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31/01/2021 8:47 pm
This Maybach Zeppelin is a kit that I built a few months ago, not the finest work I've done, but also not the finest kit I've ever worked with. It was made several decades ago by P Models of Switzerland, their No. 3. I think I posted my process on Forum 43 "Old Style," but I'm not sure since that's no longer accessible. So here we go again:
(Click on any picture for enlarging.)
This is a big model, enough that I wondered if it was really to scale. Then I compared it with a familiar model, a Premium X Wagoneer.
Comparative dimensions 1:1
Jeep Wagoneer Maybach Zeppelin
wheelbase 110 (inches) 144/ 147 (sources vary)
length 186 211/217
width 74.8 71.7
weight 4499 (pounds) 6137
(Okay, so I included the weight figures just for the fun of it.)
I think this model really is 1:43 in scale, or at least awfully close to it. Building this P Model was really an experience. I don't think I'm going to try another any time soon.
01/02/2021 4:25 pm
Last year I managed to buy two of these and they are, indeed big. That said I also - after about ten years of procrastination - managed to get an MV-43 1934 Spohn cabriolet and that, too is comparably big: as is the 1932 Spohn stromline. It would seem these Maybach were impressive.
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