Tamiya Panther G late

Welcome to the forum. I agree with the others about painting it once you have it mostly together. I hope you and your son enjoy building it.

Wellcome!

I'm working on one of these. Just glue everything together first. It's much easier and less work to do that. Then you can get a Tamiya Dunkelgelb rattle can and spray the whole thing. Go back and paint the detail parts and then camo it if you want. Glosscoating over bare plastic is not going to look very good. If you like a gloss look you can dip it in Future floor wax after painting it and let it drip dry or better yet airbrush it with Future.

Welcome to the madhouse.

I also agree with the above. Get it almost completely assembled (minus the roadwheels) and paint.

Have fun!

Welcome to FSM, Joshsdad.

As the others said, assembling the parts prior to painting is probably the better way to do it. Besides, although the parts seems to have already the same color as required you will have problems when joining the parts when they are already painted as glue oftentimes melts the paint or even dullcote away.

Good luck.

I agree
welcome to FSM

I agree with the others
I forgot to say Welcome to the forums Joshsdad

Welcome to FSM Joshsdad. Good to have you join us here !!!

I agree with the others .... if you just dullcote the plastic .. it will look like dull plastic.
Always looks much better to paint all the visible parts.

Welcome joshsdad. Build as much of the base color as you can and then spray it the color of choice, probably dunkelgelb (dark yellow) I would leave the wheels seperate, because they need the rubber tires painted. Anyway, the flat base will cover the shiney parts. Be sure to wash the parts on the sprue in dish soap to take all the chemical agents off.

it would be better building parts of the tank like the hull and turret with no wheels and spraying it all Dark yellow, and then build it