Dragon Panther D WIP

Looking good brutus! As a small suggestion, you may want to putty/fil the seam on the commander's cupola for accuracy sake. On the actual vehicle the "drum" style cupola was a single piece even though DML elected to engineer it as a two-piece assembly thereby producing a seam that shouldn't be there as a result.

Thanks for the kind words and the heads up, Bill. I assume this is what your referring to...

Looking good so far Brutus. Which kit is this: Premium or Zimmed?

Zimm'd (saves soooo much time) kit #6428

Yep, that's it exactly!

Got the winter camo on, tracks painted and started detailing

Cuppola sanded and filled

Brutus,

Nice work on the cupola! Only question I have regarding the whitewash is the selective areas you've applied it to vs. the whole vehicle? Are you working from a reference photo that shows this type of arrangement by any chance? I ask because it was typical to apply a general whitewash over the entire vehicle and you've only applied it to the vertical and not the horizontal surfaces.

hhhmmmmmmm.....I read somewhere that it was haphazardly applied to the sides and not the flat areas, and it was a pain to just do that, maybe I should've done the whole thing ??  Thanks Bill (BTW, that Hetzer's coming along nicely...paint soon ??)

White would most certainty be applied on the topside.  Post Kursk retreat winter 43/44 the Germans no longer had air superiority and a not white tank would have been highly visible from the air.

Twist my arm and make me pull out the airbrush again !!!!  

Definitely would look better IMHO if it was applied as an overall scheme. As for the Hetzer, didn't get back to it this past weekend but should be able to this next one...none of the NFL wildcard games are all that interesting to me so shouldn't have that distraction to contend with.

Be gentle Bill, I've been a New England fan since 1995......