Here is a little something that I just finished. It is mainly OOB with a few little things added. Thanks for looking and comments are welcome.

Terry

Terry;

I'd love to look.... but it looks like your picture-links are broken!

Bob.

PS: what kit did you build?

The kit is the Dragon. Hmmmm I can see the pictures.

Excellent job overall. The rust effect on the mufflers look right, as also the cammo and light weathering. The only thing I would change is the turret radio antenna which is very thick. Something like .010 brass wire will look more to scale.

Thanks Ernie!! I just used the one in the kit. I have'nt been able to find any photo's of the antenna for reference.

Terry;

Hi!

Got home, tried my home machine, and.... voila! Pictures!

Really NICE job! I have to echo some above and say that your exhausts are pretty sharp and convincing, and the weathering is pretty good, too. Not too much, and gently applied. The bits of stuck mud look pretty convincing (one of those things I have not yet done well with, I'm afraid... ).

There are a few things you can really easily fix up to make this super, IMO... They are all details and only my suggestions - I think your build is primo as it stands, but there are always some tweaks a guy can do!

1) That turret antennae. Ugh! It must be about 2 inch in diam! Really looks bad when you have that much nicer (and more to-scale) "Sternantenna" right near by! Just cut that pipe off and add some stretched sprue about the same diam as your star-post, and you'll be off to the races. Scale it to typical 2m length. That, and paint it black. (There were some also painted in the standard equipment dark green...). The real thing was tapered... easy to do when you stretch sprue. It will naturally have tapered portions when you heat and strtch it. Just pull it out and select and clip the section you like!

2) Wire that turret antenna at its base with a nice thick black cable looping down to the rear of your radio. German vehicle antennae had these typical, visible cable connections which coupled into either a gang-box adjacent to the radios (and coupled to same by cables) or directly into the radio. In your rig, you have nicely wired the command-net sternantenna - your turret aerial needs something too!

3) You supplied some really nice head-phones. Maybe a mic would be appropriate? Both the 'phones and the mic plugged into the front panel of the standard radios- usually jacks side x side. (IF 2 radios are visible, both would have a mic... )

4) I really think you did a super low-scale wear n chipping job almost everywhere. Right up to when I looked into the turret ring in front of the gun shield... looks conspicuously clean and sterile compared to almost everywhere else. Get a little "funk" in there for a balanced dirtiness!

5) Kinda last but weirdly stands out... specially as you showed a close-up view of it...! The rear convoy light. It needs to have the lenses colored in, and maybe dirty the thing up to fit in with the rest of your great build. I THINK the little lights were all one color - either green or blue (and whichever you use, DARK, as in unlit darkened lamps).

Again, these are details... you have a great build here, and I find it very inspirational! Thank You for sharing it!

Bob

Thanks Bob!!! The camera is a great way to show things that were missed. When the corrections are made I will post more pictures. Question does the cable for the turret antenna come out of the bottom or out of the side of the mounting?

Terry;

Yeah... folks often say "The camera reveals all!" That's why I always hesitate - go take a smoke-break (if I smoked...), maybe have a beer, take a nap, eat, goose the cat, or something, while pondering that send button... !

The antennae cable screwed into the bottom of the "pot" or base of the whip - so it should feed up into that base from beneath it. In your rig, it appears that the "pot" rests on what looks like some sort of a "box" mount. So bend your cable out from beneath the top floor and out the open side of the "box" and loop it down to your radio. A little extra cable was evident in various vehicle pics - the impression I get from these is that the cable was usually NOT enclosed in any sort of conduit in many installations. Yours would, I think, be one of these "non-enclosed" cases.

I look forward to seeing the updates!

Cheers!

Bob

Well folks after getting some good feedback I went back to the 234 and made a few changes. Here are some updated pic's.

Terry