Panther Ausf. A - Warlord Games - WGB-WM-136

Hello everyone

It has been quite a while since I posted anything to this blog, but sadly I don't really paint a lot of historical miniatures at the moment. But recently I just wanted a nice and simple side project while working on something else, so I decided to paint this Panther that had been sitting on my shelf for years.

It's one of the old resin/metal kits from Warlord Games and it was just a joy to paint. I had a few years ago given most of my "historical tanks" paints away at my local club since I wasn't using them, so it was quite interesting having to mix everything to get something resembling the proper colours.

The camo pattern is done with freehand airbrushing, so overall this tank took no time to get done.

Anyway here are a few more pictures.

 This project really made me want to play some more Bolt Action, so should probably get on that :-D

Until next time
Chris

Panther G, Early - Tamiya - 35170 - Finished

Greetings everyone

My Panther Project is now finished, atleast I'm probably not going to add anything else to it or do more work on it, it has taken enough time as it is :-D 

I think it turned out pretty well considering how few 1:35 scale vehicles I have painted for a long time now. The tank and figure is painted and weathered with a combination of Ammo, AK and Vallejo paints and products. The tank it self is build basically out of the box with few additions of after market stuff (The Barrel, Engine grills and Zimmerit). The only thing I can say about the kit is that Tamiya is such a joy to build, sure it might not be as detailed as the newer Dragon kits, but considering that this kit is more than 20 years old I still think it's quite nice, and most importantly it fits together so well and takes no time to build (Think I did it in a few hours, applying the zimmerit took longer than building the entire tank :-p).

Anyway not much else to say except for I hope you enjoy the pictures.

Also here's a few close ups of the commander before he was inserted into the turret. It's a SS Panzer Commander from Alpine Miniatures :)

Hope you liked it, I sure enjoyed building and painting it, even though it took a lot of time... 

Until next time

Chris

Panther G, Early - Tamiya - 35170 - Small Update

Hello everyone

Very short update today!

Some months back I posted about a Panther G in 1/35 scale I was building and just wanted to show what it currently look like :)

Painting the tools at the moment, afterwards I also need to paint the commander and varnish everything somehow without fucking up the pigments :-p


Beside this I'm also doing a Jagdtiger and 2 Elefants for Flames of War, and hopefully I can get a post up about them soon (Just really want to finish this Panther since it's starting in annoy me :-p)



That's  it for now 


Chris

Panther G, Early - Tamiya - 35170 - Assembly

Hello everyone!

Last friday the Panther Campaign over at Armorama began and I've had this old Tamiya kit laying around for quite a while now, so I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to make it.

I did however decide to spice it up with a few aftermarket parts, I have previously build the Panther G late also from Tamiya, so I had a some idea for easy improvements.

I wanted to do a zimmerit coating, get a better barrel and some exhaust wents, and I ended up with the following parts.

• Zimmerit Coating Panther Ausf G 1/35 - Tamiya - B00A46BGGM
• 7.5cm KwK 42 L/70 PzKpfw V - Panther - RBmodels - 35B06
• 1/35 Early Panther G Grills Detailing Parts  - Airwaves - 35048

I could probably have done the zimmerit by hand, but I saw that Tamiya had actually made a kit for it, so I decided to try it out and to be honest it looks quite good. There is a few rough edges here and there, but I think with a decent paintjob you really won't notice :)

Assembly

Since this is a Tamiya kit it only took a few hours to assemble and I honestly have no problem with some lack of details compared to Dragon kits, when it fits together this nicely and still looks good :-p

I haven't glued on the tools, hatches or wheels because I want to be able to paint them separately. I'm still looking for a camouflage pattern to give it and any ideas or suggestions are more than welcome, I really love the look of replacement parts in Red primer or just Dunkelgelb so I might do a bit of that. I'm not going to authenticity just something that will be fun to paint.

Anyways let's have some pictures

I'm still waiting for my Exhaust went in the mail, but that is fine since I need to finish a couple of small FoW builds before I'll begin painting this kitty.

That's for now, stay tuned :-)

Chris

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