on the panther dragon seemed to have already put weld seams in the model. however, they are sunken in mabye that's how they manufacter their models. i have never built a dragon AFV before. i always thought the weld seams came up over and were raised if you know what i mean. how were they. if anyone could tell me that would be great.

Hi. Good observation here. I'm looking at some photos in the book "Panther" by Uwe Feist and Bruce Culver and see it both ways, depending on just where the welded section is located. It definitely looks 'sunken' in on the upper plate areas and turret pieces, but sometimes, esp. on the lower hull areas it looks higher than the surrounding plate. Of course all the small details that are welded on the main plates have that 'ridge' of weld around them. So this would seem to me to be different types of welding methods used.


Don't believe I have ever saw or read anything on the German methods of welding on their AFVs of this time period, and since I know next to nothing about welding in general, I really can't say one way or the other on different types of welding techniques used.

I've seen articles around describing all kind of methods to add detail or depth to weld seams and such on models, but personally speaking have never tried any of them.

And if you are adding a Zimmerit coating to them, this covers up most of the weld marks anyway, except on the Ausf. A or late Ausf. G models.

Hope this adds something to the subject, but am not sure. Ha!

Take care, sgirty