Meng 1/35 Panther Ausf. A Late production

[Niho]

Fridays build progress, I've taken it to this point, a lot of small parts not added so i don't knock them off when handling. It's now ready for putty and zimmerit tools. This is a lovely kit.
Rear turret plate not added, so i can zimm it then add to turret, i guess I'll have to use a homemade minitool to go betwix the toolracks but no problem there.

I will do some zimmerit on hull behind wheels as a testbed area.
The rear plate i added exhaust stacks, left off stowage bins but i placed the bins on and drew around them so i know where to feather the zimmerit out.
Niho

[Andy T]

I'll jump on board while there's still space.

[Airborne01]

Looking forward to this! My Meng Berepanther is residing on a shelf due to the frustration of the two guide horns per track link - make yourself an assembly jig mate it'll save quite a few grey hairs!
Steve

[Niho]

Looking forward to this! My Meng Berepanther is residing on a shelf due to the frustration of the two guide horns per track link - make yourself an assembly jig mate it'll save quite a few grey hairs!
Steve

I've done many a indie link set, i treat it as therapy :confounded::blow-kiss-2: R/H side i intend to be on the Panther, L/H side will be 'thrown' or broken, so you show off the details.... and help portray the scene i will make, i see you get a former for the upper run from roadwheel to sprocket so that will help.
Niho

[scottie3158]

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

[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.

[Guest]

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 :smiling3: 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

[Guest]

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.