"The biggest model you've built?" Topic

Do you like to made huge models?
For example these one with Mr. Przemo Mrożek from Poland.

How many time to made those kind of monsters?.

Amicalement
Armand

A bloke on a bike forum I frequent is building a 1:6 scale Panther.

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Where do you store those things? Even out here where I have 40 acres to roam I would be hard-pressed to find a suitable spot to harbor one of those things.

Never anything that big. I'm an armor modeler already, and I can't conceive of wanting something like that in 1/35 scale (which is what that model is). Zvezda recently released a 1/350 scale HMS Dreadnought for a reasonable sum of $100 that I'm thinking about, but that is about the limit I'd go…

Damon.

I am often tempted to go down the massive monster/vehicle route in WFB and 40K but them am pulled back at the last minute by the realization that table and storage space would be a problem.

Try this:

It ain't me, but the builder is a fellow I've met at local shops.

Here's his site:

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Largest model I've built would have to be an Imperial Guard Valkyrie. I really want a baneblade though, but like Pictors Studio, I have no idea where I'd put it. Or how long it would take my to even paint the beast. The Valk at least I can pull the wings off and store it in the box it came in.

Wolfprophet, if you have an airbrush a Baneblade is very simple and fast to paint. I painted mine (conversion to iron Warriors CSM vehicle) over the course of 2 evenings…and most of that was setup/teardown, and waiting for paint to dry.

Damon.

The LoTR Mumakil.

Largest I ever built was a four foot long, remote control, model of the Yamato. Weighed a ton when it had the ballast put in…

Mick

"if you have an airbrush a Baneblade is very simple and fast to paint."

I do not. Lol. would have to do every bit by hand. Hell, that's why it's year later and I've yet to find my way back to finishing the Valkyrie.

Wolfprophet,

Testor's makes some military standard spray paints. It's the next best thing for covering a large model with at least the base coat. You just have to drybrush yer way up from there…

The biggest I've made is a starship that a bit over 2 feet long. I've an even larger "generic" coastal defense ironclad under construction at the moment, a sort of ongoing work in progress…

So many models, so little time….

Leland R. Erickson

I think my biggest was a scratch built 1:100 scale model of a Leander class frigate converted into a Sea Dart capable air defence frigate (this was to illustrate the results of a conversion exercise whilst at the RNEC at Manadon, amny years ago)

USS Enterprise

Nothing very large for WWII.

In the alternative universe, it was an Armorcast Ork Gargant for Warhammer 40K. I'm not sure if it counts as a "model" per se, or a "miniature". Either way, it was pretty big, and I did paint the thing myself by hand.

I ended up selling it on eBay.

I tried to build a 1/72 Illya Murometz. That's one of those Great War Russian bombers with 4 engines, 38 machine guns, and a bowling alley and swimming pool in the fuselage.
I actually thought I could play Blue Max with it! I gave up when I found that I did not have a box big enough to store the finished model in.

Biggest I've made would be a 1/72 Superfortress, with a very large wingspan! No space for anything bigger. I do have a 1/16 kubelwagen kit in the stash though.

Cutty Sark.

Built it over some years before I went into the military. Don't remember the scale, but I remember it was about three feet long. Rigged out and everything. Baby brother knocked it off the shelf while I was home on leave. About a gazillion pieces all over the floor. If I was not a Marine at the time, I would've cried.

Retired. Think I'll cry now. Thanks for reminding me.

I built the 1/96 scale Revell model kit of the Apollo/Saturn V booster. It stood almost four feet tall when done. It's still standing in a storage room in my parents' house (unless there is something they haven't told me yet}.

I built the Cutty Sark, too. It fell once, but only broke a couple of yardarms. I think all the rigging helped keep things in place. One of these days I'll have to glue them back together, if I can find out where it is now.

The roughly 1/80 Fletcher class DD from Lindberg. I remember it being HUGE, but I was a lot younger then.

Rob

Dont remember the scale. It was an Avro Vulcan with about a 30inch wingspan from a vacuform kit. After I finished it I could not figure out what to do with it and dumped it. Enjoyed building it but not very practical.

Where do you store those things?

Ahh, see, the trick for people that build stuff like this is really simple.
You just don't think about that.

For me it would be a 1/72 scale WW2 german sub if you're going with just models.
Otherwise it would be the huge starship interior I built for gaming on, though that could easily be argued as terrain. Or the giant carrier starship I built for the 1/144-ish starfighter game we play.

Big stuff is fun!

There is a group in the SF bay area who drive around 1/6 scale armored vehicles…ie tanks. They engage in actions on a field battlefield.

Link from Google search:
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Manufacture info:
mark-1-tank.co.uk

M aka WR

1/1 target drones (BQM-34 and BQM-74), but that was as a job, even though it was fun doing it. We got them in crates, and assembled them. We did rebuild one from a salvaged fuel tank (the part with a serial number – all the rest was cannibalized parts).

A 1/35 scaled-down,Scratch-built, LCT, for a D-Day game at Salute,
About 3 ft long. Quite a sight full of Shermans!

John

A 1/35 scaled-down, LCT, for a D-Day game at Salute,
About 3 ft long. Quite a sight full of Shermans!

John

Me, nothing much biggest probably a Lancaster I guess.

I think these guys must take the biscuit for sheer modelling lunacy vonabt.co.uk/index.htm check out the 1/6th scale Dora!

Katzbalger: I built that ship as well when I was in high school. The U.S.S. Melvin (IIRC)the Blue Devil.

A radio controlled Leander class frigate.

In 'proper' modelling scales (1/72nd and 1/35th) then various ludicrously big aircraft. Biggest tank (not strictly a model) was my Action Man 1/6th scale Scorpion.

1-24th Airfix Stuka--Saw one when I was really small and wanted it--Now I'm big bought it and made it! On my shelf now!!!!

Although I have seen a link on TMP where some bloke made a 1/6(??) Dora to scale!!

1/350 ships is where I draw the line. I've got one of the Dragon Ohios and a Typhoon, as well as the I400 subcarrier.

Although I guess the 1/48 Osprey is about the same size as the I400…