01 - Assembling the Panzer IV Ausf.D

the box! 

 

never, never, never more choose the Photoetched instead of the injected part! 

all this processes!  

for this!!!!!! I don't know yet WHY I follow the manual sometimes! 

really Dragon? what do you think? I have shaking hands!!! 😄 

look this size too!  

more one!  

PE detais, without any injected part for optional parts! hehehe 

well, lets to the steel cables! to relax 

molding them!  

a week in this position!  

and will be ready!  

tools on fenders!  

more Photoetches! OH GOD! 

lets, go for some dry-fit! 

 

YES, I like dry-fits while riding! I'm excited to finish assembling and see that everything is going well! 

 

let's work in the turret now!  

cover the ejection marks! 

 

making some interior details in scratch! 

 

 

 

looking good to me!  

now I can see the empty hull spaces, so let's start filling those spaces! 

 

 

 

a more simplified interior, but just so as not to be empty when looked inside! 

interior view of the turret with scratches  

 

another dry-fit? 😄 

 

the ceiling support is my invention, then I discovered that the tracks-links were only supported on the ceiling without supports there 

resuming assembly after removing all the old paint and keeping it in the box for 2 years 

these stains are all from the old paint that was problematic with the italeri matte clearcoat and that was whitened in the application! 

but the mistake with clearcoat was mine, almost certainly!