Dragon's Sd.Kfz. 234/2 - Completed

JayF;

Thank you.  Let me tell you what got me.  First here a screen shot of step 2 from the instructions (I hope this is not illegal to post the instruction picture):

Once I spent some time figuring it all out it wasn't too bad.  It was basically x8 for one assembly. 

There was a photo etch piece for each jerry can and that seemed to make the straps that wrap around each can to be just a bit too short.  When seen from the side there is a small gap:

Lastly, the view slits can be positioned open and there are a couple of small clear parts that need to get cemented into the window piece.  Keeping the clear part "clear" from all the painting and weathering was a challenge too.  It is a little tough to see:

The antenna that the star piece sits on is very delicate and I broke it try to get it off the sprue and sanded smooth.

Hope that helps.

John

I must say it's a very nice Puma you've built ! Very cool !

The Puma is easily my favorite WWII AFV (just look at my avatar ! )

I'm tempted of buying this Dragon kit, as I think it's the best kit available in this scale, as others are simply variation of the poor Italeri kit.

How was the assembly ? Is it worth getting ?

John, I know what you mean, that's one of the joys of Dragon kits. Eagle was telling me about his /4, 8 parts for each wheel. I have a similar thing going on with the Jagdpanther with internal torsion bars and well detailed axle arms all of which will be out of sight.

I really should add some wheeled armour to the collection and am getting rather drawn to the 234's.

Bish;

Thanks.  I was drawn to the nice box art.  I enjoyed the build, but there were soo many parts to the suspension that aren't seen it is kind of a shame.

John

That's a nice looking build, nice to see some German wheeled armour.

Thank you for the compliment.  I used a 50/50 mix of Vallejo acrylic neutral grey and German grey and applied it with a very fine pointed brush along the lines.

John

Looks Great!  What color did you use to bring out the panel lines?  

Hey John, I think she looks awesome!  I love the 234 variants!  I have the /1 and /2 from Italeri finished and I'm just about done with the /3 from Testor's.  I have Dragon's /4 to build for the 1945 GB and I must say it is intimidating compared to the Italer/Testors kits!  The camo turned out great too!  My /1 and /2 are int hat scheme, but I did the /3 in plain ole Dark Yellow.  Not sure how I'm going to do the /4 yet.

Great work!

Eagle90

Nice work. I like the understated weathering and chipping.