Hi guys

I would welcome some opinions on my work so far with this Dragon Panther Ausf A.

I originally posted this yesterday but stuck it in the armor forum by mistake so excuse the copy and paste

It is built mainly out of the box, with a massive thanks to Ron Hayes for donating to me a "The Show Modelling" photoetch set which really boosted the details.

Painted with a majority of Vallejo AIR acrylics, the decals and marking options are from the box however I cut them up and rearranged them to fit into same zug as some of the panthers famously photographed on the Normandie Archive after Operation Cobra. I used abteilung and artists oils in the early weathering stages, but no pigments yet.

For the tools I decided to ignore the "accepted" colours and add those which I felt gave me better contrast against the paintwork - I chose this to focus on style and looks rather than anything else.

anyway enough ! time for some pics





















thanks for looking comments and suggestions much appreciated

Jon

Looks very nice. Very clean. I would throw some rust on it and maybe add a little paint chipping. Great for a factory fresh model, though.

you need to view the full size images mate, there is loads of chipping and grime! it's far from factory fresh... I think the pics being squashed up has lost the details.

My chipping is very small and delicate, as much "in scale" as I could get, that probably explains why you can't see it.

Try these links instead

http://i362.photobucket.com/albums/oo66/jon_m4shermandio/mid_tool_update_1.jpg

http://i362.photobucket.com/albums/oo66/jon_m4shermandio/mid_tool_update_2.jpg

http://i362.photobucket.com/albums/oo66/jon_m4shermandio/update1.jpg

http://i362.photobucket.com/albums/oo66/jon_m4shermandio/update3.jpg

Jon,

Your pictures here don't do your kit justice. The photobucket images really show your fine work. Very impressive.
Thanks for sharing,

Darryl

This is real nice work Jon, as mentioned above the original photo does not do your kit justice as you have a load of subtle detail on that cat. I also like your choice to go with contrasting colors on the tools as they work well with the way that you painted the rest of the Panther. Makes me want to dig out my Tamiya kit and have a go at it...

thanks guys,

I can see how matt thought it was factory fresh when you consider how small the pics are to fit onto the forum. Even the linked images are kind of small by today's standards, but I'm stuck in the past using 1024x768 as my standard size

Perhaps next time I'm doing some photos I'll leave them a little bigger. For some reason I've made my details as small as possible... and then done the same with my pics so you can't see anything....total facepalm.

thanks for your comments - and thanks for straining those eyes to pick out the details!

"Less is more" Jon

No need to go over board, subtle weathering looks realistic.

Over the top chipping and rust looks stupid,

Your work looks great !! Well done mate

Cheers

Paul

I agree with Paul. The subtle weathering you've done is top-notch. I really like what you're doing with this kit.

- Steve