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German draisine Zeppelin
caragd
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Torino, Italy
Joined: March 19, 2010
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Posted: Friday, May 28, 2010 - 09:39 AM UTC
Hi,

for all rail transport fans and not I post my first image of my last scratch project 1/35 German draisine Zeppelin built only in few exemplars using captured materials.
I used for reference Paul Malmassari's book for the drawings unfortunately there is not much documentation of this subject.
maybe is not the right place for this topic anyway I choose this one
Stay tuned more pic will follows.

Thx for looking
Dario

Gorizont
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Sachsen, Germany
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Posted: Thursday, June 03, 2010 - 08:04 AM UTC
Looks interesting so far!
Yes, I think, this is the right place - it has a gun!

greetings...
Soeren
caragd
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Torino, Italy
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Posted: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 - 04:37 AM UTC
Hi I'm back with most updates and parts built...









Here are part of the bottom not visible when fixed on rails





The below boxes...



The bumpers...



Hoping you like it any comment will welcomed.
Thanks for looking
Dario
Plasticbattle
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Donegal, Ireland
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Posted: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 - 05:53 AM UTC

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Hoping you like it any comment will welcomed.


Hi Dario. Of course we do ... its always great to see some scratchbuilt armor and especially the more obscure stuff. Never seen or heard of this rather ugly vehicle, but am interested in seeing more. Looks good so far.
caragd
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Torino, Italy
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Posted: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 - 11:08 PM UTC
I will update soon.
Thx Dario
caragd
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Torino, Italy
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Posted: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 - 04:46 AM UTC
I'm back again with some new pics of my scratch project showing the turret and gun hoping you like. At the moment no more progression I will post because shortly will be released the resin kit by an Italian company.

Thanks for looking
Dario























retiredyank
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Arkansas, United States
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Posted: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 - 10:02 AM UTC
Very interesting piece. I anguished over building an omar type railway flatbed, but finally gave up after much greif.
PedroA
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Valencia, Spain / España
Joined: December 27, 2010
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Posted: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 - 06:29 AM UTC
Good work Dario.

Your draisine is very nice. Railways are my second hobby. What plastic have you used in your model? I will follow your work with great interest.

Cheers. Pedro.
pdelsoglio
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Mendoza, Argentina
Joined: November 13, 2005
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Posted: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 - 08:52 AM UTC
Dario,

Your build seems to me like an interesting, and so far, very succesful attempt at scratchbuilding.
You have done a cool job with this very unknown vehicle.
Keep us updated with your progress.
Thanks for sharing!

A presto,

Pablo
caragd
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Torino, Italy
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Posted: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 - 11:14 PM UTC
Thanks at all for you comments.

Pedro, the colored styrene is recycled from some sheet found at work are two types, one dark brown of 1,3 mm tick on the hull and the black one of 1 mm tick on the bottom edge.
Both stick easily with the thinner and are softer than the evergreen giving easier the cut and filing.

Cheers
Dario
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Istanbul, Turkey / Türkçe
Joined: December 05, 2007
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Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 - 12:03 AM UTC
Will be very interesting vehicle....Good luck Dario....
lespauljames
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England - South West, United Kingdom
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Posted: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 09:32 AM UTC
Dario, Beautiful scrathcbuilding. please keep the updates coming!
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