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Dragon (also known as DML) range of scale model kits

Video: Creating Cast Surface Texture

This video explains how to restore or create cast surface texture typically found on scale model armored vehicles. Here is a link to my Dragon Sherman Construction Tips page (link)%20Construction/sherman-construction.html

Lockheed C 141A Starlifter, 50227, 62nd MAW USAF.

1/200 Dragon, I removed the pilots and covered the undercarriage bays inside the cabin, finished in MM enamels with Future over kit and other decals, build started early 2006.

Tupolev Tu-95 Bear D, DML 1/200

Maritime recon. version of the Bear, Caused the carriers I was on to launch many an Alert Five while cruising the Med. or transiting the Atlantic.

My Christmas tradition.

Hi All, I know Christmas is actually over, but I wanted to share the 1/144 ornament I made for my wife this year. Dragon's 1/144 EA-6A with spare decals. I didn't want to do the squadron featured in the kit, and I have been working on a [...]

Dragon 1/35 M4A1 DV Sherman Tank

It could be said that there is a Sherman for everyone, with so many variations on the theme as the design developed over the course of WW2 and into the postwar period. With so may to choose, both from manufacturers and their versions, one [...]

1/32 Dragon P-51D, 360th FS, 356th FG, The Mighty 8th

This P-51 represents another one of those unsung heroes of WW2, Lt (later Capt) Preston Easley. A West Point graduate, he flew 57 missions in Europe in both P-47's and P-51's, and finished the war with a DFC and 5 Air Medals, and went on [...]

1/32 Dragon Bf110E of 5.NJG 4, 1942

The Me Bf110 needs no introduction for most modelers; the distinctive twin tail, twin engines and slender fuselage made for a very handsome looking airplane, albeit one that was a failure in its original intended role of Destroyer in the [...]

Dragon 1/35th scale King Tiger Battle of the Bulge

Here is my first article. Built back in 2006, this is my favorite German WWII armored vehicle. Built with aftermarket barrel, tracks, figures and fenders. Always liked this pattern, slightly different with the hard edge finish. All [...]

Casualty Evacuation

My last post was a Tamiya French Armoured carrier UE done in German markings, and again ive converted a 2nd one into captured German markings for a field ambulance. Its a great simple wee kit that is very versatile. The figures are a mix [...]

Dragon Nashorn in 1:35 (#6386), with Diorama

This kit #6386 by Dragon is fairly recent, dating back to 2010 and represents the Sd.Kfz.164 Nashorn in a 3 in 1 kit edition. I opted for the initial version delivered to the heavy tank destroyer unit 655 at Kursk, Russia in 1943. Only a [...]