Matt, Dragon usually leaves us some creativity and room for improvement..

Using sponge for chipping, I cut several small blocks of sponge in different shapes and sizes and tryout on a chunk of plastic from the spare box

Nice work so far, clean build too.
I'm afraid that even with all the hatches opened we won't be able to see all that detailing.

Keep us posted with your updates !!!

I ran into that with the Dragon Initial brummbar with zimmerit.

The funny thing is, the very first dragon kit I built was a Panzer III years ago with, of course, the same issue. I was at my wits end back then until I noticed the tabs shouldn't be there.

The interior is nice if not particularly complete, but at some point I'm going to have to do a Stug build with a fully detailed interior. What is here should make the view through the hatches nice, though.

This is kind of wild. When I read your posts about the tabs I thought I'd better drag out my Orange Series Pz.III E/F to mark the need to get rid of those tabs on the instructions, since I know it's a re-release of the old molds. Oddly, those tabs don't seem to be there any more! They were on the top of the sides of the tub, right?

Michael

You can see them in this photo. The first two are almost directly above the first two return rollers, the third a bit behind the third roller.

Yep, they're gone on the orange series kit. Whadda ya know! Nice work, by the way!

Michael

as my SD.KFZ 251 is at the painting & weathering stage it is start to look at the next build.... and that will be the C-H Pz III Beob Ausf H. plan is to (I think) do it russian summer camo (dark yellow/green and then hairspray white wash to try that technique again...

will get the starting piccies up soon.....

The postal worker brought me a present, today. Expect to see the results, tomorrow.

this is what I will be building - sorry no date on the piccies - taken last week, not started yet (couldnt face the hours of wheel building after I took the photos ;-))

P6070066 by Rob Worth, on Flickr

P6070067 by Rob Worth, on Flickr

Start pic

Here is my start up photo for the campaign.
It will be a Pz III Ausf N DAK



Tom

Time to post some progress!




Assembly mostly complete and ready for painting, with schurzen test fitted to make sure I've got all the mounting brackets lined up properly, looks like I'm good. This is the first model I've built that has schurzen plates, and these metal ones Dragon has included look pretty good.



Painting the tools is going to be interesting. I had intended to paint them off the vehicle but forgot as I was assembling. Oh well.



Dark yellow base sprayed on. I'm undecided at this point- I don't have an airbrush and I'd like to find a good hard edged scheme but my research isn't turning up much. I could leave the vehicle yellow, after all plenty of them were but that isn't very interesting to look at.

Made a start on some of the sub-assemblies.

Good morning Matt. I was wondering if I could build one of these little beauties for this Campaign?


I know it's smaller than the rules allow and if you say no it's O.K.I will find something else. Thanks, Jeff T.

This is where I am up to. Still have the tracks to deal with and several mistakes to fix! I should have some paint on the T 34 by the weekend.

Great kit the panzer 3, but be careful with the instructions and studied every piece before glueing. Also some ejector pins are visibles in the tracks, so take care of it.

Well This is my entry, the Orange box for the PZ.Beob.WG III Ausf H. I started it on July 4!

The wheels fitting is a little loose, so make sure you double test the alignment and that all the wheels touch ground before making final fitting.



The hull is a little warped, at least in my case. Have to heated in water in order to achieve a decent one. Here my result so far.

For the tracks after some cleaning I used 96 on each side.







I left two tracks unglued on each side for easy release like in the picture.

More work in progress, hull and turret near complete. both have some plastic line to let you know where to put some pieces, remember to removed it first.

Also some plastic putty used here and there to fill some seams lines an other parts on the rear.

The Only PE Parts, I just glued it with Carpenter's white glue. Works fine for me, just use a small amount.

And finally the Turret in a 75% done. 12 hours so far since I started this project, should stay out of the soccer games on TV jejejee

Looking cool cat dude.
Myself, i have been slacking.ANy free time i have been devoting to Clash of clans. Addicting game.

progress on my Pz III...

P7110203 by Rob Worth, on Flickr

P7110204 by Rob Worth, on Flickr

P7110205 by Rob Worth, on Flickr

Very clean construction, I Like it! Plastic look a bit dark than my version, maybe is the light.

Thanks Petro, I just have the Ipms National Fever activated!