anyone have any tips on how to mask and paint the cammo on a late model Panther G?

Rangers Lead the Way

A little more to the question would help.

Tanks themselves are not masked. The camo pattern was up to the individual crew or maintenance team. Look at reference material, like Squadron/Signal, or this site, etc. You will see the Panther G was typically painted an overall "panzer" yellow with overspray of green and/or red brown. There is some question as to whether some very late war G's may have been painted Panzer Grey with red-brown over spray.

For modelers typically the use of an airbrush will accomplish the camo look rendered on real tanks. If you don't have an airbrush try dry-brushing the contrasting colors over the panzer yellow. this looks a great deal better than just painting 3 colors from the bottle on to the tank model.

Finally, if this is your attempt at late war German camo, try the pattern on a piece of scrap plastic or a "test" model tank. Once you have a pattern you like reproduce it on your masterpiece.

Best of luck.

This is my first tank model, going from warships to tanks is going to be a bit of an adjustment. Ive done the dark yellow color already (without an airbrush) and the red-brown with little success. i think im a bit afraid to try the dark green only to find out that didnt work as well. i guess if you dont succede, try, try, try again.

Rangers Lead the Way

Josh

I use an airbrush to paint my camo schemes.. I also use the paint reference in the instructions on how to lay out the camo pattern.. #:-)

Hi IronPanther,

Welcome to the glourious side of modelling. ARMOR!!!

basicly masking tape has very little use for painting armor models. the only occassion I can think of is when you are doing some very late war hard edge geometric camo schemes. which is very rare the case.

and you don't have to worry about overspraying, in armor painting, over-spraying is beautiful.....

For the Panther I did, see the Gallery, I did a whole lot of masking, I masked the entire camo job with masking tape. you should use the colours dark yellow, Olive green and Brown from Tamiya for an early Panther. If it is ia late Panther then the base coat could be the Green or the base coat could be red-oxide primer. On late Panthers, I have seen in my reference, that they usually have a hard edge, broad, diagonal line camoflauge. The Panther's Camo colour had to follow a forumla of coverage so that 70%(?) of the vehicle was covered. You can mask this type or scheme or you can airbrush it freehand.


Take Care,


Andrew