Rick's 1-87 Scale Trident Jagdpanther Conversion

[Mini Me]

Hi Jakko.......think our posts crossed. this did not come easy and that little dolop of putty you see at the armor joint was where the saw slipped and cut a nice groove in the Glacis plate! :rolling:.....live & learn.:thinking:

[Mini Me]

I had a "screening" session this evening and managed to get all of them roughed in....naturally there will have to be some smoothing of the edges before they are permanently fixed in place. I also had to do away with the deep fording air intake on the rear engine cover.

[Neil Merryweather]

Nice. Can we have something as a scale comparison please Rick?

[Mini Me]

Certainly Neil

[Neil Merryweather]

Cheers Rick, even smaller than I expected!

[Neil Merryweather]

Can't you sleep bro?

[Mini Me]

Just got up......I only need about 6-7 hrs. and the battery is full for another day.

[Jim R]

That is very neatly done Rick. I can understand that this sort of butchery is harder to keep neat at this scale. The size comparison photo certainly brings home the problems.

[Mini Me]

I'm used to it Jim.......the torture never stops, you just have to learn to cope.

[Si Benson]

She sure is a tiny beastie! coming together very nicely Rick

[Mini Me]

Thanks very much Si, It has been an enjoyable transformation process so far. Stick around, more to follow.

[Mini Me]

Spent the morning adding the block off plates for the driver's second periscope and the Panther A antenna location on the rear engine deck. After that it was knock of the molded on blobs over the tops of the crew periscopes and fabricate and install those little beauties. I tried (not very convincingly) to add some weld bead to the top Glacis and roof line as well as tooling it down the sides and around the back.....Jury's still out on this till after paint flies.

[Mini Me]

Thanks very much Si, It has been an enjoyable transformation process so far. Stick around, more to follow.

[Mini Me]

I have now unleashed my secret weapon....that's right, the unbeatable resin track assembly with full track face detail! What will become of the 1-72nd scale competitors when they see that they have been outdetailed by the lowly 1-87 scale model, vying for a position in the world of acceptable scales? Stay tuned, more to come.....

[JR]

Wow Rick the size of the tool blade against the complete model just shows how small 1/87 is. Wouldn't surprise me if you said were able to make the tracks from separate links as well .