Along building another project (the resin “Malcador” tank from Forge World, which ended in absolute disaster), I also put together my Mark IV, which really went together rather nicely, with a little help from putty and quite a lot of internal bracing.
I hope to put this tank into an appropriate diorama base complete with infantry passing it by. To that end, I bought Emhar’s box of WW1 British infantry (it was really, really cheap), but that proved to be a mistake. The models are ugly, the poses rather too gung-ho for the behind-the-lines idea I had, and the minis are moulded in a horrible, rubbery plastic that’s a pain to clean up. You can see a few of them there next to the tank, but it might well be I can’t use any of them. Or perhaps I could chop one to pieces and use for a tastefully obscured casualty lying in a water-filled shell crater.
One thing I hadn’t planned on was the sheer size of the tank, I’ve not yet found a base big enough to fit it without looking cramped.
Another vehicle I really should get ready is my Panzer IV, which you can see next to the Mark IV in the above picture.
This was my first Dragon kit, and I was not at all ready for it. To that end, there are certain flaws and problems here and there (such as the folding step being symmetrically mounted on the bracket on the hull, when of course it should be offset to the left). It’s also missing some of the springs for the fenders, most, but not all, of which i should have stashed in a box somewhere. I do have some Friul tracks for it, it’s all just a matter of putting the beast together.
Um… What else? Well, I’m not sure if this thread serves much of a purpose, but it’s inteded to shame me into working harder on these kits 