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Rubicon Models => Showcase & Gallery => Topic started by: stevepalffy on July 19, 2016, 05:28:54 pm

Title: WIP Panther G
Post by: stevepalffy on July 19, 2016, 05:28:54 pm: (https://s32.postimg.org/cy3a40qi9/IMG_20160719_185523.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/cy3a40qi9/)

Panther G Dustified ....WIP a few more layers to go.
Title: Re: WIP Panther G
Post by: Ballardian on July 19, 2016, 07:03:32 pm: Nice job, the fading on the camo scheme is very effective.
Title: Re: WIP Panther G
Post by: stevepalffy on July 19, 2016, 08:59:47 pm: Just a few more layers to go.

(https://s31.postimg.org/42n4l86p3/IMG_20160719_222719.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/42n4l86p3/)
Title: Re: WIP Panther G
Post by: airborne on July 19, 2016, 10:11:22 pm: Very nice good paint job, check out Northstar Miniatures, Night Yagers brill for later conflicts and weird war 2.
Title: Re: WIP Panther G
Post by: stevepalffy on July 20, 2016, 07:46:18 pm: Just a few more layers to go....

(https://s31.postimg.org/lss0y702v/IMG_20160720_211949.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/lss0y702v/)
Title: Re: WIP Panther G
Post by: Ballardian on July 20, 2016, 10:50:38 pm: Here's an interesting question - you've painted the lamp on the IR gear red, I've done so myself on previous vehicles & box artwork commonly depicts the lamps as having red filters (such as Battlefronts FOW Panther platoon box) - & yet here's an actual refurbished Sperber FG 1250 (Sparrow Hawk) with a blue lamp - can anyone shed some light (excuse the pun) on this?

(https://s31.postimg.org/6mmfq7yl3/German_UHU_IR.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/6mmfq7yl3/)

(I know that there were a couple of attempts to get a workable IR system onto the Panther - some with binocular viewfinders & additional lamps/viewers for the gunners sight, but available info seems a bit sketchy.)
Title: Re: WIP Panther G
Post by: stevepalffy on July 20, 2016, 11:25:41 pm: A few more layers to go..Pigments applied mig Europe earth
(https://s32.postimg.org/fw1y8416p/IMG_20160721_010628.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/fw1y8416p/)
Title: Re: WIP Panther G
Post by: stevepalffy on July 20, 2016, 11:31:42 pm: Yes Panthers were equipped with IR....Some faked photos out there though....not 100% sure on configuration of or specific devices fitted (there were several)...
Fought in the West and Hungary....also this model is Dustified....alternate history...

Google Falke and UHU Sdkfz 251 as well.

IR on Panther are also covered in Jentz books and master modelers books(Japanese).

Red tint for lenses not sure....but always seen them depicted that way ?
Title: Re: WIP Panther G
Post by: Ballardian on July 21, 2016, 01:13:25 am: My comments were certainly not intended as a criticism of your excellent paintjob or choice of colour for the IR lamp, merely curiosity on my part, Culvert & Feist's 'Panther In Detail' (Ryton Publications) provides such detail as exists of the operational use of IR gear - but of course never actually mentioned the colour of the UHU component - I'd assumed it was red & when I came across the photo I included it provoked consternation - have I been painting them wrong all this time? ???
Title: Re: WIP Panther G
Post by: stevepalffy on July 21, 2016, 01:55:33 am: Yeah don't know honestly....I do know that museums constantly have lots of things the wrong color or substitute components ?
Would be good to know ?
But as usual ....enjoy the hobby....
Title: Re: WIP Panther G
Post by: johan on July 21, 2016, 05:35:36 am: Most vehicles also end up in museums with their post-war adjustments. The G13 from Switserland is such an example. You have to strip it down to a regular Hetzer again.
Title: Re: WIP Panther G
Post by: ultravanillasmurf on July 21, 2016, 05:46:59 pm: Quote from: johan on July 21, 2016, 05:35:36 am
Most vehicles also end up in museums with their post-war adjustments. The G13 from Switserland is such an example. You have to strip it down to a regular Hetzer again.
G13s are like Grizzlies, available and look like real vehicles that fought in WW2. Like Grizzlies, many in museums have been cosmetically altered to look like combatants.
Title: Re: WIP Panther G
Post by: ripley on July 21, 2016, 08:59:11 pm: There was a discussion on Armorama about IR gear . Guys that have used it on M 48 / M 60s and have seen captures Soviet vehicles , say the glass looks black from a distance , but if you put your eye right up to it , it is a very, very dark red .
Title: Re: WIP Panther G
Post by: stevepalffy on July 21, 2016, 09:43:50 pm: (https://s32.postimg.org/qmmkw9q3l/IMG_20160721_232742.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/qmmkw9q3l/)

