Just finished my scratchbuilt - well mostly scratchbuilt Polish Draisine
plastic card construction and sat on a cutdown Bachmann gandy dancer
The prototype was manyfactured by Tatra with a crew of 3 and was a self propelled armoured scout vehicle It was attatched to an armoured train - the remainder of the train is currently under construction
TJ wants 4 of them, make it 6 if they really shoot!
cheated a little and used a card model i downloaded as a cutting template suitably scaled up
the originals were towed by the train if not in use as recconaisance
Cheating is wrong. LOL
Way coool! When do you start selling the resin kits?
There is already a kit available from a polish manufactorer but it seems to be out of production in 1/35
it would be an easy resin kit to make but I suspect demand would be limited to say the least
Rosebud Falls Gazette
Charter Member of the Garden Railways Associated Press Enterprises
Published by Acme Enterprises
Rosebud Falls Scenic Railways to acquire arms deal
Rosebud Falls (9 Oct 1906) On The GRAPEvine today:
During a press conference today, Mr. Douglas Flatbottom, CEO RbFSRy, announced the agreement to purchase over 100 Polish Draisine from the Foundry and Firearms Division of Davenower Limited. Mr. Flatbottom reiterated that in the past couple of years the Tangerine-Jack gang of hoodlums from The Dixie D Short Line, had done serious damage to the right of way and other properties of the RbFSRy. Mr. Flatbottom also reminded everyone of the serious and near fatal beating by this gang of ruffians suffered by local fisherman Mr. Piccolo Pete. The Dastardly Demons of the Dixie Dee were known to have started the major forest fires of last spring. The Polish Draisine’s will patrol along the main lines and sidings of the RbFSRy on constant vigil for any more such actions against the proud people of Rosebud Falls. Mr. Flatbottom declared that any further saber rattling form the Dixie Duds will result in full scale assault.
TJ, the resources of the RT&F stand ready to assist you in any way needed in order that that smart a-- upstart over there on the Left Coast be held in check! I would even support bringing Vinny and the boys out of retirement!
I don’t care what you say, it ain’t gonna stop the bad mouth and provocation til we either shut him down or buy him out! I darn well know that he’s just like those dictators from WWII, once he ate you up, I’d be next; so I’m ready to support your efforts to repulse his attacks!
Oh Lordy, here we go again. Might as well start a new thread…
Oh, but it is so much fun!!!
Sorry Mr. davenower for the apparent hijacking of your thread. Really, will you be accepting orders?
Dave, did you just resize the paper kit to G and use sheet styrene or is it something else?
In all seriousness i wouldn’t mind one of those tanks myself, it would look great running around the track at an open day or running day as we call them in this part of the world.
Rgds ian
I downloaded the pdf file with the plans http://www.cardmodels.net/forum/attachment.php?s=f4c8b43943a4a4cb9a78bf350b5b638b&attachmentid=602&d=1138787489
and resized to match the correct scale - it does mean saving the images as a screen dump then splitting and resizing but it saves a lot of working out very funny angles - Just transferred shapes to styrene then glued together with blocks of thick sheet inside to reinforce corners
not very neat on mine but it worked ok - turret was formed from a ring of styrene rolled and glued to disc - guns are wood dowel and plastic , lights are biro tube , spotlight on roof is plastic tube from accounting machine paper roll . rivets are slices of plastic (evergreen) rod glued with revell liquid cement - mark positions with pencil apply spot of glue , apply rivet. afterwards sand to flatten and round edges. Was a cheap build and runs well on gandy dancer chassis.
This site has info on details http://derela.republika.pl/drais.htm
Would love to take orders but for the work involved but its really easy to build yourself
No need to apologise - always value your contributions . If you want to defend your line - and it seems you need it have a look at the us army core of engineers manual - http://www.girr.org/girr/military_railways/military_railways.html
last sections is all about armoured trains .
Just happen to have a copy of that book. As well as several others detailing constructions plans and techniques. Could it possibly have something to do with being a retired member of the Corps of Engineers? The wife keeps threatening to toss them out, but I reminder her that they help give me ideas for the GRR, and of course she says “Well build something then!”
I have to admit to a passion for military things especially railway guns and armour - the intention is to build a full train incluing armoured loco , might even try some of the ideas in the manual such as rail lines for armour . It does make for interesting reading and understand why you wouldnt throw it out.
I would like to take this opportunity to push my long term barrow; of wanting to have a WW2 German Field Marshals train. I have the engine, in my DR Mallet and a luxury passenger coach with my Golden Mountain coach but i would like an anti aircraft gun mounted on a gondola or similar and an open waggon full of Nazi troops.
I could run it out and play “Deutschtland” loudly over an amplifier, along with a few loud cannoades and i could get myself a little black moustache and brown blazer with a swaztika on the arm.
This would certainly wake people up and grab attention.
rgds Ian
Only if I could get it to shoot! [}:)]
Yes that would be surprising and impressive.
Ian