the near future because someone is going to buy and build it.
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Yeah, the guy is designing the addition to his house as we speak.
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Given that this is under the Drami name and not Zimi, it will invariably be the Dragon King Tiger hulls with the Dragon Leopold superstructure and a few new parts for the connections between the two. So while itâs new, itâs not really new since the Dragon Leopold is 23 years old and the King Tiger is 20.
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Meh. It is only an 11 inch gun. I want to see the version mounting an 18 inch gun from Yamato.
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If youâre going to display it, youâll have to get rid of your 1/350 scale Yamato model, for the shelf space
Edro
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Absolute nonsense! There is no indication of such a monster. I found an article of a modeller, where he states that the gun would have mounted on E75 hulls and the gun barrel and the âhullâ would be made shorter.
https://www.world-in-scale.de/gallery/1946-what-if/1-35-1946-28cm-kanone-on-e-75-lastentr%C3%A4ger-by-trumpeter/
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Tank Encyclopedia has a relatively short article on this group of weapons, including a list of references for further reading.
Looks like Iâll have to wait a little bit longer for a US MBT-70 then; but I donât mind this sort of stuff coming out from manufacturers - it shows that somewhere, their marketing departments have some energy and initiative - even if it doesnât tie-in with my personal likes, and I suspect this will float someoneâs boat.
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Panzer Concepts (RIP) once hinted at the possibility of 3D-printed conversion parts to make this beast from two Tiger II and one Leopold.
I even went ahead and bought a second Leopold gun in anticipation of that conversion which then never materialised âŚ
Luckily I didnât buy two extra Tiger II kits âŚ
Quote from that article:
âNazi Germany is remembered, among other things, for hideously impractical, ludicrous âwonder weapons.â The idea of making railway guns mobile by sticking multiple tanks together is probably one of the weirdest. In the end even the Nazis had enough sense to see that these designs were hopelessly impractical.â
Indeed âŚ
coming up with a fancy project to capture Herr Hitlers attention was a way to keep the engineers and researchers from being sent to the front as soldiers âŚ
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Not a primary source, but Walter Spielbergerâs Der Panzer-Kampfwagen Tiger und seine Abarten contains this passage and illustration:â
Though the illustration is by Hilary Doyle from 1976, so almost certainly an artistâs impression.
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Any sort of camber would be a real problem for this rig! High centre of gravity wouldnât take well to sideways tippingâŚ
Now, now,
donât you go all out practical and dry as dust engineer on us
and ruin all the fun
Donât forget the recoil âŚ