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Comparing Panzer IIIs: Dragon vs. Tamiya

I exchanged both kit cannons against such made of metal. With the "J" it is turned from copper tube by myself, the "L" got one the company Jordi Rubio. Both kits have tow ropes, which did not please me, why they were replaced by bicycle brake ropes. In order to be able to form it better, they must be heated. I took the thimbles from the tank IV accessory kit of Tamiya. The appropriate rope mounting plates developed from self made aluminium foil pieces.

As additional detailing I manufactured the reserve visor of the commander from aluminium foil on both tanks and innumerable rivets at the turret’s accessories box of the "J" (this work I saved with the Tamiya model). Likewise I supplemented the missing welding seams by a stretched sprue which was softened in plastic glue and structured with an engraving needle afterwards.

At the Tamiya model I improved the tool mounting plates by means of aluminium strips by myself, while Dragon may sun itself in the gloss of a PE-set from ABER. The tool originates mainly from the Tamiya accessory set that I have already mentioned.

Dragon´s tank received the plastic single tracks links of this company which have to be be prepared laboriously, while Tamiya got metal tracks of Friulmodellissimo. One can throw the kit’s soft plastic tracks away without regard!

The small side lights were scooped out and filled with casting resin. With the "L" I inserted a lamp before, which was made of a clear stretched sprue, that was heated at the very top to get a small bulb.