Getting silly... ;) The BIG kit!

[Ian M]

Scot build the 1/35 there are photos in a thread somewhere on here...
I like big guns and could be tempted but space is at a premium here so maybe I'll just enjoy your one.

[Mr Bowcat]

I'm not sure I could keep my mojo going on a big build like this. My Bradley took about 3 months and started to drag towards the end of the build.

[Guest]

So that's the 1/72?
Wow, I know people get excited at this thing especially the 35th scale and I can understand regarding the physical size, thankfully the subject doesn't interest me enough to want to build one as I'd have neither the patience or storage space.
The Germans though have always had an obsession with bigger regarding munitions and armour, when they were focused on the gun and armour of the Tiger allied forces were more focused on speed and armour and greater numbers, (the necessity to transport said vehicles overseas played a part too).
But if you look at many of the never realised designs you'll see, such as the P1000 Ratte now that is one kit I'd be tempted to build in 35th to display next to a panther or similar.

[Guest]

But if you look at many of the never realised designs you'll see, such as the P1000 Ratte now that is one kit I'd be tempted to build in 35th to display next to a panther or similar.

I've actually begun building a 1/35 scale Landkreuzer P.1000 Ratte and was keeping it a secret, but since it's a 100% scratch build and going to take several years I can write about it because it might never be finished anyway...
The chassi is 1000mm long and it's going to take up way more space than the 1/72 Dora/Schwerer Gustav for sure.
As an engineer who's also worked with wood and metal and not just electronics I know all to well that you can't scale things as you want because of weight. It just gets too heavy early on and Hitler should've known this with the Maus - and yet he insisted on not only building the p.1000 Ratte, he also ordered the even bigger P.1500 Landkreuzer to be equipped with the same 80cm K(E) gun?!?
Building some of these monsters in scale gives you a great reference for the bonkers of all bonkers projects and I like this funny side of what is actually pretty tragic.
Just solving all the engineering hurdles would require really clever thinking and machining and that's why I want to build all of these wunderwaffen!