Finally got around to finishing my Dragon E-100. It’s a nice little kit, and I enjoyed building, painting and weathering it at a lesuirely pace, along with a bunch of other projects.
Larry,
I hate to admit it, but I need the “large print” version of photos to see what’s going on. Even the bifocals didn’t help. Must say, from what I see looks as if you’ve done a good job.
Joe
Larry nice model, thats the Dragon 1/72 E100 isnt it. What were the tracks like. These are the new ones that are supposed to have the easy of gluing and detail of plastic, but one peice and therefore easier to put on. Were they??
[#ditto] From what I can make out the paint looks like it turned out nice.
I’m with Joe and the other guys Larry, how bout some pics that will balloon buddy?
My image hosting service only allows photos up to 200k, and check out the size of these images – I made them about as big as I could. Hmm, maybe there’s some lower setting I can put my pictures on? Or maybe I’ll drop them onto a free image host …
Let me work on it – the kids are calling right now!
Ok, never used photobucket before. Let’s see if this works.
All as you said. I glued them together with cyano glue, and they held fine even as I wrestled the idler on with the treads toothed on. The are very soft track lengths, so they do not have lots of “live” resistance – they sit nicely onto the wheels when you glue them down for that “dead” look.
As always with my photography, the pastels which are kind of subtle don’t show that well. I painted the hull sides red primer, because the tank would have been painted with the side skirts on, and then put some orange pastel on to indicate the beginnings of some surface rust.
This is a shameless copy of the look of the tank from Blackwell’s beautiful model on Missing Lynx, except obviously without the fine detailing and with the addition of the number. I assumed that if the Germans ever got these things into units, they wouldn’t even be independent heavy panzer battalions – maybe independent platoons, hence the single number.
It’s a cute little thing, though my other 72nd WWII armor doesn’t consider it to be that small! It was a fun build. Next I’m going to finish my 72nd G6 “Rhino,” which is virtually done. It’s going to be another largely clean vehicle (I assumed E-100s would be fighting mostly in urban areas, and the G6 maneuvers (and once actually fought) on the savannah.
Larry,
Bless you for saving the sight of an old man. I use Photobucket and it’s been very good for me.
My hat’s off to you for being able to build in that scale. Looking real good. Seems funny that the images are bigger than the kit.
Again, good work and thanks for posting new images.
Joe
How do you paint those little dots without making it look like you used a paint brush? Do you use a brush or something else?
I was thinking that. When you show pictures of 72nd scale kits, they almost always are bigger than the eye sees the kit, with all that entails. [:0]
That’s why my hat’s off to the guys who build 72nd and post pics and it looks like 35th!
Love the ambush scheme, very well done. Nice looking model. It’s so big for 1/72 it’s probably as big as some smaller 1/35’s.
I just used a brush. I paint 15mm miniatures as well, so I have some tiny brushes.
It looks ok. You can see that a brush did it, but then again some say that the dots were put on the vehicles with a brush (others say it was a template). It actually looks better on the model than on the blown-up photos.
Thanks for the kind words guys. Any suggestions on improving it a bit? Only thing to keep in mind is it already had some pastels on it, so it’s fairly far along as weathering goes.
Outstanding, Larry! The tracks sag perfectly. I love the camo, too!
I didnt think it was 1/72 at first.
Very nice work!
Woohoo for ballooning pics [:p]
Looks great.
Welcome to the BIG E brotherhood.I basicly did my 72 as a clone of my 35.a mini E to say. hehe.
Looks great. You did a good job on the chamo sceme. I have yet to finish my sherman, then build mine.
did it come with PE and link and length tracks?
Great looking build. Love the camo.
Rubberband tracks which look really really good and PE grill covers,plus 2 figures which comparable in 35th scale look great.