This is amazing. I'm gonna use this technique for my king tiger. It's annoying seeing tutorials on RU-vid where they use like 8 different washes and pigments
Your video is by far the best video for this kit on RU-vid and your model is also the best on Tamiya´s Panther Ausf. A I`ve seen. Realy cool. Keep it up!!
Great result. This is a quick easy build kit and a cheap buy. The hooks on the turret top edge - I’ve been searching Pinterest for a real example with these hooks and can’t find one. I’m building this kit now and will need to decide whether to remove the hooks and putty the holes. I like your paint job. Sometimes the krauts simply painted over the hull equipment and spare tracks when they painted the hull camo - I’ll probably copy your example and have the equipment painted without camo.
My friend owns the model shop round from my house he got a load of these old tamiya kits in from some private auction all still sealed from an attic the previous Modeller had passed away so there on on sale for £15 each as long as they get built! I think that's very fair and a great way to carry on the modeller's memory I picked up the panzer 4 Ausf D that was £10 but will definitely build it!
By the way, for the newbies out there. The Bovington museum tank is a Panther G (late version). The Tamiya model that scalemodelling76 is building is a Panther A (mid version). This is the first tank I ever built (not as cool as yours though)
+Trai Khg The Bovington tank is a bit of a 'maverick'. It was built just after the war by the factory workers, but under British army supervision. The British were interested in how the Panther was produced, so they had about five built.The chassis was to Panther G standard but the turret was a type A one that must have just been lying around in the factory. The odd camouflage scheme applied is said to be because not much Dark yellow paint was available, so they applied what they had in stripes.. over the red primer.
I know his is an older video, but I wanted to comment on your use of a mix of rubber and metal wheels, cool idea and it looks great. I think I will have to do the same on one of my upcoming AFVs. ; ]
Beautiful Panzer V... :) :) I hope to get one built in 1/72 later this year, but at the moment I'm busy building Fw 190's and other Luftwaffe aircraft, and will do so for another couple of months I think,.. :)
Thank you, as for the wash I'm not sure how you could make it because I bought it from a local model shop. Sorry I couldn't help but I use oil washes now which aren't to expensive and give you the same results you could do some research on them ! Thanks again !
Thanks for this video, building this as my first AFV Scale Model. Enjoyed building and painting it so far apart from the tracks ! How did you join and attach yours ?
+Stephen Sanders no problem, glad you like my video. As for the tracks I think I heated up a flat head screwdriver and melted the pins down like the instructions suggest and then I just put a bit of superglue over the pins. Hope that helps !
3:00 YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME, Seriously you used a song from the EPIC game Sudden Strike (The original first game from the 90's) Fuck yes dude, i love that song so much time playing that game when i was young, commanding armies of all sides to fight in awesome battles. Dude really nice that you put that song in there mate blew my mind !! awesome video man ;D
OberonsonPB thanks. To be honest I must of re-painted it three times in the bovington scheme but it just didn't look right I also questioned the existence of the camo scheme I couldn't find any research material so I just played it safe and went for the box camo.
It is a great looking model. Your right about the divisional markings. The yellow one on the drivers side is the 3rd panzer division 1943 and the skull head on the radio operators side is 3 ss panzer divison.
Paweł Chrześcijański thank you ! As for the wash on this particular model i used Flory models clay based wash which is pre mixed in the bottle which personally i don't like , right now however i use Migs abteilung oil paint diluted with odorless thinner from Ak interactive this is much better because you can make a wash as thin or as thick as you want you could use artist oil paint and just any odorless thinner . Hope this helps !
Hi there great vid,do you have a gap between the top half and lower half of the chassis ? Sort of just above the top of the tracks.when I mate my top and bottom half the chassis together there is a gap in between,it won’t be seen but I was wondering if this was normal
Well the rear idler wheel is off the tank, I assume because he couldn't get it on after gluing the rubber band track. No reason to be rude. Where's your work? Let's go critique.
Hi. I'm new to modelling. I just want to ask what did you use for the wash? How to do it (even with other brands)? I'm just going to build my first model and would appreciate if you could give advice about washing. Thanks.
+Paul Dacpano hello sorry for the late reply ! For this model I used a sludge wash from flory models which is a sort of local model shop here in the UK but currently I'm using Mig oil washes in the black tubes and I thin that with AK interactive odourless thinner which I find fantastic, well worth the buy . If you need any more please feel free to ask !
scalemodelling76 Thank you! Is it necessary to use oil based washes only or are there alternatives? Scale modelling is not popular in my country (Philippines). Very few model shops here. And I have not seen any Mig products here yet, only Tamiya and Mr. Hobby. I just want to know how you made that tank's paint job look "real" or "smoggy" (the armor part). Sorry if I ask many questions as this is the first time I'm going to be doing these.
