1/700 Dragon Type 42 Destroyer Premium Edition
Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2022 7:25 pm
It's no great feat, and most of the work was done last year, but I can call this 1/700 Dragon Type 42 Destroyer Premium Edition done. Markings are as the Argentinian ship the ARA Hercules. It was a trying experience, as I bought it off Ebay and discovered the decals were MIA. Dragon was of zero help in getting a replacement, and nobody has AM decals in production anymore for generic 1/700 modern Royal Navy vessels. I ended up using a generic set of modern US Carrier decals to approximate what was on the deck.
Then the flag at the stern defeated all my attempts at custom printing a decal so I ended up just cutting a strip of the white decal paper and painting the sky blue stripes with a gold dot in the middle on it just to be done with it.
The thing I love about 1/700 destroyers is their extremely small footprint. It is roughly 7 inches long and maybe an 3/4 of and inch wide.
Then the flag at the stern defeated all my attempts at custom printing a decal so I ended up just cutting a strip of the white decal paper and painting the sky blue stripes with a gold dot in the middle on it just to be done with it.
The thing I love about 1/700 destroyers is their extremely small footprint. It is roughly 7 inches long and maybe an 3/4 of and inch wide.