Tamiya Panther ausf. a 1/35

[tnt10512]

Hi,


I am new to this board. I have rejoined the modeling community after a long hiatus of 30 + years. My modeling skills are quite rusty at best. I look forward to meeting you and discussing the hobby and the techniques you use to hopefully improve my skills. I am an armor modeler, specifically world war II 1/35 scale and also like to paint figures from the same period. I have begun with a Tamiya Panther ausf. A which I know has its issues as a kit but its a good piece in my opinion to start with and improve various skills with.

[tnt10512]

What you see here is the creation of "sponson's" to cover the inside wheel wells of the tank. This was done with sheet styrene 020" thick. This address's one of the short comings of this particular model. I also used Monroe Perdu Design Studios, Zimmerit for this kit as well as the bazooka shields (which can be found at www.monroeperdu.com/). The kit was built straight from the box with only the addition of the above items and a purchase from Tamiya. Another sprue of the Road Wheels for $5 which I will use to address another short coming of this particular kit; the missing doubled up center road wheels. I will post more photo's as I progress

[Leon]

First off,welcome aboard and nice to see you posting already.

Nice work on the Panther so far.I just finished building the same kit OOB!

[wbill76]

Welcome to the forum! Won't take you long to shake off the rust by the looks of things with that Panther project.

[Tojo72]

Nice start,zimm looks good.

[tnt10512]

Thank you all for the welcome and the words of encouragement. However, I realize this is not the place to post this work. I got a little over zealous as this is my first posting. I apologize for this and does anyone know how to move this thread to another more apropriate place on this site?

[k1w1]

Welcome to the forum. There is no problem with adding a few pictures to your introduction. No need to move them, just start a post for your build in the armor section and leave this as it is.

[dupes]

First off - howdy!

That MP zim looks a lot better than I thought it would after seeing it in the package. Wow.

The missing road wheels - how are you going to fix the problem?

[tnt10512]

I contacted Tamiya parts replacement and purchased the "C" Sprue, which contains the road wheels. I cut off the spacing plastic off the rear center back of the road wheels and glued the two wheels together. The only issue now is that the rubber tracks that came with the kit do not fit correctly, since the spacing is to narrow for the new center wheels. I have purchased Bronco's Panther "early type" workable tracks as a hopeful replacement and now Just waitng on its arrival.

[Leon]

Nice work on the wheel surgery !

[tnt10512]

Leon,

Did you post/upload any pic's of your Panther ausf. a? I would like to see what you have done.

[13bravo]

Wow that's looking very good. Nice work on that zimmerit. Welcome back!

[TRM]

Welcome aboard TNT! Looks like you're making your way around here just fine so far! Nice job on the Big Girl so far!!

[c3p0]

Great job so far sir seems you have no rust and the skill set has stayed with you. Look forward to seeing more of your builds sir.

[tnt10512]

Thank you all again for welcoming me and your words of encouragement. I have continued my build and opened a new thread under "armor all scales\WWII axis Vehicles".

[Leon]

Jun 11, 2016 16:53:32 GMT -5 tnt10512 said:

Leon,

Did you post/upload any pic's of your Panther ausf. a? I would like to see what you have done.

I also posted my build in the Axis armor! You may have to search back a page or two to find it as I haven't had any progress on it in awhile.

[deafpanzer]

Welcome aboard! Great start on the Zimmerit too!

[panzerjager2]

Looking good............ Just curious aboooot your plans for the bottom plate

[tnt10512]

If you are referring to the holes at the very bottom of the hull, nothing it will not be seen.