And as i left her in my garage on the bench awaiting my return.

Antonio - that looks fantastic, cant wait to see it finished.

Chris - Paint is looking good, I hope mine ends up looking half as good.


Lots of really nice builds still going on, hope we all finish in time.


Here are some updates on mine. Unfortuneately not as far along as I had hoped due to xmas shopping and other holiday stuff.







As you can see the hull has been glued together, went together suprisingly easy and I painted and installed the fans and vents, still need to add one vent cover though. For the primer I ended up using hull red then going over it with a light coat of red. It turned out a bit darker than I might have liked. But I think it is within reason based on pictures that i have seen.

This portion was going along very smoothly and I was content that all had gone well.....until I relised I had forgotten to put in the periscope glasses... ... so I will have to fix that before moving on.

Next I will be putting together the PE tool racks. Hopefully I can get that done by sunday evening. I hope to have all the building done by wednesday the 19th.


James

James

Nice Start to your panther, I have a question on the left rear fan, why is the fan elevated?? Sorry if dumb question but im new to armor.

Euge

Eugene it is a feature of G model Panthers

It is a heater feature for the crew compartment.










~ Jeff

way way back i entered this campaign, with an old dragon panther ausf d, i was quite enthousiastic to enter this campaign and had fun building the d, but then real life kicked in and due to my dad passing away and some other rl stuff building had to be moved to the back bench for a while, which turned out to be a lot longer then a while.
time is short, but as this campaign was the one i was the most hyped up about and i have some days off in the comming weeks, i would like to try and finnish it, not with the d i started it with cause of some nasty business involving the panther and his real life counterpart the domesticated cat, but if its ok with you guys i would like to make an attempt with an icm bergepanther with some aber grills and some atak zimmerit.
in case you ok it the starting photos are below





kind regards,

Remco

Remco due to your fathers passing and Eugene due to commitments which are up to you if you wish to say what that was, I am willing to extend this campaign by 1 month to make sure you finish. I hope that will be enough time for you both and any lagging at the moment to build and paint your models.

Thank you Darren for the extension, i went ahead and made a small start by cleaning up one on the zimmerit pieces, and now its time for some sleep so i can get up nice and early tomorrow to start putting glue to plastic

Some major progress with this update. The two sides of the suspension (minus tracks) are pretty much done. Both the idlers and sprockets had to be attached with gap filling CA glue as their fit on their respective pins was very sloppy (loose). You'll notice some areas that need a small touch up but that should be a snap compared to trying to paint the rubber portion on all 32 road wheels! Did I mention I love Braille Scale!







After the touch ups I'll get the tracks on and the bulk can be assembled and the camo can begin.

Cheers,
Jan

after wash and added paint chip...still long way to go

Chris,

Really nice job on the Panther. Looking foward to seeing the completed model.

Kevin

I have everything assembled and painted except for the jack and some periscopes that are giving me trouble. Some weathering and she will be finished.


Nate

Your green machine looks nice Nate

I thought I posted my initial kit picture previously, but I guess not now that I hunt for it.

I started this Tamiya 1/35 Panther G about 6 weeks ago and have gotten close to the painting stage by now (pics of that later - tonight or tomorrow).

OK, let's try that again (and I still think i posted this previously, somewhere back in the 70+ pages).

And here is where I am at with the model right now:


Basically OOTB with the addition of engine screens. The turret sides suffered from some shallow sink marks, an unusual defect for Tamiya, but easily rectified.

Looks good to me Vance.

i was planning to build the icm bergepanther out of the box, with the exeption of some atak zimmerit and some grills, but today i found myself in germany for work close to the location of the store of sockelshop.de and after wandering through the shop for a bit i was overcome by something and came home with some goodies to make it look a little better



not to much just hopefully just enough
apart from this:
tank workshop radiators
eureka towing cables
friul's
so e.t. models etch
rb models tow hooks
and some panzer art spare wheels

i will also plunder some of the spare round grilles from the ausf a which is in my stash and probably some tools and random things from my sparesbox

here's a little bit of progress, i must say i really like the fit of the atak resin parts.

I will say this for your Renco "you believe in making a lot of work for yourself" Good luck getting it finished.

why do something the easy way when you can make it more complicated

I finally got the tracks on the Panther but as normal it took longer than anticipated. The track length measured out about the same as the instructions but at that length they barely fit and there was no sag, they were tight, and it didn't look right. Stretch, test fit, stretch, test...

Once they were on and loose enough they had to be fixed in place. I glued the bottom run first and then bit by bit worked my way around the sprockets. The idlers were another story as they appeared to be a bit too wide to fit between the guide horns. A bit more sideways stretching this time. To glue the top run I used several pairs of small standard tweezers as sort of "reverse clamps" to push the track on top of the road wheels until the glue dried.

The upper hull is just dry fit, the rubber areas are touched up but the track needs further painting.





A friend of mine was gracious enough to part with an engine compartment interior from his spares box so I got a base coat on that.



Once the engine area is finish painted and installed the hull halves and rear plate can be attached. Camo should begin shortly after that.

Cheers,
Jan

i am trying something i read somewhere on the internet, can't remember where, but i connected friul links with thin clothes pins (diameter 0.53mm). they fit quite tight and you get some sort of end cap. I would like some opinions from the panther nuts on here on what they think, are the caps to big?

let me know what you think.

Hi Guys
James I'm running!
I glued some PE,tools and equipment.I replace plastic clamp with copper wire.





I tried to 'rust' Friul track soaking them into to water but it's need a long process.



I hope to start painting tomorrow.
cheers
Antonio

Remco; I have used the pin method and I am happy with the results.

Antonio; That is a great looking build in the works keep it up.

I had hoped to dust her up some more but I'm going to have to call her finished.

A great campaign!

Nate