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Armor/AFV: Large Scale
1/16 and Larger Armor Modeling
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Building Field of Armor 1/6 Panther G
BigTanksofAmerica
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Posted: Friday, October 05, 2012 - 03:54 AM UTC
Here are some pictures of me building the Field of Armor Panther G in 1/6 for a customer.

Getting the boxes I started to unpack the parts and sort them out...













Hull sheet metal sprayed in red primer like the original.

Plasticbattle
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Posted: Friday, October 05, 2012 - 04:15 AM UTC
Looks promising. My work bench wouldn´t probably be big enough to lay out this one.
BigTanksofAmerica
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Posted: Friday, October 05, 2012 - 02:40 PM UTC
I used a shopping cart and a large piece of plywood on it, leveled by another piece of wood...
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BigTanksofAmerica
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BigTanksofAmerica
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BigTanksofAmerica
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Petro
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Posted: Thursday, November 01, 2012 - 01:05 PM UTC
Pretty cool.
How much will this weigh when complete?
BigTanksofAmerica
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Posted: Thursday, November 01, 2012 - 03:42 PM UTC
It will be about 20KG or 40lbs
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Posted: Monday, November 05, 2012 - 03:54 PM UTC
Very interesting; waiting to see more.
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Posted: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 - 03:45 AM UTC
That's a big one~
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BigTanksofAmerica
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Posted: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 - 02:31 PM UTC


That was my first attempt that I did like NOT !



After way more weathering and fading and other detail work it looks like this in the finished version:






BigTanksofAmerica
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Posted: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 - 02:34 PM UTC






Note the dents in the side skirts are from real .22 lr bullets that could not penetrate the steel





Now that the cats were out to play I am finished here with my little introduction the the Field of Armor 1/6 Panther G.

Feel inspired to build one yourself, it was not that hard at all !
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