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DUKW info
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 7:45 am
by maker1966
Could anyone guide me on the best place to get good quality drawings for a DUKW that are good enough too up scale to 1/6th without too many errors. Would it be feasible to scale up some 1/35 drawings from kit and be good enough ? I have the ability to measure a mostly complete one locally, although the condition is poor for most original equipment.
Just an added note, could any answers also include pay for place too..
Re: DUKW info
Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2025 7:28 am
by M1A2AbramsTuskII
OK, first off, love your taste. The DukW is great.
Second, if you look up "DUKW blueprints" on Google some will come up. I have found multiple, some even with detailed measurements. If you need any more help, you can PM me.
Re: DUKW info
Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2025 7:50 am
by jhamm
Re: DUKW info
Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2025 11:53 am
by MonsieurTox
The problem is that most of the blueprints I've found online are wrong, they have the top and bottom edges of the hull parallel while the hull should have a wedge shape. Even the Italeri kit is wrong, but the very old 1/76 airfix kit is correct!
I saw a guy (who wanted to model one) asking on a board of guys having real DUKW if the top and bottom was parallel or not. A guy who owned a real dukw replied they were parallel then he checked his own DUKW and replied back it was not
I studied a real DUKW a'd I can assure you it's a wedge shape. It's pretty hard to see on Pic because of lense distorsion and perspective.
I built mine with a wedge shape and if I look at pictures of it, the top and bottom look parallel...
Even the square profiles on the side of the hull are not parallel to each other...