+Paul Dacpano you don't have to use oils I like them because they dry slow so you can work with them for a long time but I don't know what other products you could use in your location . The smoggy look on this model I think came from the sludge wash I used but like I said I got that wash from a local hobby shop. Ask as many questions as you like I'm doing the same to other modellers !
Thank you. As my first figure is an Allied tank, I don't have to worry that much about it yet because of Allies' one-color scheme. That's what I like about German tanks: they bring out the creativity in you.
Paul Dacpano oh yeah that should be straight forward . I used to avoid German tanks because of the tri-colour camouflage it can be quite hard at first !
Dominick Guerra right now i'm using a Veda series 180 with a 0.3mm nozzle and for paint i use Tamiya acrylics or Revell aqua colours for both of them i don't really have a ratio i just put a few drops of paint into the colour cup and thin with X-20 thinner for the Tamiya colours and water for the Revell aqua colours until i get the consistency i want . I used to apply the paint quite thick but now i try to keep the paint very thin so i can control the shades of colour ! Hope this helps you !!
+Topi Salminen hello, no it's plastic cement it's glue for plastic model kits it welds the plastic together for a really strong fit . The exact glue is 'Tamiya extra thin cement' but you can get it from other model companies too ! Hope this helped !
i'm building this same exact kit and a stumbled upon this vid looking for camouflages. i don't have an air compressor for my airbrush, do you know a good air compressor i could get thats no more than $ 200? also this vid helped me alot and gave me some new techniques to try out. :)
+snakeboy hello, i bought my air compressor years ago on eBay from new and it was like £80 i don't know what the equivalent is in dollars. Sorry i couldn't be much help !
ethan mouse thank you the rust paint is from mig productions it's a oil based wash which i find if you brush a rough streak on where you want rust streaks and gently brush down with a moist brush you get nice rusting effects!
scalemodelling76 Excellent video and presentation. I myself use AK enamel track wash for weathering the tank as a whole and Humberol rust weathering powder for the actual exhaust and spare track. I find it gives great results. It turns out that a complete Panther Ausf A has just been recovered last week by German authorities near Kiel...was hidden by a 78 year old German individuals in his cellar... along with a Flak 88mm gun. (I'm not joking). Makes you wonder how many others are out their... hidden away.
cool! and for the discovery of that panther WOW and i agree i always wonder how many wrecks of aircraft are under the oceans around the world and tanks hidden in lakes boggy swamps and stuff thanks for sharing that ill search that up !
scalemodelling76 Actually, recovering tanks from Russian and Polish swamps is very much in vogue at the moment. The reason being... money..!!... a nice Stug III would be worth maybe hundreds of thousands of Euros. If you look on You tube... all sorts of T34's KV1's and Stug iii's have been pulled out of rivers and swamps..(Thirty years ago.. people knew about them being there, but they would have been too much trouble to recover, as not worth much).
***** History on that specific Panther tank: It was incomplete at the factory at the end of the war, so when the Allies captured the factory, they ordered the workers to complete it using anything lying around, thats why it has the chassis of a late Panther, but the turret of an early model. Apparently, that camo is the basic base dark red colour from the factory, with a hastily added camo pattern from left over paints I heard this from a guy that went to the Tank Museum and got the premium tour, so he was given talks by the museum owners about this, so I presume he knows what he's on about Hope this didn't sound condescending, just me sharing some info! :) So no, it isn't a standard paint job
Not at all professor it is good to have additional info on the subject although sometimes museum guides tend to improvise on their stories to make them more attractive to attendands, who knows that's history, cheers!
Definitely. There's not that many parts and it practically falls together. The only difficult assembly for me was the barrel transport mount lock that has two very tiny pieces.
I agree with Richard. This is a great kit for beginners. Tamiya sell three panther kits. This is the cheapest at £14, there’s one at about £22 and another at £30 or thereabouts.
the panther started with ausfhürung D (confusing) and suffered from frequent fires due to unburnt fuel collecting it the exhaust manifolds. panther A- fire problems solved by the addition of cooling exhausts (the 2 little exhausts on each side of one of the main ones. Panther G- some more general improvements plus the armour was made slightly thicker. new gun mantlet added to fix the original 's shot trap. panther F- new 'schmalturm' turret. general improvements to ausf G hull. 1 turret built. panther 2- 'schmalturm' turret fitted with PaK 43 (same gun as tiger 2) completely different hull. new engine, transmission, but with a similar shape. one hull completed. hope this isn't too late a reply...
Tommy Lakasi oh well I built it when I was still new to 1:35 tanks and I found it ok. There are a few little gaps that need filling but nothing major .
I also had that kind of tamiya-kit. But I was disappointed because of the missing hull-part overneath of the tracks and under the aslant side-fronts. There is simply a big opening remaining after having fully acomplished the tank.
Almost all these model builders but videos, especially the Meng and Takom videos by Spanish speakers, are great painters, but lousy at building the models.
