Tamiya Panther ausf A "motorized"

Modeling Subjects Armor
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Hello all

This is my lates and definitely not my best work. This kit is an albatross. I was warned by some of you. I screwed up by gluing the upper and lower hull together prior to using the Modelkasted tracks. I WAS PISSED. The zimmerit is from Cavalier, the generic type, and some pieces had to used individually. As always all comments are greatly. Check out the links.

TigerII

http://www.kitpic.com/is.php?i=12451&img=DSCF0003.jpg
http://www.kitpic.com/is.php?i=12452&img=DSCF0004.jpg
http://www.kitpic.com/is.php?i=12454&img=DSCF0008.jpg
http://www.kitpic.com/is.php?i=12456&img=DSCF0014.jpg
http://www.kitpic.com/is.php?i=12458&img=DSCF0021.jpg
http://www.kitpic.com/is.php?i=12460&img=DSCF0026.jpg

2

looks great!

3

Great work.
I hope you learned something from this mistake.
Also if I may add, you need to adjust the tracks. In the second picture from the top, the tracks appear to be floating slightly.
[:)]

4

Great work tiger 2, I think its awesome!!

5

As the saying goes, live and learn. Still, it actually looks pretty darn good in the photos.

The weakest link (pardon the pun), would be the some areas of the track sag. I don’t know if there are any adjustment options available to you at this point. One possible solution would be to hide some to the areas where the tracks aren’t sagging perfectly, by hanging some skirts in the problem areas. A war wearly Panther A with an incomplete set of skirts was certainly a common enough sight, and considering some of the creativity used in repairing damage, you could even legitimately have mismatched camouflage.

Andy

6

Looks good!

7

You turned a rough kit into an impressive build. Nice work.

8

I would agree with Andy’s comments. That being said, if you repair a few consistency issues, you’ve got a really nice Panther there.

Regards,

Steve

9

Looks good, I agree about the tracks though.
Thanks for sharing

10

I want to thank you all for your comments and critiques. When I started to build this kit I was thinking about putting on some skirts but decided against it, but you never know. If I make a decision I’ll let you guys check it out. Again thanks

TigerII