Here is my interpretation of the Panther G. This is the Dragon Smart Kit which is a very good kit. Not much PE parts but well defined plastic parts. The level of detail is most impressive and builds very easily. Panthers are not my favorite armor and I didn’t enjoyed the build as I expected. I think you must love the subject to appreciate building a model. So here it is OOTB with some washes and drybrushing.
Yann,
I like what you’ve done. The Camo is Superb. Really a nice job.
[tup] Exquisite.
Beautifully [:D] done.
Looks totally real [#toast] to me.
[%-)] My only critique is two questions.
[X-)]
Whatever the case. [swg]
In “MY” book,
this is what “professionally done” means.
Steve
Nice work Yann. [tup]
Answer to question 1.) It looks like it is not touching the track, you’re right. It went that way when I handled it probably.
Answer to question 2.) I didn’t know about that. Like I said, I was not particularly in love with this tank so I didn’t make indepth research. So what you say is all the wheels that are close to the hull are bare metal?
Thanks for pointing this out to me and many thanks for your comments.
Looks great to me! Just the right amount of weathering, your weathering is perfect! [8D] [tup] [tup]
You nailed it buddy…I’m sorry you didn’t enjoy it, but we are! Great job, superb weathering too…
Steve
Thank you all for your comments.
What I found bizarre about the Panther is the way the turret is blocking the doors. In order to open the hatches, the turret must be pointing straight forward otherwise, there is always a portion of the turret blocking a hatch. IMHO it could be very dangerous if the fire catches on while firing. How would they escape? That is one of the reason why I don’t particularly like that tank. Don’t get me wrong, the kit was awesome. But the tank was not appealing to me.
But listening to your great comments make me like it a little bit more … I think it’s not the first time.
Thanks
Here ya go.
[:)] Payback for the Pla-doh!
Kinda blurry but you get the idea.
Just the center wheels (both sides of each roadwheel)
The track horns rub against the metal of the wheel keeping it constantly polished.
Believe me, your build still looks super.
Just thought you might want to know about that.
Steve
LOL
I cannot see how I can fix this now but if I ever make a Panther again (which i doubt) I’ll recall this.
Awesome build Yann[:)] Like usual, very impressive on the painting/weathering job! [tup] A+++
You can always make a Jagdpanther next time. [;)] You don’t like Panther’s? [:O] I know someone who can take that off of you if you have nowhere to put it. [:-^]
Super build. The camo and weathering are just great. I think you need to to do more. Hehehe
Wow, incredible work! I have a few questions for you, sorry to take up your time with the questions of someone new to modelling, but theres always someone who knows a 100 times as much as you on this forum, but I am about to start my first tank, and wanted too know a couple things. First, how do you get your weathering, rust and paint to get that dark, faded extremely smooth look, is it just lots of washes, and is it posible to get anywhere near that nice of a look without an airbrush? Lastly, what is your method for tracks? it looks like a dark basecoat, with a drybrush of gunmetal to show the parts that are worn to a polish from contstant contact?
Sharp build. Real nice wear and tear.
Excellent work Yann!!!
Will
looks beautiful yann the cammo is very good and weathering set it off perfectly im currently working on the old italeri panther ‘d’ kit for the group build and i gotta say panthers dont really set me off too much either, maybe its just that theres a lot of them getting built right now becouse of all the recent releases i dunno, again you have done a wonderful job on this one kinda puts my little old italeri kit to shame now heh.
hey yann[:D]-- regardless of how you feel about this panzer personally, you did a superlative job representing it!![tup][yeah]-- the panther in all its varients is one of my personal top 3 favorite tanks, and i really enjoyed viewing what you have done with it-- awsome,realistic tough lookin tank!!!-- and the camo job is the frosting on cake-- i love it!— treadwell
First of all, thank you for your comments, second, do not see me as an expert cause I started modeling just a few months ago and what I’ve learned, I’ve learned it here on this forum. So credit goes to all of you guys again.
Now, for weathering, it would be very difficult in my opinion to achieve such results without an airbrush. I know how you feel though cause I didn’t had any when I made my one or two first builds, but then I bought that cheap Testor’s mighty mini airbrush with compressor set at Walmart for only $70 which is a damn good deal. What you see there is the result of that airbrush cause I didn’t use my new Paasche on it at all. So don’t fool around with paintbrush and get an airbrush. Only a few masters can get such results with a regular brush and I don’t know any of them. The faded look as been achieved by lightly airbrushing some Tamiya acrylic “buff” all over the place and then I did the same thing in definite spots to simulate stains from rust and/or dirt.
The tracks were all painted with Tamiya acrylic “brown jgsdf” and then drybrushed with metalic grey. A subtile black wash was also applied to accentuate the depth. The drybrushing technique is quite easy to do on tracks, just have to rub the paintbrush on raised details. Remember that you must paint the whole track of the color you want to see in the crevasses of the track to drybrush the other color over it afterward.
Hope this help and good luck with your next models.
Guntech: Thanks for the good note!
Tigerman: The Jagdpanther is on my wish list for sure, which one do you recommand? And thank you for your kind words.
matthew and will: Thanks guys for your comments.
Biffa: thank you much. I’m sure you’ll make that Italeri kit to look like a masterpiece, can’t wait to see it.
Treadwell: I’m glad to hear such comments from a Panther lover, thanks.
Really nice job, and really nice kit.