Panther Progress -- New Pics 19 Apr --

Thanks again, everyone. I misplaced my camera for a few days. Kind of worried I'd left it where it had gotten stolen, but finally found it under the passenger seat of my car. No wonder I can loose PE stuff so easily!! lol

I will try and get a pic of the "mauve" rust stains posted soon.

Have a great day, all.

Bill,
sorry for the delay in commenting.
i was out of state for a week and i am still getting thru all the posts that i missed!

looks excellent!
you should be very pleased to be wrapping this one up.
i salute your effort & perseverance.

now for the dio . . .

Bill:
this big cat is certainly coming along !
i especially like the last pic, the zim & camo work so nicely together.
thanx 4 sharing ur excellent work !
congrats &

frosty

ROFL! ! !
Beautiful! ! I haven't the courage to try a Panzer just yet. Fine inspiration though.
Nice play-by-play at the Panzer shoppe!

Looks like you have a fine build going there, Bill!

I like it!
Excellent job, Bill.

Looks great bill, and the great thing about pastels is , if you make a mistake well just hit them with a wash and they are gone , beware of drybrushing after putting on zimmerit, it makes that look way too harsh in the light , I just skip that process myself now , and it doesn't look that bad when done . Keep up the good work!

Thank you all for your kind remarks. It seems like it's been a very long road! Glad it's all coming together, finally.

Lookin really hip, Bill. Great work! So nice to see the evolution of the model as you build it. Keep the pics coming please.

Bill, looks good! What else do you have in store for your Panther, dio?

Joe

Great Looking Panther

Wow, looks great, Bill !


That looks weathered ! ( some of my best effects have been by accident. The trouble comes when you try to duplicate them )

Great looking Panther.

looks good from here.

joe

Great Job!!! Bill. Thanks for the picture.
mark956

It looks great
and the shines gone
cool zim

Looks great Bill, you can just about smile and get that baby on the shelf.

Looks like it really turned out well. You must be quite pleased. The washes did a great job of toning down those spots. Now, looks like you only need a dull coat.

BTW that panther looks really sung in that blanket.

Looks great Bill! Mauve rust eh? Sounds like a problem with that steel the Germans were using on that one!

Ron

(I gotta git rid of that shine!) lol

Thanks, Jon

Looks fantastic Bill, keep us posted.
I just gotta see how this turns out!

I spent part of the weekend weathering the cat with oil washes. I think it came out pretty well. The light spots really toned down well. Here are some pics.










Unfortunately, I then put some pastels on and some of them came out pretty weird. One rust color I used went VERY mauv! I mixed them with some alcohol and I think they attached themselves pretty solidly to the clear coat (Tamiya clear) I used to seal the paint. It might be time for somemore oil washes!! (The muzzel turned out well, though!) I may have pics of this phase up later today or tomorrow!

Nice build! Keep up the good work.

Gip Winecoff

Bill,
Looks good. Have you finished the weathering yet? Need more pics.

Thanks for all the kind words and encouragement all of you. I appreciate them. I had a lot of firsts on this bad boy. I guess that's what modeling is all about! I've really enjoyed it.

Good looking Panther Bill!!! I think the camo and "leaves" will look fine after weathering it! Keep up the good work!

Eric

It's looking great Bill ..... you've made a silk purse out of this old sow's ear.

Looks great, Bill !!


Nice Camo, Nice zim, great detail !

Ambush pattern, very nice! Gotta love it.

Ron

QUOTE: Originally posted by ausf Looks Great!, now it's in the 'showroom finish', dirty it up put it in front of some bushes and it'll pratically disappear.

(Tank shop, Frankfurt, 1943)
ACHTUNG! Ah yez.. You zere, vurker.. You wiz ze necktie und commision bazed fee.. I vould like to take zis Panzer for a tezt draive.

jawohl.. Ehm vich panzer..

Ze Panzer..

Mein herr, ve have many panzers here..

Don't you get schmart wiz me, jung mann, or I vill have you shot zo fazt you von't even be able to zay guten himmel, wo sind mein kartoffeln... Now give me ze keys to ze panzer tank.. Ze panzer funf.. You know, p-a-n-t-h-e-r.. Panzer.

Ohh, ze Panzer! I zought you ment just any panzer..

Vy vould I zay zat? Vot do you take me for? A dummkopf?

Saukopf..

VOT??

Nein.. Saukopf gun mantlet.. On ze jagdpanzer

On ze Stug?

Jah, zat vun too, but I meant on ze jagd panzer..

I did not zay I vonted a jagd panzer, I vont ze regular panzer..

Vell, ve do have a nice low kilometer panzer. wiz ze special hub capz und schporty auspuff..

Vot colour?

A pretty sree tone camouflage..

A yes, zat is nice yes, yes.. Vot colour iz ze interiour?

Oh, a fetching weiss wiz ze black trim. All carefully inschtalled by only ze finest schlave labour our wehrmacht could round up und schtuff into ze back of an Opel Blitz...

Veeerrry intereschting, yes.. Vot does it do for ze petrol?

Oh, about funf liters to ze vun kilometer.. Better zan ze average Amerikanischer family automobile..

Ach zo.. Vell, lets take it vor a schpin und ve'll talk about it zome more zen, eh?

How vould herr be paying for zis?

I shall zee to it zat you shall not be shot, jah?

Sounds fair enough to me..