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Building the Dragon 25pdr w/ Trailer

No 27 Ammunition Trailer

Step 6

In this step you need to assemble the wheels for the trailer. These go together easily, but again the towing eyes in the centre of the wheels must be correctly orientated facing downwards. The only aspect of the wheels I don’t like is the two pin connection between the wheels and the hubs; while this is acceptable in terms of strength it does make aligning the wheels and hubs more difficult than it needs to be.

Step 7

This stage covers assembly of the towing face of the No 27 Ammunition Trailer and the two ammunition trays. Starting with the ammunition trays which are relatively easy to work with, the two trays provided consist of a plastic tray with an etched wrap around. Detail wise they look good, it is just a pity they didn’t include a full load. A word of caution here is to make sure you get the two bends in the photo etched part correct, as it won’t fit otherwise and it is fairly fragile.

The towing face of the trailer goes together very well and with nice detail, although the towing face would normally be hidden by a canvas cover over the tools carried on the trailer. An issue is the handles for the manual movement of the trailer: on the real thing these arms are individually hinged and only unfolded when in action, while the design of this part in the kit would need some more scratch work to depict the trailer being towed. One nicely detailed part of this stage is the sprung suspension unit under the arm, which while not a 100% accurate does have a good profile and is finely moulded.