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Cold Panther
- Thread starter moon puppy
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That is my reason for avoiding PE zimmerit paste sheets. Unless you anneal the metal and really make it conform, it will not look good. Use a thin rolled out sheet of epoxy putty to cover the MG ball or I may dig up a leftover Italeri with zimmerit part which is better than nothing.
I am with James, epoxy cement is the way to go for the working time it allows. Fill in seams with epoxy putty.
Regards,
I use it, but I'm old. :laugh:
Gunfighter45
Member
Holy Spot Putty Batman !!! :woohoo:
I guess that makes me old too.
I guess that makes me old too.
I used the cell phone camera to get some shots, figure to get everything on the bench. here's where I am with the Panther.
see what I mean about the gun port, now do I cover it and try to blend or just pop the offending PE off and go from scratch?
see what I mean about the gun port, now do I cover it and try to blend or just pop the offending PE off and go from scratch?
Gunfighter45
Member
I'd try blending in the seams on the MG cover, overall it looks good.
If the seams still won't blend in, then pop the cover and putty it. Tryin
match the surrounding zim might be a bit tricky.
Mike
If the seams still won't blend in, then pop the cover and putty it. Tryin
match the surrounding zim might be a bit tricky.
Mike
Terry I did not anneal the PE, probably should have on the gun port piece. I'll pop it off and work with it again.
Mike you're right about blending it in with the other Zimm, though there could be a great deal of battle damage to that area to hide any issues. Or a tarp..
Mike you're right about blending it in with the other Zimm, though there could be a great deal of battle damage to that area to hide any issues. Or a tarp..
Dragon tracks will be on their way along with Monroe Perdu armor skirts with hangers and Ultracast spare roadwheels.
Regards,
Regards,
Thanks Saul, but this scheme doesn't have the skirts installed. Guess I could do it anyway, or do another Panther at some point...The spare wheels will be nice addition! Thanks! 
Does this fit the campaign?
AndyFettes
Master at Arms
is it just the colours youre after ?
Smarty pants mode on :
You have a G and that looks like a picture of an A even though it says G by looking at the angle of the side armour However I could and invariably am mostly wrong
Smarty pants mode off :
:zen
Smarty pants mode on :
You have a G and that looks like a picture of an A even though it says G by looking at the angle of the side armour However I could and invariably am mostly wrong
Smarty pants mode off :
:zen
It is a G. If the skirts are missing, they were torn off. This means having metal examples to twist.
Or, you can build it before they were twisted off. One thing I am sure of, the barrel was not dark gray with camouflage.
Here are two panthers at the outskirts of Riga, Latvia, from Robert Michulec's book on the 4th Panzer Division...
Regards,
I've looked a couple of times at these Panthers and can't really see the differences, I know the gun mantle was different on some models but I can't see the differences on the hulls.
Yeah Andy, the colors and scheme is what I'm after on this. I'm not trying to make an exact copy of this subject because it may not be a correct drawing of the subject itself. What I'm aiming to do here is a fare representation of a Panther that may have looked like this in the 4th PzDiv in someplace cold along the Russia border.
Saul I kinda figured the gun would not have been grey, I remember Laura talking about how the Panthers were never painted grey so how could the gun have been?
Yeah Andy, the colors and scheme is what I'm after on this. I'm not trying to make an exact copy of this subject because it may not be a correct drawing of the subject itself. What I'm aiming to do here is a fare representation of a Panther that may have looked like this in the 4th PzDiv in someplace cold along the Russia border.
Saul I kinda figured the gun would not have been grey, I remember Laura talking about how the Panthers were never painted grey so how could the gun have been?
Even a replacement barrel would not be gray. The gun was treated with a dark gray primer designed for high temperatures but it was painted before delivery. The only dark barrels I find in photographs are discoloration from heat (just a darker shade of the overall color) and a few prototypes with guns not ready for service use.
Regards,
What Saul said, and remember the Panther had a 75mm gun which, correct me if I'm wrong, not common among other German tanks.
The 70 caliber long 7.5cm gun was used by the Panther, Jagdpanzer IV, and E-25.
Regards,
