1 72 scale scratch built railguns dios

[bazer]

Hi guys 

As promised the first two scratch built railguns. both were built from plans i drew from photos in books and on the net, i used the bogies from leopold kits for each gun suitably altered to match smaller bogies on these guns the rest is scratched .(You will probably notice they are a lot smaller than the Dora but that was the largest railgun in the world.🙂)

 The first one is the Schwere Bruno 28cm in service from 1936 to 1938.

Second is the Lange Bruno 28 cm built in 1937.

 

Hope you like 

P S,    I build dioramas for all my models to add scale and interest.

P P S the barrel is not bent as it is turned aluminium must be way pics been taken.

 

Lang Bruno

 

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

Beautiful work on both of these  ... Might want to go back and paint some of the Garrisons infantry weapons. Some of them look like bare grey plastic. 

[Kris B]

Both looks fantastic. Good job. 

[Jim Wasley]

Wow these are some wonderful builds,from scratch and in this small scale,you sure have the Midas touch,I enjoyed looking.Cheers.

[waylandsmithy]

Incredible, they look fantastic. An unusual but iconic subject. It's hard to believe they ever built these, and your dioramas (dioramen?) give a real sense of their enormous size. 

 

It's almost as hard to believe they're scratch built! Chapeau!

[waylandsmithy]

Ooh, with reference to the 'bent' barrels: are you using a Sony phone or camera? They create horrible distortion along the top of the image.

[BlackMax12]

Scratch built and in 1/72 scale???  Wow, I can't even see things in that scale.

 

Very impressive and now I want to see the rest, no more teasing.

 

Amazing work on the guns and the dios are no slouch either, everything just works together.

 

Take care,

 

Lloyd

[Sgt.Squarehead]

Damned right I like.....Wow! 

[Bullbasket]

Very impressive. Great builds.

 

John.

[bazer]

18 hours ago, waylandsmithy said:

Ooh, with reference to the 'bent' barrels: are you using a Sony phone or camera? They create horrible distortion along the top of the image.

Hi the camera I use is a Nikon coolpix and have never noticed a distortion on other pics.

 

Bazer

[Ozzy]

Nice collection.

[stevehnz]

Those are brilliant, all the more so for being scratch built. I've long pondered how they aimed these things figuring traverse would be very limited otherwise firing would topple them off the rails. Did engineers build a short curved spur line pointing in roughly the right direction & rely on moving the cars to adjust point of aim?

Steve.

Edited June 8, 2018 by stevehnz
trying to make sense.

[3DStewart]

I believe the apparent bending of the gun is called lens barrelling and you can see it going in the opposite direction with the edge of the diorama base. It's due to the camera lens not being optically perfect.  It may be aggravated if the camera is in macro mode.

 

Great models.

[Rob G]

The distortion is caused by wide angle lenses, and is endemic to many of them - lenses can be designed and produced to remove that, but they tend to be expensive and specialised. Try standing further back and using a longer focal length.

Nicely done with the wee guns.

[bazer]

16 hours ago, stevehnz said:

Those are brilliant, all the more so for being scratch built. I've long pondered how they aimed these things figuring traverse would be very limited otherwise firing would topple them off the rails. Did engineers build a short curved spur line pointing in roughly the right direction & rely on moving the cars to adjust point of aim?

Steve.

Thanks for all comments .

Yes they would lay tracks down on a curve in the general direction .

Bazer.