DML 1/72 Tiger I with Zim (quite a few pics....)
Feb 25, 2018 14:18:35 GMT -5
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Post by bbrowniii on Feb 25, 2018 14:18:35 GMT -5
Hey guy,
Been a while since I could sit down and actually show you what I've been up to. I recently completed the 1/72 scale DML Tiger I with Zim. Nice little kit. There are a couple rough spots and there are a few places where I assumed the instructions were wrong... but they were not.... so I made things a bit harder on myself than I probably needed to.
As always, I am happy to hear your thoughts. Thanks!
The kit is pretty well molded, with quite a bit of photoetch. The one thing that kind of struck me was that the turret bin had no bottom. Easy fix though:
The kit has markings for four vehicles. I chose vehicle 311, from 3/s Pz. Abt 505 in Nowe Koszary in 1944. I won't lie, I didn't research the vehicle a ton. I picked it for two reasons. One, I didn't really want to tackle a complex camo on a 1/72 build and, two, I really like the yellow collar on the gun, and the knight on the side of the turret. There was a decal for the yellow, but I opted to paint it, since I figured I'd bugger up the decal:
At nationals in Danbury last year, I got a Tigerworks base that I decided to put this on:
I also wanted to try to build a "box base" for this. I got the idea from a video someone shared (can't recall where) on Youtube of a guy who cuts up his boxes and uses them to build a display for his builds. So, I cut the box bottom to the dimensions of the Tigerworks base, then I chopped up the box a bit to give it a "display plate":
So the "final" result:
Been a while since I could sit down and actually show you what I've been up to. I recently completed the 1/72 scale DML Tiger I with Zim. Nice little kit. There are a couple rough spots and there are a few places where I assumed the instructions were wrong... but they were not.... so I made things a bit harder on myself than I probably needed to.
As always, I am happy to hear your thoughts. Thanks!
The kit is pretty well molded, with quite a bit of photoetch. The one thing that kind of struck me was that the turret bin had no bottom. Easy fix though:
The kit has markings for four vehicles. I chose vehicle 311, from 3/s Pz. Abt 505 in Nowe Koszary in 1944. I won't lie, I didn't research the vehicle a ton. I picked it for two reasons. One, I didn't really want to tackle a complex camo on a 1/72 build and, two, I really like the yellow collar on the gun, and the knight on the side of the turret. There was a decal for the yellow, but I opted to paint it, since I figured I'd bugger up the decal:
At nationals in Danbury last year, I got a Tigerworks base that I decided to put this on:
I also wanted to try to build a "box base" for this. I got the idea from a video someone shared (can't recall where) on Youtube of a guy who cuts up his boxes and uses them to build a display for his builds. So, I cut the box bottom to the dimensions of the Tigerworks base, then I chopped up the box a bit to give it a "display plate":
So the "final" result:
