Meng 1/35 Panther Ausf. A Late production

[minitnkr]

Great dio idea. I'm in.

 

[Niho]

I'm in mate. Your ultimate cost dio is still one of the best I have seen.

Paul, that's a very high accolade your putting out ..... humbled, indeed .... a culmination of books ingested at the time..... Still in the bookcase.... and the dio on display in a case....

 

[De.Mort]

Loving this already .. Thank you .

 

[Niho]

Up early, coffee and miliput superfine white lol..... Smearing it out with flat smooth tools dipped in water, left for 10mins, dampen zimmerit tool and carefully emboss.

I did these areas first to get a handle on the putty and technique, probably won't be seen...... i found that keeping tool damp stops the ridges clogging, but when that happens i clear out with a toothbrush bought for modelling work.

Then you get braver......


So I'll stop there for an hour or so, to allow this to cure and so i don't handle it, the mantlet will be interesting.
Brunch methinks....
Niho

 

[Jim R]

coffee and miliput superfine white lol..... Smearing it out with flat smooth tools dipped in water

That's a new one on me. I'll have to try your coffee - milliput mix. It's certainly worked well.
Joking aside the zimm looks great. It will look superb under paint and weathering.

 

[Jakko]

That’s looking good, though rather you than me doing that with Milliput I’ve found much the same technique but with putty from a tube to work well too.

 

[Niho]

That's a new one on me. I'll have to try your coffee - milliput mix. It's certainly worked well.
Joking aside the zimm looks great. It will look superb under paint and weathering.

Thanks Jim, second stage funished and having another break, looks rough but i think thats the character of it, better than a strictly uniform PE or 2D decal kit.

 

[Niho]

That’s looking good, though rather you than me doing that with Milliput I’ve found much the same technique but with putty from a tube to work well too.

Jacko, I've use water on miliput for years, I'm rolling it out between greaseproof paper to about 1mm thick, cuttng a piece, putting it in the middle of work area, wetting it and spreading it out, give it a few mins to dry then emboss..... it seems to work.

 

[Niho]

Im chuffed with this, I'm getting into this

Just doing toolrack area on other side next....
Niho

 

[Jakko]

I've use water on miliput for years

The thing is that I have a strong aversion to using Milliput in general Only the white kind is sort of usable at all, IMHO, but difficult to mix because of the colour.

 

[Niho]

A couple more eves doing zimmerit, only glacis left to do tonight.
Happy days
R/H turret side.

L/H turret side.

Lower glacis and ball mg mount
This process has been fun, no worse that in 72nd, easier having the 'tools'.
Niho

 

[The Smythe Meister]

Looking good Nick, very nice indeed mate .

 

[Jim R]

Certainly looks very realistic Nick. All the aftermarket zimm I've come across looks too neat and complete. I'm sure in real life it wouldn't last long before it became damaged.

 

[Niho]

Certainly looks very realistic Nick. All the aftermarket zimm I've come across looks too neat and complete. I'm sure in real life it wouldn't last long before it became damaged.

I have a few Panzerwrecks books, and yes some applications look like they were done during bombing raids, put it this way ..... I wouldn't want to slide down the glacis.....

 

[scottie3158]

Nick,
Very nicely done mate. Looks superb.

 

[Niho]

Cheers all for tagging along, when this is near done it'll be going over to Dioramas Under Construction...
last night i only did a little, had the Bton Europa game on....
So i guess the zimmerit will be finished at clubmeet tonight lol

Not glued hull top and bottom together, reason being is to do wheels and tracks, but I'll have to carve the base foam next to set the swingarms before wheels etc.
All good in sleepy Sussex
Niho

 

[Scratchbuilder]

Looking good Nick, will look even better with the paint on.

 

[Niho]

I have finished the Glacis plate this a.m. now curing off whilst I'm at work.

And yes perfectly uneven, a man with a ladder did each side then they did centre section, hence the higgldy piggldy finish.
Niho