Practice Panther: the finished product

As promised, here are some pics of the Panther all finished.

So my justification for all this chipping and scratching is this is a survivor. The crew has been able to stay on the battlefield for month or two setting up and driving through dense woods, hence all the scratches from tree limbs and such.

In just about every reference picture I looked at there was at least one skirt panel missing so I had to cut one out.

And just for good measure I bent up the front fender a bit too.

Overall I'm very happy with it. I could have done a better job on the back exhaust but whose going to be looking at the back end anyway?

Most of the time we'll be seeing the business end.

This was a really fun build. I learned a lot in working through the techniques. I really liked how the airbrushing and chipping turned out. Apparently I'm better at that than I thought.

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Practice Panther pt. 2

So I'm going freehand with my NEW AIRBRUSH!!! Did I say I really like it? It even has my name on it!

Got the previous failed attempt stripped off and a new base coat of yellow, time to add the green.

Add the red next. Also did a little splatter of green to get some green dots on the yellow.

Looking good!
Then I added the yellow spots using a brush.

Now I'm going to practice my chipping.

Apparently I skipped photos of adding decals. Straight on to chipping. I started with the light grey and it really looks like I over did it. Just bear with me, it will all work out.

After the light grey I went back over all those spots again with a darker grey and it really toned it down quite a bit:

This hatch came out great!!!!

Let me show you a couple of shots of the turret, and incidentally the scratch across the number is just two dimensional using paint. Looks like a real gash to me.

That's it for this post. I'll post pictures of the finished product next time.

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