Iron Mike
Master At Arms And Resident Curmudgeon
Hello friends!
I decided I needed another project to have on the bench whilst waiting on the painting of my Krupp Morser, so I dug deep in the stash for something that would go together well and was unusual. It doesn't get much more unusual than the Dragon Imperial Series Panzerspahwagen P204 (f). An armored, wheeled recon vehicle, this saw action on the Eastern Front (Klink!). Here's what happened at my bench today.
If you have paid any attention to my builds, you know crummy parts make me crazy! The guns on this kit are marginal at best, so I made one of my own to replace the machine gun. The kit part had a big sink hole in the backside and did not have a hole in the barrel. Knowing it would be next to impossible to drill the tiny hole in the barrel, I whipped out the Griffon Model brass tube and a piece of spare sprue at the correct diameter and made my own.
Being a recon vehicle, this thing has a crazy antenna and the kit doesn't provide the wiring (although they do show the wiring on their paint diagram). I swapped out the connector for another homegrown part, brass tube and lead foil strips.
I trimmed the foil hanger straps to length and installed the part on the hull with CA.
A length of .015 silver solder was glued in for the antenna lead.
Bent to shape with tweezers and trimmed to fit.
The kit goes together pretty easily, although there are no part numbers on the sprue, so referring back to the sprue diagram is necessary.
That pesky gap at the port rear must be dealt with swiftly and severely!
That's all for today, I'll assemble the halo antenna and install it before priming the hull. Thanks for dropping in!
:drinks
I decided I needed another project to have on the bench whilst waiting on the painting of my Krupp Morser, so I dug deep in the stash for something that would go together well and was unusual. It doesn't get much more unusual than the Dragon Imperial Series Panzerspahwagen P204 (f). An armored, wheeled recon vehicle, this saw action on the Eastern Front (Klink!). Here's what happened at my bench today.
If you have paid any attention to my builds, you know crummy parts make me crazy! The guns on this kit are marginal at best, so I made one of my own to replace the machine gun. The kit part had a big sink hole in the backside and did not have a hole in the barrel. Knowing it would be next to impossible to drill the tiny hole in the barrel, I whipped out the Griffon Model brass tube and a piece of spare sprue at the correct diameter and made my own.
Being a recon vehicle, this thing has a crazy antenna and the kit doesn't provide the wiring (although they do show the wiring on their paint diagram). I swapped out the connector for another homegrown part, brass tube and lead foil strips.
I trimmed the foil hanger straps to length and installed the part on the hull with CA.
A length of .015 silver solder was glued in for the antenna lead.
Bent to shape with tweezers and trimmed to fit.
The kit goes together pretty easily, although there are no part numbers on the sprue, so referring back to the sprue diagram is necessary.
That pesky gap at the port rear must be dealt with swiftly and severely!
That's all for today, I'll assemble the halo antenna and install it before priming the hull. Thanks for dropping in!
:drinks
Sure went together quick 
