Panzer Aces GB January 2007 to May 31, 2008

bufflehead wrote:

Good luck with the figures dupes!!  You're a better man than I! Fortunately figures in the stash isn't a weakness of mine yet!!  In fact I have NO figures other what has come with the kits and I haven't even tried to paint one!  Last 1/35 figure I painted was nearly 30 yrs ago.  Shoot, it takes me long enough just to build and paint one tank.....

Hello...my name's Bob and I'm afraid to do figures....

Maybe it's time for a Group Build for those who are afraid of doing figures....actually, I wish I had the patience (and skill)  to do figures....they add a lot to armor builds, imho...

I've been thinking of doing a figure tutorial on how to paint and shade with Vallejo acrylics...

Different from your typical oil method, but I think it's easier and more realistic.

Anyone interested? 

bobbaily wrote:

bufflehead wrote: Good luck with the figures dupes!!  You're a better man than I! Fortunately figures in the stash isn't a weakness of mine yet!!  In fact I have NO figures other what has come with the kits and I haven't even tried to paint one!  Last 1/35 figure I painted was nearly 30 yrs ago.  Shoot, it takes me long enough just to build and paint one tank..... Hello...my name's Bob and I'm afraid to do figures.... Maybe it's time for a Group Build for those who are afraid of doing figures....actually, I wish I had the patience (and skill)  to do figures....they add a lot to armor builds, imho...

Now THAT'S an idea Bob!  I think more armor builders would put figs in their AFVs if they knew how do paint them right.  We could call it, the "I Figure I'm Afraid of Figures" GB!! LOL!!

or not....

Uh oh...don't know what I started here!

1) I'm in for the "I Figure I'm Afraid of Figures" GB. Absolutely!

2) Hermes, I would read your acrylic tutorial over and over and over...If I could get my figs to look anywhere near as good as yours, I would be ecstatic! Since I only have a very basic understanding of the "oil paint" method, forgetting it to learn the "acrylic" method shouldn't be too hard.

PLEASE tell me when and where you post it!!! 

Mini-update today, only got a few things done, but I've been messing around with my little photo booth and taking a lot of pics. Decals are on, am working on the tools right now, and then it's on to weathering! Sadly football is keeping me off of the bench, so I'm doing monotonous assembly work on my winter Panther while the games are on (read: road wheels and suspension)...but this week I should get to start weathering the KT!

Hermes, you don't happen to have the fig tutorial done, do you? I'm going to need it in about a week, tops.

That's some nice figure work Hermisminiatures!  I would love to see a tutorial from you! 

Sorry for my absence over the weekend.  I spent the entire time shoveling snow!  We got hammered by that massive storm that pounded the west.  I swear, that's all I did was shovel snow starting Friday evening after work and ending late yesterday afternoon.  It was a great workout but took all the fun out of Saturday and Sunday.  I had no free time to work on my models or stay on top of the forums.  

Thanks Ernest.  Reno got pretty hammered, especially in my neck of the woods.  We live in the upper elevations of NW Reno and are pretty much on the edge of town butting up against Pevine mountain so we always get it way worse than the folks down in the valley.   

I know you all got pounded with a lot of rain and had flooding in areas.  Did you hear about the levee break in Fernley NV that created quite a flood?  I think about 800 families were affected if I remember the news story correctly.  Fernly is only about 30 min. from Reno.

I'm hoping to get some model time in soon (and some forum time for that matter!)  Again, I apologize that I haven't been able to stay on top of the forums like I usually do.

espins1 wrote:

dupes wrote: Get out! That's awesome! Glad to see all of your hard work payed off! Gaah! I'm doing it again...hanging out on the forum instead of BUILDING! Thanks!  These forums are addicting!

You think?

I just started trolling and stumbled across your really sharp builds. Saddler, love that kitty. Camo is excellent. Dupes, that KT is going to be a wiener when done. Scott, congrats on the well deserved award. Been wondering where ya been.

Hey...look who (t)rolled by!

Glad you like the KT T-man...you're one of the few who have been exposed to it so far. Hope I can finish up the last half as well as the first part went. 

Ah, finally I get to post some progress pics! Here you go:

This is my 1/72 scale Dragon Panther with Zimm. I'm building it as a Panther used by Hans Malkomes Pz Abt 1, Pz Rgt 1, 1st Pz Div "LAH", Normandy, 1944.

I did the upper hull and turret first:



Then I did the roadwheels. This is the upper and lower hull test fit together:



It looks like she's ready for P/E and then paint. Thanks for looking and comments are welcome.

And especially, thank you to Lethal for the information!

Thanks Buffelhead, I will soon. Probably tonight. I want to put the P/E on it first. Pics coming soon! LOL!

Okay, here's my Panther with a Dunklegelb basecoat:





You can see where I missed alot of areas. My shop light broke so I was working in only the ambient/main room light at night. Couldn't see very much at all. Time to get that replaced. I'll get this touched up and move on.

More pics coming later. 

Thanks guys. Yeah I didn't see any of these spots because I was building at night in a semi dark room because my desk lamp had broken. These all showed up even to my naked eye in the bright sunlight of broad daylight. They're fixed now. I'll post more when I get more work done.

Thanks again for the great comments guys! 

Darn it Duke!!  Now you've got me itchin to finish mine that's sitting on the shelf!!. Its almost done...just a couple more hours work and its ready for paint!

Also, it's easier to paint the interior detail in and around the wheels without the tracks on.

Looking forward to seeing more progress done on this! Thanks Bufflehead! 

Hi all

I've eventually started my build, only assembled the wheels and the tracks so far.
200 indy tracks later:

Going to attempt Biffa's method of painting the tracks on the tank as opposed to off it.

I also noticed that I attached the wrong wheels directly behind the idler, should be the small ones (not sure of actual term) instead of the big ones. Oh well too late now.

Ernest-looks good-looking forward to seeing the painted product.

osjohnm-You're off to good start.  Keep on plugging away.

Scott-I'm bogged down in the day to day activities of life at the moment, along with too many GB's I'm trying to juggle.  I pulled out the Geprg Bose Dragon StuG last night...very nice and DETAILED kit....one of those kits that would be best worked on over the course of several months....therefore, switch my build back to Kerscher's Early Tiger-Tamiya 1/48.  I may pick up the Voyger PE kit.  I'm at that point where I need a 'quick win'.....

Thanks