I was really looking forward to this kit, with the injection moulded zimmermit and brass bits. It turned out to be a good kit, but on balance I’d have to say the Revell kits are better. Dragon seems to be a bit inconsistent, great zimmermit, accuracy and decals but poor running gear rubber tracks, no spare tracks for the turret!!! and moulding thats not as crisp as Revells. Still looking forward to building the other two I have though[:D]
Great job in braille scale! The zimmerit looks great. I would tone down the black on the tow cables a bit, maybe dry brush with a flat metallic color. Very nice Tiger, camo is superb.
Unfortunately I agree with your comments. I’m not being critical because I know what your going through, but look at the gap between the rear panel and the rest of the body. I’m having the same problem on my Dragon 1/72 Jagdpanther. The fact that the vinyl tracks on the one hand are excellent but on the other are too short makes me just throw my hands up in the air [xx(][:(!] I’ve just about given up on Dragon 1/72 … ah who am I kidding I’ll probably buy more and get upset again [8]
Armour_freek,
The paints are all tamiya except the green which is Xtracolour Olivgrun, X806. I used some pastels to soften the contast of the colours as well.
I-beam,
I anticipated having a few problems with this kit as like their previous stuff it seems to be a re-working of their die-cast models. Hopefully the new range of Dragon kits, E100, T-34s etc are an improvement as for all their qualites Dragon seem to cut too many corners in this scale.
I was always planning to use this kit to ‘practice’ on for the other two I have to build. The big problem I have now is finding suitable schemes. All the late tiger photos I have show them carrying spare tracks on the turret, which this kit does not have) so does anyone know of late Tigers that can be accuraley modeled without the spare tracks? (or alternatively where I can get some spare tracks from)
Certainly tops my Mad Tiger Day effort on the same kit. Great camo. I thoght the tracks themselves were pretty good, but the running gear was aggravating to say the least.
Beautiful job! If you hadn’t said it, it wouldn’t be obvious that it’s 1/72nd.
I’'ve got two of them in a diorama depicting two 510 s.pz.abt Tigers in Kurland in 1945, whitewashed in the snow, that I worked on for the Mad Tiger Day, the daddy of all mad builds. It’s mostly done, but I just need to do a few little things here and there. I think you just gave me the incentive to finish up!
