BerndM Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Great idea for this diorama,very good,hard to find superlatives, not said above ! For myself i simply love these 1/72 AFVs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlaStix Posted October 29, 2014 Author Share Posted October 29, 2014 Thank you BerndM. Yeah I really enjoyed making them - I have just been looking at your 3 tanks and they look great! Well done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BerndM Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Thank you BerndM. Yeah I really enjoyed making them - I have just been looking at your 3 tanks and they look great! Well done. You created a great szene, love the black and white footage as well, there Dragon kits are not cheap, but worth the money. Thank you, will post one more these days Bernd 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlaStix Posted October 29, 2014 Author Share Posted October 29, 2014 You created a great szene, love the black and white footage as well, there Dragon kits are not cheap, but worth the money. Thank you, will post one more these days Bernd I managed to get the Panther at a reasonable price, at the time, off Amazon - I think i was lucky though. The Tiger did cost me more but I ended up getting it from a model shop and I needed it fairly quickly to meet the deadline for the D-Day Group build the diorama was entered in. Kind regards, Stix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Dragon 1/72 kits are definitely overpriced at the UK RRP.....Especially their more recent releases which are akin to unpainted diecasts and have moulded on detail that one would normally only expect to find on a quick-build kit. If you are interested in 1/72 armour I strongly recommend consulting the 'Henk of Holland' and 'On The Way!' websites as a guide to your puchases: http://henk.fox3000.com/index2.htm http://www.onthewaymodels.com/ There are also a number of detailed commentaries in our own review section: http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/forum/464-kits/ I've always considered the Revell 1/72 Pz.IV Ausf H to be the benchmark for Braille AFVs.....It's not perfect, but it's not too far off and what it most notably lacks is unlikely to be found in the offerings of other manufacturers (ie: zimmerit): Revell: http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/RV3184 Dragon: http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/DN7497 You can check out the parts of the respective kits on Henk of Holland or OTW!, but to summarise, the Revell kit is superior in almost every regard, the only advantage of the Dragon kit being that it's tracks are of accurate pitch.....But they are also DS-100 bands and thus prone to mismoulding & distortion, twisting & creasing, not to mention crumbling to dust if you use the wrong sort of adhesive or primer on them. You decide! (I should add as a caveat that the older Dragon 1/72 Pz.IV Ausf F, F2 & G kits are superb, way better than their Ausf H, indeed they are superior to the Revell Ausf H kit in many ways, but they are also significantly more expensive.) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BerndM Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Part is doing a PE set of Zimmerit for the Revell Pz IV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Yup.....If you add that and a set of OKB Grigorov tracks (not sure if they do sprockets) and some etched schurzen you are getting very close to the perfect Braille kit IMHO. Here is a fine build of the Revell Ausf H & Ausf J kits: http://www.missing-lynx.com/articles/small/acpz4/acpz4.htm You can find the OKB Grigorov flexible resin tracks here: http://shop.okbgrigorov.com/category/6/1-72-detail-sets-and-conversions.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul A H Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Superb! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlaStix Posted October 31, 2014 Author Share Posted October 31, 2014 Thank you for your kind comment Paul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Sorry for waffling in your thread Stix. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlaStix Posted October 31, 2014 Author Share Posted October 31, 2014 Sorry for waffling in your thread Stix. With all the help and support you've given me throughout this project you are more than welcome to waffle on as much as you like - I find it very informative waffle! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russ c Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 Really nice work there Stix 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pawel Szczudlyk Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 This looks like a frame from the Hollywood movie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlaStix Posted November 3, 2014 Author Share Posted November 3, 2014 Thank you Russ and sdk_uk for your kind comments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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