here are some pics of my Karl in progress. There are more in my gallery.

The pics are a bit small, but looked neat, keep us posted Pz-cmdr.

It is looking good so far. I like the pic showing the size of the shell in camparison to the man figure. That is one huge shell!!

animal, it is really big. it's pretty weighty as well. solid aluminum!

looks nice!very nice...but the photos are too little
I hope to see others photos, bigger...
regards

Coming along nicely Pnzr-Cmdr. Nice clean build.

For those who wish to see bigger pictures look into Pnzr-Cmdr´s Gallery.

Hey Pnzr-Cmdr: When you want to print bigger pics ..... open them and take the URL from the open picture instaed of the thumbnail...... then you should bigger pics. I think this is what happened!

plastic, that's exactly what i did. i'm gonna edit my entry and make them bigger... so all these folks will stop complaining!!

Looks like a clean build keep us posted.

Hi John ....I finished my Karl last spring ..fun kit to build ..I see you made the same mistake as I did ..(told you guys the instructions are bad in this area..lol) you have you cannon backed up in the full recoil position....You are lucky to catch it before painting ...I had to repaint parts ....Are you going to drill all those holes in the track teeth??(what a pain)

Rick

Rick,
What do you mean all the way in recoil position? Do you mean I shouldn'tve put the spring and stuff in? I can still pull it back some. An what do you mean with the tracks. I haven't really looked at them closley yet.

wow thats comeing a long nice
how do u glue all them track links together like when u go around the spocket.
cause i was going to buy this kit but thetrack linksgot me scared lol.
but anyways nice job

ps where did u buy this kit from

wow thats comeing a long nice
how do u glue all them track links together like when u go around the spocket.
cause i was going to buy this kit but thetrack linksgot me scared lol.
but anyways nice job

ps where did u buy this kit from

Tazz, I got this kit from my LHS. It was $70 even. The tracks have me a little scare too but I think I'll be aable to manage. There are stretches of about 6 that are already together then there are alot of indy's as well so it shouldn't be too difficult. There are just a lot of ejector pin makrs on the tracks.

Pnzr-Cmdr,
It looks good so far..... Mine is still in the box, haven't gotten around to it yet....sigh...sooooo many models....soooo little time!!! #:-)

Hi John ...what I meant about the recoil is that when you take the whole gun assembly and slide it into the bottom hull of the kit there is place for it to slide ...I did the same as you and pushed it as far back as it can go ..hiding the big empty space ,but in reality it should be pushed up as far forward as you can go...I have fixed it on mine and I had some pictures taken at a show yesterday as soon as he posts the pictures I post them here to explain better....As for those lousy track ...after sanding out every punch mark on each link ,I drilled a hole in each tooth like on the real one ...not too hard as the hole is circular ..If you look at my pictures on here you might see it ...not sure ...posted along time ago...but I think you can find them if you click on my name ...if not I'll try and find them ..

Rick

Rick, I'm pretty sure i know what you mean now. Here's a pic with it fixed. Tell me if it's right.

Exactly ....Phew!! Now on to those tracks ....good luck bud!(not that bad ...just long and boring )

Rick

I have just finished mine.
more on my galery

LOL you have the gun in full recoil position as well. man those DML directions are bad!

isn't it the correct position for reloading?

I'm not sure, Rick said that that's what it was like in full recoil... maybe that's how it goes for reloading....

wow that thing is huge lol.
iam geting mine from internet hobbies for 49.99 THATS RIGHT 49 BUCKS WHAT A STEAL.
BUT some of the stuff the germans had in ww2 was pretty cool,,,,
they had the best stuff

Hey John, so far so good. About how many steps are there in the assembly?

Keep us posted!

~Chip :-)

Nope !! Sorry guys I just checked thru my refrences and it is never all the way back ...I checked thru pictures in Allied &Axis #10 and Bertha's Big Brother Karl-Geraet (60cm)&(54cm) by Thomas Jentz....Maybe during transport I can't make out the picture that well.
Worst part is i had these references next me when I built it and didn't notice it..

Rick