Panther Schmalturm - Practice tank

Hi Guys,

As practice makes perfect I have an practice tank to test my painting on.

And here goes, unfortunately the different shades does not show properly on the photos, I need to buy better lights.







Tell me what you think.

/Tiny

Now that's a good boy

Positive thinking leads to positive actions Viking.

Without the much needed patience you won't conquer like your forefathers did

Joking apart, the pics show enough that you are stepping up your efforts and even if faintly, the modulation shows really

Keep it up bro

looks slightly grainy....I suggest you add a tot of gloss/clear. Will make a more life-like metal look the satin finish too....

Otherwise great job mate...

Dottore

The grainyness comes from the fact that I've "Auto Adjusted" the picture in Microsoft Picture Editor

/Tiny

Don't know why I managed to create a new thread for this one..


Noticed that the cleaning lady managed to remove 6 of the wheels. So I'm a few steel wheels short!





I've managed to get two thumbprints on the side of the tank. And the wheels are just fastened with blue tack.

I'll bring it to the club on Wednesday so you can give me some instructions on how to remove thumb prints...

please comment on it!

Those dreaded thumbprints...always wash hands thouroughly before painting session OR wear surgical gloves as I do (I can hear the others laughing) OR use the insides of the turret or hull to hold the tank...

As for removing them I guess you have to paint over it with the base colour mate....

Job looks OK but judging from pics so not easy!

Dottore

You are improving, Joseph!

Very neat paint job. Good idea to practice on this model.

In the first photos I can see the modulation technique. Maybe at the club we can see it better.

Regards
Noel

Looking really nice Tiny

You have applied a filter? Or oil paint streaking?
Looking good. Great start to weathering.

Dottore

PS @ Ray...its not a replaced hatch...its a hatch still in primer...(I think!)

You're even improving on your weathering techniques!

Looks very good.

You can improve the detail of the weld seams, for example, by pin-washing them with Raw Umber oil paint. THis will bring out the detail. I would even pin-touch on either side of the fender embossed ribs and around the detail on top of the turret.

However, you're doing giant steps and a great difference from the first models you had brought to the club.

Regards
Noel

Ray wrote:I am no AFV Nut, but since I'm still a NUT and I know a good thing when I see one I really like what I'm seeing

Looks very very good IMHO

Love the sublime touch with the replaced door hatch

bcauchi wrote:Looking really nice Tiny

Dottore wrote:You have applied a filter? Or oil paint streaking?
Looking good. Great start to weathering.

Dottore

PS @ Ray...its not a replaced hatch...its a hatch still in primer...(I think!)

Noel Petroni wrote:You're even improving on your weathering techniques!

Looks very good.

You can improve the detail of the weld seams, for example, by pin-washing them with Raw Umber oil paint. THis will bring out the detail. I would even pin-touch on either side of the fender embossed ribs and around the detail on top of the turret.

However, you're doing giant steps and a great difference from the first models you had brought to the club.

Regards
Noel

Thanks everyone,

I think I'm stuck in that "I want to be best today" mentality, Stevan even told me this when we took the photos at my place this Monday.

The reason I just posted pictures is that I'm not sure that I'm satisfied with the result so far. It seems that I failed to thin the Vallejo Satin, and that is shown on the front plate. I will bring it to the club so I can show it to you what I mean.

/Tiny

And it's in the bin for the moment. when I started to remove the wash, parts fell off so I calmly put aside in the corner..

jojjemannen wrote:And it's in the bin for the moment. when I started to remove the wash, parts fell off so I calmly put aside in the corner..

TINY shame on you
WHERE IS THE PROVERBIAL SWEDISH LEVEL HEADEDNESS AND LOGICAL THINKING, YOU ARE BECOMING MORE AND MORE LIKE US. IMPULSIVE

Tiny you really had a smooth progress so why have you lost faith mate! Modelling is never plain sailing ... courage mate, hope you can rectify the mistake as this was coming out nice.

@ Ray, a little history and artistic license on the paper panzers [late war]. The red wheel and hatch are primed items, an idea today 'infashion' for 1945 models to show the emergency of teh situation with the red dawn entering Berlin, so each factory assembly what is made ready to go for war. Though we now of many tanks went out just in the red oxide primer, there were also green for heavy tanks and occasional barrels were in zinc oxide, grey. The little artistic licensce is to show this emergency situation, as Germans put away 'their standards' in production to make everything available to make the ultimate sacrifice. They also put tanks without engines as pillboxes. On another note this Panther never really existed as is, unfortunetly only an assembly line of turrets were ready but factory, you might still find images on the net which was bombed by USAF. The only surviving turret ended in Bovington UK, but some genius used it for practice shooting ... so you can imagine that nowadays it looks like Edam Cheese ...

Image of factory found on ML website. Notice on the side the Schmal turrets inline to be fit on a Phanther G chassis, NB photo is original and give an indication of the Dark Yellow and red primed items ...







Ivan

Ivan, I have not lost faith

And it's not in frustration I've put it away, it's so I can ponder what the next step is.
It's not in bit's and pieces, I didn't throw it in the corner, I put it there gently!

It seems that the biggest mistake I did on this tank so far is that I did not thin the gloss enough. But I have a saying about doing mistakes, "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one" (Einstein Said that). So I am learning a lot from my mistakes, and I will continue doing them.

Like the mistake I did this last saturday, I told a beautiful woman that I met at a bar; "You look like your mother!"..

But hey, now I know!

Hold old was her mother?

Keep the good work mate ...