New 1/72 scale Dragon Armor series

There are 4 items in the 1/72 scale Dragon armor series that will be available starting November 2014:

DRR60685	1/72 Churchill Mk.III Jonior Regiment 21st Tank Brigade 145th Royal Armoured Corps Tunis 1943 - PanorArmor Barcode: 0 89195 60685 3 Box Size: 7.2" x 3.1" x 3.7" The 1/72 scale Dragon Armor series is hugely popular, and the vast range of armored vehicles on offer is incredibly detailed. Indeed, it’s hard to imagine how Dragon could improve upon them! Well, it has…perhaps not in terms of the vehicles themselves, but in their presentation. Dragon is pleased to launch its PanorArmor series, which features colored backgrounds fitted inside the display boxes. The dioramic card background carefully matches the vehicle contained inside, whether it be a dramatic North Africa battle, the steppes in the height of summer, or a village in the eastern front. These scenic illustrations are masterfully painted and they perfectly set off Dragon’s already excellent vehicles. For collectors, the PanorArmor series is the ideal way to show off their collections and display their vehicles in authentic settings! AVAILABLE: November 2014
DRR60686	1/72 VK.45.02(P)H Eastern Front 1945 - PanorArmor Barcode: 0 89195 60686 0 Box Size: 7.2" x 3.1" x 3.7" The 1/72 scale Dragon Armor series is hugely popular, and the vast range of armored vehicles on offer is incredibly detailed. Indeed, it’s hard to imagine how Dragon could improve upon them! Well, it has…perhaps not in terms of the vehicles themselves, but in their presentation. Dragon is pleased to launch its PanorArmor series, which features colored backgrounds fitted inside the display boxes. The dioramic card background carefully matches the vehicle contained inside, whether it be a dramatic North Africa battle, the steppes in the height of summer, or a village in the eastern front. These scenic illustrations are masterfully painted and they perfectly set off Dragon’s already excellent vehicles. For collectors, the PanorArmor series is the ideal way to show off their collections and display their vehicles in authentic settings! AVAILABLE: November 2014
DRR60687	1/72 Churchill Mk.III Tunisia 1943 - PanorArmor Barcode: 0 89195 60687 7 Box Size: 7.2" x 3.1" x 3.7" The 1/72 scale Dragon Armor series is hugely popular, and the vast range of armored vehicles on offer is incredibly detailed. Indeed, it’s hard to imagine how Dragon could improve upon them! Well, it has…perhaps not in terms of the vehicles themselves, but in their presentation. Dragon is pleased to launch its PanorArmor series, which features colored backgrounds fitted inside the display boxes. The dioramic card background carefully matches the vehicle contained inside, whether it be a dramatic North Africa battle, the steppes in the height of summer, or a village in the eastern front. These scenic illustrations are masterfully painted and they perfectly set off Dragon’s already excellent vehicles. For collectors, the PanorArmor series is the ideal way to show off their collections and display their vehicles in authentic settings! AVAILABLE: November 2014
DRR60690	1/72 Pz.Kpfw.III Ausf.M 4./Pz.Rgt. "Totenkopf" Pz.Gren.Div. "Totenkopf" Kharkov 1943 - PanorArmor Barcode: 0 89195 60686 0 Box Size: 7.2" x 3.1" x 3.7" The 1/72 scale Dragon Armor series is hugely popular, and the vast range of armored vehicles on offer is incredibly detailed. Indeed, it’s hard to imagine how Dragon could improve upon them! Well, it has…perhaps not in terms of the vehicles themselves, but in their presentation. Dragon is pleased to launch its PanorArmor series, which features colored backgrounds fitted inside the display boxes. The dioramic card background carefully matches the vehicle contained inside, whether it be a dramatic North Africa battle, the steppes in the height of summer, or a village in the eastern front. These scenic illustrations are masterfully painted and they perfectly set off Dragon’s already excellent vehicles. For collectors, the PanorArmor series is the ideal way to show off their collections and display their vehicles in authentic settings! AVAILABLE: November 2014

Source: Dragon Model USA Newsletter.

Dragon 1/72 Pz.Kpfw.III Ausf.M "Totenkopf" Kharkov 1943

Dragon 1/72 collection are already built collection of tanks. One of the tanks just released is the Pz.Kpfw.III Ausf M from the Totenkopf Panzer Grenadier Division with markings for Battle of Kharkov in 1943. A great piece that I would love to own someday.

Reference:
1. DragonModel USA Website

Radek Pituch Flammpanzer III

Radek Pituch is building a rare Flammpanzer III, a flamethrower tank based on the PzKpfw III chassis. The end built will be a destroyed Flammpanzer III in Hungary, 1945 as shown by the photographs.

It is still work in progress, you can follow the progress on Radek Pituch blog at Flammpanzer III auf Fahrgestell StuG III C/D, Flamm.Pz. Komp. 351, Hungary 1945

Radek Pituch Artillerie Beobachtungspanzerwagen III Ausf. H

Image Credit : Radek Pituch

Another great build by Radek Pituch. This time an artilerry observer tank, based on Pzkpfw III Ausf. H.

Yes, one of the longest names of all german panzers, the BeobPzWg III, mine built on a Pzkpfw III Ausf. H chassis, the old dragon release slightly updated with copper, aluminium and sheet plastic for the turret skirts along with a set of the common Pzkpfw III/StuG III/40 type tracks (open horn) from Modelkasten. To make the vehicle even more interesting I added a coating of zimmerit. There are archive photos showing these vehicles in such outfit from Normandy and Hungary as well. And the latter means a lot because it means that these vehicles survived at least 1 year of heavy fightings (these conversions were made in early 1943 when the earlier Ausffuhrungs (E-H) became totally obsolete by the time of the outbreak of the Zitadelle. I haven't done a triclor camouflage for a very long time and frankly speaking I was hestitating painting it on this vehicle (many of these were originally monotone or wore a two tone camouflage). But I decided to give it a try and started working with Lifecolors. I used a standard set of rotbraun and olivegruen (flashed with a bit of gelbbraun). The base color was done with a mix of gelbbraun and light dust colors. More to follow shortly since I want this model ready for Bytom contest (March 2nd). So yet a month to work on it.  

Source: Radek Pituch Blog

Absolutely great build!