Dragon 1/72 Elephant and reality in scale house: Anizo dio

[longlance67]

Hiya all

time for another small scale build after being welcomed into the small sale family (thanks Eryk )
after having a blast with the KingTiger I wanted to try something a little different and push myself a little more with each build, so for this project we will be try our hand at Diorama depicting a Elephant operating in the Anizo beachhead, my first Italian themed build and something I'm very excited about try my hand at

the Dragon kit seems to be one of their earlier small scale releases and does not have the same sharpness as its newer release brothers and but its still a nice kit though I will have add Zimmert myself which will be tricky in this scale but not impossible





the building for this dio came from Reality in Sale's Dio72 range, which is a four part resin set, depicting an Italian house with a side gate and outdoor cellar entrance, its a finely cast with no sink marks or bubbles and little to no flash








looking forward to embarking this project should be a lot of fun

thanks for looking

Shane

[PaulAyrey]

Really interesting subject choice Shane. Love those buildings they look excellent

[longlance67]

thanks Paul it should make for something a little different

cheers mate


Shane

[AchtungPanzer]

mate !

[longlance67]

thanks Eryk

[Panzermeister36]

Sounds like a cool plan Shane, I`ll be watching this one

Tip on the zimmerit though: most guys I know who do it in 72 don`t put putty down first; they just carve it into the surface with the ol`hobby blade as that`s a better scale look. But on this the zimmerit only goes halfway up the superstructure sides so if you do it that way it won`t look good because the marks on it would be lower than the steel plate....just a tip, maybe you could put just a hint of putty to raise the zimmerit up a tad...but I don`t know and it`s our model so hey, have a fun build with it

[longlance67]

Sounds like a cool plan Shane, I`ll be watching this one

Tip on the zimmerit though: most guys I know who do it in 72 don`t put putty down first; they just carve it into the surface with the ol`hobby blade as that`s a better scale look. But on this the zimmerit only goes halfway up the superstructure sides so if you do it that way it won`t look good because the marks on it would be lower than the steel plate....just a tip, maybe you could put just a hint of putty to raise the zimmerit up a tad...but I don`t know and it`s our model so hey, have a fun build with it

Hiya buddy, thanks for the heads up mate, but I have to admit the thought of craving up the model is a little too scary for me to stomach hahahah, the plane I have for the Zimm is the same method I used for the 1/76 KingTiger I originally intended for Russell's D-day GB on youtube, where I used Citadels liquid greenstuff applied ultra thin to the model and the pattern made from a tiny tool I made from scrap sheet

thanks again though


Shane

[alextheblue]

Saints alive Shane!! I've only just picked my jaw up off the floor from the result of your Tiger 1/72 marvel and you're at it again.

Great start and I'm looking forward to this one!

[Rob]

Bellissimo! Great project Shane

[wappynutter]

Good luck buddy, I am confident you will make this piece look the dogs danglies!!!

Still loving the tiger and dio....... Now you gonna give us yet another to drool over!!
Take your time and enjoy Shane....

Still not seen your BF110 fly over my BOFORS hidey hole yet!! Lol....
Take care, Happy Modelling..

[longlance67]

Saints alive Shane!! I've only just picked my jaw up off the floor from the result of your Tiger 1/72 marvel and you're at it again.

Great start and I'm looking forward to this one!

thanks Alex mate, really humbled by your kind words, I'm really happy to have such support for this new journey mate

thanks again buddy

Bellissimo! Great project Shane

thank you for the kind words Rob means a lot my friend

Good luck buddy, I am confident you will make this piece look the dogs danglies!!!

Still loving the tiger and dio....... Now you gonna give us yet another to drool over!!
Take your time and enjoy Shane....

Still not seen your BF110 fly over my BOFORS hidey hole yet!! Lol....
Take care, Happy Modelling..

hahaha don't worry buddy the Bf110 is just over the horizon
thanks for the kind words mate I am very humbled and hope this build will be just as enjoyable mate


thanks again for the all the kind words lads it means a lot, the is start the build today after dinner so the first photo update is inbound


Shane

[longlance67]

Hiya All

first small update, got a hour at the bench and began work on the roads wheels and suspension arms, man I hate road wheels hahaha but has to be done, after a hour of cutting and clean up all the wheelies where on and now its on to the tracks which are link and length which may be a pain to get right I fear







thanks for looking


Shane.

[longlance67]

first snag in the build, things were going so well until I got to the tracks, which are horrible to work with as the drive sprokets sit too far back from the road wheels thus making the tracks not line up

so either I find a way to add spacers to the drives or change the elephant for another model, got a StugIV early I could use in its stead


Shane

[AchtungPanzer]

Well done mate and good luck with .

[PaulAyrey]

Looks great Shane. Hope you sort the tracks

[longlance67]

Well done mate and good luck with .

Thanks Eryk

im gonna need it lol as this kit is gonna be a bit of lemon to get right

Looks great Shane. Hope you sort the tracks

thanks Paul hopefully I will if not I'll switch to the Stug IV hahaha


Cheers


Shane

[Rob]

You'll rise to the challenge I am sure. If not a Stug would be nice!
Good luck!

[longlance67]

thanks Rob I'll be getting right back to this project very soon, just finishing off a few smaller projects in between



thanks

Shane