You did good Ben !

WOW, nice build. Not sure how i missed this one. I think the shell damage looks very convincing.

Great work.

Thanks for all the replies ! and nice comments !

I'm surprised so many of you liked the shell damaged. Thanks !

She came out very nice Ben!  Camo job looks fantastic, weathering is spot on and I like the discrete paint chipping you did!  I'm glad she survived that shell hit too!!

Bravo,very nice finish,among other things I like the shell damage on the front

Yeah you did great on the exhaust!  The whole thing looks superb!  Nice work!

Great job Ben...love that shell mark. Well done all around from the tracks to the weathering

AWESOME BUILD THERE Ben.

Clay

Ohhhhh, great job there Ben!

Hey Guys,

I'm finally done the Jagdpanther ! 

Here are the pics

As you guys can see, I finally got around to making a half decent photobooth I think I did a good job 

The finishing touches done to the model were a good coating of mud (acrylic resin, paint, sand and pigments) and a nice RB models antenna. I also finished up the exhaust and added a non-penetrating hit on the front sloped armor slab. I think I did pretty good with the exhausts (was my first time).

Anyway, any comment or criticism is welcome ! 

Thanks

Looks great Ben, I really like the grime... came out well.  Zimmerit can be a bit scary at first, I left it off my first build which was King Tiger.  I'm actually going back and redoing it right now and just did zimm for the first time.  I used two different methods and found they both worked well.  First way was with Milliput stretched across it and wet down to thin it out.  Second I mixed Testors putty with plastic cement (about a 50/50 mix) and brushed it on with a old brush, this actually dried a bit slower then I thought it would and worked well.  Once I had the base on I used a small flat head screwdriver that I kept wet to put the grooves in.  Hope any of that helps if you decide to give it a try in the future.

Keep up the great work!

Zerk.

Ahh yes , that makes a big difference !

Hey guys,

Here are the promised pictures!

Remember it's still a work in progress. In one picture you can see the tracks. I added a rust wash. Also I added a 88mm shell for scale. Next update will be with tracks on and a nice coating of mud throughout. 

Enjoy,

Man, ANOTHER fine thread I totally missed!! Ben, your Jagdpanther is looking mighty fine, even without the zimmerit!  I've got this same kit and I hope I can do as good a job as you!

Hey guys,

I got an oil wash on today plus decals. I'll post some pictures tommorow !

I like those stripes !

Hey guys,

Paint is finally on! I did it all in a good old 3 hour marathon of pure airbrushing

I painted the 314 scheme. Looks pretty good to me!

I also started a bit of detail painting and chipping. The chipping was done with my custom track paint mix. It's 3 parts red brown, 2 parts black.

These are some of the road wheels (the PzIV road wheels are for a Nashorn)

Thats it for now. More updates coming soon!

wing_nut

Chalk up another vote for the striped camo here.  The dinging up technique looks good.  Don't worry about the zim.  You build for you.  Whenever I do something like that I make up a back story in my head to reconcile the whole thing.  Maybe during an engine overhaul the crew was bored and decided to chip off all the zim cuz they thought, and correctly, that it was a stupid idea anyway.  It could happen

Ya that's about right 

Chalk up another vote for the striped camo here.  The dinging up technique looks good.  Don't worry about the zim.  You build for you.  Whenever I do something like that I make up a back story in my head to reconcile the whole thing.  Maybe during an engine overhaul the crew was bored and decided to chip off all the zim cuz they thought, and correctly, that it was a stupid idea anyway.  It could happen

The others have pointed out the things that jumped out at me. Nice work on the JP, the striped pattern always looks great on these beasts!

Thanks for all the replies !

I'll see what I can do about that towcable. Now that I look at it it does seem a bit loose...

Thanks

Looks good.  It strikes me that the tow cables might be too long.  maybe check that?

Looking good Ben

Looks good . I'll be peeking in to see the paint scheme . Only thing i could be picky about is that the tow cable looks a bit loose in the middle and then tightly wound at the tow cable eye .

Nice work Ben! I personally haven't worked up the guts yet to ding up a model with a motor tool but it looks so good when it's done by someone like you that knows what he's doing

Good luck Ben.

Thanks for the replies guys! I will probably do the 314 scheme which is the striped-pattern. I have some spare number decals so ill fashion a 314 out of them !

I'll smooth the Shurzen out so it doesn't look too damaged.

Looks good but I'm with Eric - loose that bent Shurzen dude or take out some of that bend perhaps?

A striped-pattern JP is a good call too. I painted mine with a basecoat of Dark Yellow and applied stripes of Rotbraun and Olivgrun (Red/Brown and Green).

Dragon should provide suggestions in their instructions?

Hope this helps,

Ben

Great looking build, but the super bent schurzen plate isn't very realistic. They were very loosely attached, so it would have gotten knocked off before it got that bent.

I've seen many Jagdpanthers in the striped-pattern. Some in ambush.