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John Rixon
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just made a start on my new (well, second hand) Dragon Marder iii, bought recently from Robert1968. I'm limbering up on this in anticipation of a Tiger 1 coming for Xmas! Wow, this has thrown me into a world of modelling I didn't know existed! They may be expensive, but you get a LOT of plastic and brass for your coin. The mouldings are incredible, I've not had to clean any flash off at all, but the plastic is hard, and the sprues have a real distinct difference, that needs carefull removal and cleaning. The instructions, well, what can I say? Working drawings is a more accurate description, with many part number errors and also quite a few opaque descriptions of how the damn thing needs to go together! Better than Trumpeter, but sadly lacking the clarity of Tamiya. I'm about to engage in some serious PE work, making fixing brackets for all the tools, out of brass pieces I can barely see, but I do this safe in the knowledge that once done and primed, it'll look pretty amazing, as long as I can keep the thin cyano flowing - on this subject, tell me folks, what is the definitive thin cyano delivery system? I have some amazing tiny nozzles but I know from my RC days, they'll last 20 minutes tops...