Well, now that I have a quality digital camera of my own, I retook pictures of the Panther that I completed in September of 2002. To reiterate, I used; FULL Aber update, Aber sideskirts, Cavalier zimmerit, Jordi Rubio gunbarrel, Moskit exausts, Fruilmodellisimo tracks and a Tank Workshop partial interior. I used Tamiya acrylics to paint the base colours. The drybrushing was done with XtraColor emamels. Weathering was done with a light overspray of buff on the running gear and mud was simulated using squadron putty stiuppled with a tooth brush and painted varying earth tones. Paint chips were made using a method that I think is accurate which is having the Camo (green and brown) that was overpainted on the dark yellow show the sign of the dark yellow were scratches and other such abbrasions occured. This was done using XtraColor desert sand, slightly lighter than dark yellow, applied with a piece of stretched spruce in a vice pin. For additional weathering, pastel chalks and Burnt Umber (the versatile colour) were used.
The base that the kit is on was made from florists foam, paintbrush bristles, plaster and dirt.
Hope you like,
Andrew

Very good looking Panther!! I was thinking it was going to be an informative topic when you posted "411" though..lol

Andrew,
Great work! I really like camo scheme. If you'd like to submit these images to me I can place them in the gallery and as an OnDisplay feature sometime soon.

Cheers,
Jim

WOW !
Great model, Now I see the value of PE parts and what everyone has been talking about. Love the paint job too...

very nice

Extremely well done! I especially like the exhaust grille detail, bent skirt armor, and the elephant grass...

Excellent, Oberst, before, we got the less good quality pics. I know the Panther was good, but till the clear pic come out this time. I realize it's THAT GOOD!!!!!

Excellent!

Wow!!!!

"Da Punkster" has done some beautiful work here. Good job.

nice kitty i might let it play with mine hehehehe good work andrew...stug

Niiiice Pig Brother

Sweet wanted to jump in and take her for a drive.
One question is that Zimmerit easy to apply

Very nice pictures - I must say the pictures are great. The Panther is wonderful and I love the pictures. Great photography.

Excellent Work!! Nice pic's too, although not all of them showed up for me. What kind of camera did you use? How many megapixels? Keep the kits coming!



Andy

Ok, nice kit but I believe this Rivet review Board" was there to give some constructive criticism?

Well in that case there are a few thinks I must point out:

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Snik, I just can't think of something, I think she is a beauty, nice job, snik

Really impressive work. The deatil and painting are excellent and the little dio base all tie it together!
A figure or two would really help to bring it all alive now and show the scale!

Thanks for all of the comments. :-)
The camera I used was a Toshiba PDR-3310 with 3.2 megapixels.
As for figures, I cannot say that I am into doing them and I believe that they would take away from the realism.
Thanks again,
Andrew

See those Canadian winters are good for some things. Too awesome Oberst Andrew. The open hatches just beg for examination, now if I could come up with a drop light for taking interior shots with a optical cable extension lense we'd be in business. Great Zimmermit and finishing technique, damn, can't find anything wrong with it. What's next?

Thank you Jay, you are very flattering.
The interior is a partial one from the Tank Workshop and is not bad.
I would love to show you the inside but, as you said, it is impossible to photograph.
Thanks again,
Andrew

You had to go and enter this in the Cheapest hobbies contest.. and here I used to think I had a chance..



Bye the way........Great job..

This is the reason I'm a AM nut....love it! You,my dear counter part of interior intelligence , are the very thing that AM people are happy to say they have for a customer! There is no such thing as "too much"! I have written your name down as "Homo-PE-superior". Onward, to the hobby shop!

Da Punkster strikes again! Nice kitty cat you got there! I agree that some figures will really bring this one to life! Keep 'em coming!

Great work!
Congrat´s

Here is a pic that didn't make it into the original post. It shows how well the Moskit exhausts look:

Andrew

Da P. Man,

Is the exhaust easy to use and weather? On the other hand, the zimmerit you did is about the best I ever seen. How do you do that?

Dave, the exhausts, although tough to see here come a natural burnt umber colour and I just added some rust coloured pastel chalk to them. Thanks for the comment about the zimmerit, it is something that I cannot explain though, it is just talent

Andrew

You just don't want to share. talent my Panther rear!!!!