Panthers - PSC - WW2V15012 - Platoon finished!

Hello everyone!

As promised here's the actual update of the day! The past weeks I've been working fairly hard getting these done after work. I really have a hard time in this heat and also painting 5 basically identical tanks at the same time really messes with my concentration, it gets slightly tedious painting the same things 5 times...

But anyway! I've managed to finish them and I'm very satisfied with the result.

If you've seen my previous posts about the test Panther, these pictures probably won't be that special because there's just 5 of them now :-p

Don't really have a lot more to say about these now, so lets look at some pictures!

Panther - 211 - Platoon Leader

Panther - 212

Panther - 213

Panther - 214

Panther - 215

And there we have it my second Panther platoon from Plastic Soldier Company have been finished! 

My next project will probably be my new Deathstroke figure and the rest of my Open Fire shermans, then we'll see after that.

Deathstroke - Knight Models

As usual comments, suggestions and questions are more than welcome! Would really like some feedback from this build :)


Chris

Bonus Picture

Panthers - PSC - WW2V15012 - Test vehicle finished

Hello everyone

Yet another small update today. Since I still haven't been able to get any proper work done, I decided I atleast could get the test panther finished. Actually I isn't totally finished since I'm probably going to do a bit of sod on the exhaust with my airbrush at some point, but otherwise I think its basically there.

Nothing much to say about the detail painting really, so I'll just show some pictures of the finished result.

If you have any questions please feel free to post them below :) constructive criticism is always appreciated aswell.

Hope you liked it :)

Chris

Panthers - PSC - WW2V15012 - Chipping + Rust - Test

Hello everyone

I've been painting a bit today, but it was simply to hot to do long sessions, so I only managed to do one tanks, which is just going to serve as my test vehicle. I'm trying out a few new things this time. I'm pretty happy with the result, but do feel that it could use a bit refinement. Hopefully the rest of the platoon will be even better. Chipping is never easy and way to easy to overdo, Less is always more, I'm yet to learn this it seems :-p

I used a sponge and a fine brush for the chipping. Before on previous builds I went dark chips first and then sand afterwards to sorta underline them. This time around I did the light color first and then colored in the dark afterwards using a fairly fine brush and a steady hand. I quite like the result, but as mentioned above, it needs some work still I think.

Colors used:

• Vallejo - Model Color 124 - Iraqi Sand
• AK Interactive - AK 711 - Chipping Color
• AK Interactive - Rust Streaks

After the chipping was done I painted some rust streaks from some of the larger chips and around some of the hatches and other details. Then using White spirit (or turpentine, just get an odourless one for gods sake!) and a small flat brush (could use any relatively small brush) I dragged and diluted the streaks. When doing the streaks wipe off most of the white spirit, the brush only needs to be moist, otherwise you will most likely just take it all off. For the 'pools' of rust wash around hatches etc. I didn't wipe of the white spirit, but just used it to dilute the pools to make them blend in a bit. I don't know if that description makes any sense :-p

And voila tank done for now. For this tank all the detail and accessory  are up next. But before I do that I still need to paint 4 more pairs of rubber tires...and a lot more scratches :-p

Until then enjoy some more pictures!

Commenst are more then welcome below.

Chris