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Yep...that's why I posted. Rail guns are a really interesting subject to model, and someone really needs to get a larger version (1:72, maybe) in the paper modeling world.
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Well there is one in 1:25 scale.
Some years ago someone build this monster and showed it at polish forum konradus: WWW.KONRADUS.COM - FORUM MODELARZY KARTONOWYCH - [R] 80cm Dora skala1:25 karton projekt własny |
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Is that the GPM model CharlieC refers to in post #10 of this thread?
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Dora in action ... Yep, she really did exist, and was used. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uplMgB3tnXE
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The GPM model is of the Leopold, Dora's baby brother. And Dora was the first true 'bunker buster.' As the history I've read tells it, the original intent of the Dora was to negate the Maginot line. It proved to be a very effective siege engine, but largely impractical due to the effort needed to transport and assemble the monster.
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The K5E was a very different gun than the Schwerer Gustav - it was the classic long range interdiction gun. It was designed to be reasonably mobile, come into action quickly and deliver large projectiles at long range. A pair of K5s were used to considerable effect on the Anzio beachhead in 1944. This was highly unusual because railway guns were vulnerable to air attack. At Anzio the K5s operated out of a tunnel and only appeared to elevate the barrel and fire. One of the captured K5 at Aberdeen was studied to provide design ideas for the M65 Atomic Annie gun.
The Schwerer Gustav was a very specialised siege gun. It took something like 2 weeks to assemble and although it could deliver 7 ton projectiles over decent ranges it was quite inflexible. In WW2 the Germans only found a single target, Sevastapol, which had fortifications substantial enough to be worth the time and trouble of moving and assembling the 80cm gun. The Gustav/Dora would have been much more useful in WW1 to smash the Belgian and French fortifications. I agree that we need more railway gun models. WW1 was the zenith of the railway guns when hundreds of diverse types of railway guns were deployed. Regards, Charlie |
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If anyone would like to try to design a WW1 French railway gun the manual for the gun with drawings is on line at: Reglement de manoeuvre de l'artillerie. Titre V7, Description et entretien des materiels sur affut-truc a* glissement a* deux bogies et de leurs munitions / Ministiere de la guerre | Gallica.
This gun was a Schneider a glissement (sliding) mount. This used a system of wooden blocks jacked down onto auxiliary rails to absorb the recoil. Regards, Charlie |
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