As some others have mentioned, I'm not planning to do a day by day, piece by piece WIP here. Just batches of random pics as I get things done. As stated, the kit is by Dragon and was given as a gift from a friend who has started to build for therapy reasons. Like myself, he needed something to help with his PTSD issues, and once he realized how well it worked for me, he decided to give it a go. I'm happy to say he's on his 5th or 6th build, has just completed his first diorama, and is starting to play with photo etch now. (I'm trying to get him to join)
I added the Lion Roar photo etch to this because, let's face it, nothing says armor quite like a ton of trinkets and baubles attached everywhere! It will eventually be a diorama depicting a squad from the Grossdeutschland Panzergrenadiers during Operation Citadel. Still working on a title though.
All the lower hull PE installed. To make things easier later, I brush painted the areas I may miss with my airbrush. I plan to go with an overall RAL 7021 scheme on this. I've seen quite a few of the sand/green/brown schemes lately and though a little old school might be nice.
Mucho brass! Actually, that's 1/3 of the detail work. another 1/3 is attached to the tools, and the final 1/3 will go on after it's painted. This one fender took me roughly 12-16 hours to do.
(the plastic posts are styrene stock filling in the holes for all the kit supplied mounts.)As usual, comments and suggestions are welcome. Thanks for looking!
