1/35 Pz. IV Anglerfish construction

Katya Hodgson
Building this is an extremely bleagh experience. Can someone have a word with Dragon and tell them that making a kit deliberately over-complicated doesn't make it better, just more irritating?

Katya Hodgson
Progress at last!

Nathan Dempsey
Another interesting coloration. Was this kit molded in that brownish color?

Treehugger
I have the Dragon 1:350 Ohio submarine. It is ok, but there are signs that they didn't put their best ppl to make it so to speak. The upper part is just weirdly placed onto the model I remember. I had to add some styrene to make it work.

Katya Hodgson
Nathan, the kit was molded in the right brown colour for the vehicle I am building, but unfortunately there were far too many marks from where I had cut parts off the sprue, and also some glue marks after putting it together. Because of this I did my best to match the original colour and settled on Vallejo German Red-Brown, which is what I have been using in the airbrush.

Treehugger, The fit has mostly been ok, it's more the pointless complexity that seems to exist merely to inflate the part count.

Nigel
I always paint the plastic, even it it's the 'right' colour it looks wrong.
Same with brass :/

Katya Hodgson
I didn't paint the plastic on Tamiya T-34-76 and BT-7 I did (because I was just getting back into the hobby) and on the Girls und Panzer Chi-Nu I did (because the plastic was the perfect colour and I didn't think I would be able to get the paint right).

Richmond
Have you ever considered fixing the small parts to cocktail sticks or kebab skewers and then spraying all round and then skewering the sticks in polystyrene for drying?

Katya Hodgson
Normally if the parts are that small, I paint them on the sprue.

Katya Hodgson
More progress, wheels are done and first decals are on the vehicle. Next is to get the tracks and tools on.

Lee Fogel
Nice work

Katya Hodgson
Thanks. 🙂

Katya Hodgson
Tracks and turret spaced armour are on. Next I need to finish the tools and other side details.

Katya Hodgson
Getting to the final stages at last.

Katya Hodgson
Happily the paint seems to stick to the side skirts after all.

Katya Hodgson
Tools and mounting brackets for side skirts are on, just waiting for paint on side skirts to dry, then I can finish it. 🙂