FINISHED PICS! -- Pg 6 DML ersatz M10 Panther OOB WIP

This one ROCKS!  Nice work overall, and probably your best weathering to date - complex and in context....super nice.

Rick

What else can one say but WOW!!!! That is one great model Doog! Does this mean we might start to see some American armor in your inventory now?

-Stephen

Nailed it square on the head doog.  Nice.

Evening

Awesome work as usual, you are the master

Mark

Bill, Nate, Tony, and Mike--thanks, guys; I do apreciate the comments!

Bill--"It doesn't just look like an ersatz that sat on its haunches until spring, somhow, it FEELS like it's been out in the elements."--Ahhh, now THAT's the kind of thing I was going for! Thanks for the great way of putting that!

Rick--"This one ROCKS!  Nice work overall, and probably your best weathering to date..." WOW, that's a great vote of confidence for me, hearing you say that! Thanks, man--I'll never stop pushing the MIG stiff which I think is so integral to the methods that I've adopted now! Thanks for that nice compliment!

David--"Master Jedi Modelling skills in full effect."--lol! Thanks, man! 

Stephen-- "Does this mean we might start to see some American armor in your inventory now?"--uhhhh.....mmmmm........maybe?!   lol! Seriously, though--you may..maybe I'll surprise everyone sometime soon?! Thanks for your comment! 

Marc, Andy, and Mark--thanks a lot guys, I do appreciate your compliments! 

Hmmm...what's next now? ..........

Like it? How could I NOT like it?

Sweet stuff here Karl. Those mud-caked tracks look great, and the overall effect on the glacis (especially) of the multitudes of weathering techniquies is spot on.

Wow well done doog, another great build, and a unique one too, I haven't heard of this tank untiul I saw its review in FSM.

I can see that its a captured german panther, but why did they added extra armor?

Thanks, dupes! I appreciate the 's! I worked hard on this sucka!

T-rex, the armor was added for disguising the tank; to alter its lines to look like an American M10, to try to sneak it behind American lines in the Battle of the Bulge. It really wasn't an attemp to "up-armor" the vehicle. Thanks for looking in, and for your compliments! 

Well Karl I give this one a perfect 10 and a gold of course. Now I have to start popping in on the Auto forum to keep up with your builds, a pleasure of course.

As for the wreck build goes, I remember you commenting on one of my first posts here and showing pics of your wreck. It was really cool and very well done. I would love to see you do another especially with your weathering technique. I'm all for a wreck GB whenever you are, that would be awesome.

I will be checking into the oils and pigments after seeing this fake M10 of yours. 

Rob

Doog......WOW! that is beautiful.

Bob

scratchmod wrote:

Well Karl I give this one a perfect 10 and a gold of course. Now I have to start popping in on the Auto forum to keep up with your builds, a pleasure of course. As for the wreck build goes, I remember you commenting on one of my first posts here and showing pics of your wreck. It was really cool and very well done. I would love to see you do another especially with your weathering technique. I'm all for a wreck GB whenever you are, that would be awesome. I will be checking into the oils and pigments after seeing this fake M10 of yours.    Rob

That's anice comliment from a guy as talented as you.

I'm leaning toward doing another car--a modified dirt track car, and then maybe a Model T or A believe it or not! I think I"m going to do the oldie as an old, dusty farm car--kinda like a medium-weathering thing with much dust and fading. I'm contemplating the technique to use as we speak! 

Not sure what armor I"m going to do next--might be something completely off-the-wall and unexpected? I had a good time changing up my routine here, with the OD finish. Maybe I'll go for a modern tank? 

I have to imagine that you would kick my butt in a head-to-head "Rust-off", lol! You are the man when it comes to wrecks!

Hey Karl,although the subject matter doesn't really interest me, your skills never cease to amaze. That is some of the finest weathering I have seen. Great work! Now, when are you going to do a wingy thingy????? ( I remember that last one met a horrible fate)

Jester75 wrote:

Hey Karl,although the subject matter doesn't really interest me, your skills never cease to amaze. That is some of the finest weathering I have seen. Great work! Now, when are you going to do a wingy thingy????? ( I remember that last one met a horrible fate)

I intend to get to that eventually...

Thanks for your comment, friend! 

Mansteins revenge wrote:

Very nice finish, doog...some very cool and intense color variations going on here with the green...Me likes......perfect dio piece...

I appreciate the kudo's! If I ever do put it in a dio, you'lll have to refer me to some appropriate US G.I. figures to go in it!  (maybe you can paint them for me too? lol!)

Karl, wow, seriously wow, theres a gold medal there for you regardless of where its entered. The idea of a dio. with G.I's is great. Maybe even trying to recreate one of the wartime photos would be cool.

Again just great.

Terry.

Thanks, terry--I'm going to try to put this in the "OOB" category at SYRCON tomorrow--I took out the wiring in the light for that reason.

I'm thinking that SMJ's gonna kick my butt all over Syracuse though... lol!

AMAZING build Karl!!! the weatering is to good!

Spectacular work as always doog!

Orion, Will, and doc, thanks so much for the comments!

This took a second place at SYRCON today!