1/35 Tamiya Dragon Wagon

Gallery Article by Angelo M Picardo on July 13 2012

 

The Tamiya Dragon Wagon has so much detail to start with, it's difficult to know where to add any more.

I basically enhanced a few bits, such as the lock down latches on the armoured screens and adding tie down straps.

Other alterations were replacing the armoured shield by the control levers with thinner, more scale like plastic sheet, and replacing the M2 .50 Browning with one from the Academy set.

Apart from that, I think Tamiya have released a truly impressive kit.

 

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The Sherman sitting on the trailer was built as a separate project, built before I made the Dragon Wagon.

It is the Tamiya re-issue of their M-4 as the M-4A3 Jumbo Sherman.

I added a resin interior to the hull as the driver and radio operator's hatches would be left open.

Painting was done with Tamiya acrylics and Humbrol enamels.

I used Mig Pigments in the weathering process and to represent dried, caked on mud I stippled on Humbrol filler putty which when painted over gave the desired effect.

Angelo M Picardo

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Photos and text © by Angelo M Picardo