Lol....finished.
This is how I do them .
Title: Re: WIP Panther G
Post by: stevepalffy on July 21, 2016, 10:59:46 pm: (https://s32.postimg.org/s0ukcgzjl/IMG_20160722_003055.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/s0ukcgzjl/)
1:56 scale Rubicon models plastic kit
Panther G
Dustified.
Complete.
Title: Re: WIP Panther G
Post by: ultravanillasmurf on July 21, 2016, 11:34:11 pm: Excellent.
Title: Re: WIP Panther G
Post by: stevepalffy on July 22, 2016, 12:26:44 am: Thanks
Title: Re: WIP Panther G
Post by: ultravanillasmurf on July 22, 2016, 05:00:12 am: Excellent.
Title: Re: WIP Panther G
Post by: stevepalffy on July 23, 2016, 11:18:37 pm: (https://s31.postimg.org/e4kl6ewlj/IMG_20160724_000718.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/e4kl6ewlj/)
Title: Re: WIP Panther G
Post by: stevepalffy on July 23, 2016, 11:19:23 pm: (https://s31.postimg.org/aunsgscc7/IMG_20160722_215203.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/aunsgscc7/)
Title: Re: WIP Panther G
Post by: stevepalffy on July 23, 2016, 11:20:05 pm: (https://s31.postimg.org/odlskb0gn/IMG_20160722_215733.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/odlskb0gn/)
Title: Re: WIP Panther G
Post by: stevepalffy on July 23, 2016, 11:20:50 pm: (https://s31.postimg.org/78hz4edrb/IMG_20160722_214612.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/78hz4edrb/)
Title: Re: WIP Panther G
Post by: stevepalffy on July 26, 2016, 08:03:23 pm: (https://s31.postimg.org/3w49a59nb/IMG_20160726_193746.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/3w49a59nb/)
Title: Re: WIP Panther G
Post by: stevepalffy on July 26, 2016, 08:03:59 pm: (https://s31.postimg.org/w8ulaqn47/IMG_20160726_192230.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/w8ulaqn47/)
Title: Re: WIP Panther G
Post by: stevepalffy on July 26, 2016, 08:04:53 pm: (https://s32.postimg.org/x2g8q2k1d/IMG_20160726_204506.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/x2g8q2k1d/)

All in good fun ....Lol...
Title: Re: WIP Panther G
Post by: airborne on July 27, 2016, 04:35:55 am: Brilliant modelling and great paint jobs, is the Dino`s one of the "Ausi" figure range? either way you`ve "nailed em" both.
Title: Re: WIP Panther G
Post by: stevepalffy on July 28, 2016, 02:23:06 pm: (https://s32.postimg.org/5xtu8cdxd/IMG_20160724_230728.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/5xtu8cdxd/)
Just a bit of fun....
Warlord and Perry figure parts ....cheap plastic dinosaur from K Mart...Green stuff....Imagination....Bingo !
Will be used just as proxy Cavalry.
Title: Re: WIP Panther G
Post by: airborne on August 09, 2016, 04:54:11 am: Well you mailed that, and best of all you can match a foot figure, man after my own heart clever use of all. I thought it was a shop brought, that's talent.
Title: Re: WIP Panther G
Post by: stevepalffy on August 17, 2016, 05:11:09 pm: Thanks....it's fun stuff to mess around with..