Thanks guys. The real credit goes to the kit. With a few exceptions it really has gone together pretty well. Pre-planning and pre-painting parts have also helped. I'm doing the same with a Trumpy Stryker for the Rapid Recon Campaign.

Right now I'm bogged down with the tracks...which are foul language inducing. So I'm putting the kit on the back-burner for a bit so I can focus on a couple of other projects. I have really mismanaged my campaigns this year.

Hi all,

Paul Badman, John and Marco, thank you for your kind words.

John, where can I upload the pictures of finished model?

Regards

That T-90 is great !!

Upload pics HERE !

John,

Many thanks.

Regards

Hi there,

here is my T26E4 Super Pershing Pilot #1:-

Hope you all like it













Thanks John, cool campaign even though it cost me a few grey hairs at the start
When part 2 comes around I shall find something with a little
more add on armour but most certainly not from AE.. what they called again?






Paul

Thanks Paul !!!
There might be a Mk.II next year..

What a beauty that Pershing !! Congrats, great work !

Great Pershing Paul! Congratulations!

I'm afraid about my model to this campaign. People aroud here is very, very good!

I will start in midle july.

Cheers!

Marco

Ok finally I am finishing my first ever armor kit over in the sherman GB now I will enter my next one it will be the old Tamiya Panther A, and I will try homemade zimm because the other stuff is like 3x the cost of this kit.




First Work

Hi everyone, been away for some time due to a moving, but now that i have settled and the bench is ready i'm back on track. I see much progress is made.

Paul, your Pershing looks really good, although i think that the green background is doing your model great unjustice.

Eugene, that's a good kit you have there. Good luck with your zimm, i used Milliput to do some homemade zim for another campaign. What are you planning to use?

And here is the progress i managed to make so far with my Semovente. Still needs a lot.... Hopefully i'll manage to make some sandbags with some Milliput at the weekend.

Marco, John (Nito) and John (jkb),
thanks guys, as for the backdrop I have had the same mixed feelings . So I´ll have to get something soon, I´ll try blue I think.
Does it matter which shade it is?

John your Semovente is looking cool, when the sandbags go on it should look awesome, here some I made about 6 years ago for a Sheman:
They are miliput formed into shape and then I pressed and old sock (washed before mind) into them to give them some hessian type structure.









Paul

Hello all, Ive stalled. Alot, so much resin and PE to deal with. I will have to pick the kit back up soon, Just need to finish this Pz.Kpfw. II for a club. Hopefully its not destroyed in the process (terrible kit, so many parts, driving the club insane)

The T-90 is waiting for me to get in the groove. Essentially just have to finish the turret and then do all of the little clasps for the side stowage bins. Then tracks, some fit issues and paint!

Hi people!

Now it's official... I'll start the BMP.







I just started the kit, pics soon.

Cheers!

Marco

A nice kit and a plethora of aftermarket to boot. Will you be building the interior or are you not going to bother with it?

Marco, it'll be good to see your build. I currently have my BMP-3 on hold because of the tracks. Have you decided on paint scheme yet?

Hi Alex!

I'll paint it in plain green because I want to use it to load my MAZ, that will be 3 tone camo.

I liked your start.

2 BMPs? Great.

Cheers!

Marco

Alright Update from me. Got the zimmerit on, I used some ready made wallpatch then scribed the lines with an exacto and then sanded some so it wasn't to rough, and also started my base, and got the warp out of the barrel.

Marco, I'm probably going to go with green as well. I am really interested to see your build, especially how that PE looks. The kit goes together fairly well and the interior does have a lot of potential. The tracks are the devil. I like individual tracks and don't even mind separate guide teeth. But I really dislike this particular set they send. Maybe you'll fair better with them than me.


Nice work Eugene. The Zimm is really looking nice. I'm interested to see it once it gets painted.


Paul, Cheese cloth also makes a nice cloth texture on Milliput sandbags as well. I like the Sherman. I've ruined a couple of M4 hulls trying to add sandbags like that.

Did the first group of panthers in Italy have the red primer underneath or was it it that dark gray?? As of now construction is complete I am going to do the tracks tomorrow. I was gonna try getting it muddy on the insides but Ill do that on another build. going for paint practice and dusting on this my 2nd build ever and my first dio base.

OK here is base work.

Base now about 50%
Sprayed with krylon tan then washed with, Brown,gray ,black acryillics from michales and water. Did look like the videos I watched but i, ok with it for 1st one/ also saw that the beans were cracking, bummer. but now had to make it dusty and find an Italian poster in 1/35.






Ok now the panther.







Critiques Welcomed.
Euge

Hi people!

Great Panther Eugene, and great work on base.

Alex, I think plain green can show the details in the better way.

About the kit, yes, it is easy to build and the interior is almost done.

The tracks? I don't know and I don't want to think about it right now

Thank you for you suport!

Cheers!

Marco

Eugene;

[quote] Did the first group of panthers in Italy have the red primer underneath or was it it that dark gray?? [quote]

IIRC...

NO Panther emerged from the factory wearing dunkelgrau - all D and A and most G came off the line painted the 1943 regulation dunkelgelb RAL 7028. This 7028 base-coat was factory-applied over the original rot-oxide red primer generally applied to all "heavy metal" in German production at that time.

From this, any Panther in Italy, 1943 would be a dunkelgelb beast w/ or w/out additional brown and/or green camo application.

Depending on the Panther being modeled... IF it is an initial production vehicle, it would be a D, and most (I think all) D went to their initial combat debut at Kursk 1943 without factory zimmerit. Kursk survivors either went back to Nibelungenwerk for repair and refurb, or may have shipped "direct" to Italy. The Nibelungen crowd were zimmeritted after repair (and "over the original dunkelgelb base-coat" - I seriously doubt that these returned D were stripped to bare metal and re-primed before being zimm'd!). A new dunkelgelb base was then applied and the refurbed Panther went off to Italy.

Any D shipped post-Kursk direct to Italy would have arrived without zimm. Zimm may have been applied to these tanks by rear-area shops in Italy. In which case, the zimm again went on over the dunkelgelb (and over any other camo colors, too.) and the tank re-painted. In dunkelgelb base, natch!.

Ausf A and G made through AUG 1944 had factory zimmerit - applied over the r-o primer and followed by dunkelgelb base-coats. I would be willing to bet that no G had a field zimmerit job (G started production after factory zimm reg was put in place) - MAYBE some z was repaired at Nibelungen or... on an early refurbed G into mid 1944.

So... fairly certain NO dunkelgrau at any point on any Panther (other than initial prototypes from JAN 43, if even those). Chip zimm off a production D - reveal dunkelgelb and/or r-o primer and/or metal. Chip zimm off an A... reveal r-o primer and/or metal. Zimm'd G is as like A.

Hope I have this pretty correct (there will be some expert out there to nay-say something I put here, but I think I have it all down at this point ). Hope this helps!

Bob

Bob

Thanks for the help I appreciate it, will Testors Hull Red be a suitable primer for this, or does anyone know what a good red oxide primer be.

Eugene

Eugene,
Have a look here for your Italian posters, there is even some currency.

http://www.fcmodeltips.com/search/label/descargas%20downloads?updated-max=2013-02-04T12:44:00%2B01:00&max-results=20&start=20&by-date=false

Cheers Rob.