PANTHER G ZU-FUSS

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BANNER DAY...GOOD ON YA HERMAN


ALPHA

[HERMAN BIX]

Yes, it was.
Made some rocket firing cable penetration caps out of unwanted H/L tank commander headphone ear pieces with a hollowed section for the cables to set into !
Simple, near enough for me.
Heated the thing up with a hair dryer & rushed outside to prime.
Barring any oversights, this should be the last primer touchup before the final run to the line.
Also added tow cable clevices on the hull rear in case I want to use them.Its real crowded up there so maybe not.

[ALPHA]

Hair dryer....Hair spray....better not hear you used a styling brush to lay down the paint

Like it...Looking better and better

ALPHA

[HERMAN BIX]

No mate, but its still cold here at night so the hair dryer was necessary. im an impatient type & really need the primer to mark the way forward.
Had all day at a car show so nothing done, but now the "oompah-loompahs" have gone to bed I might get onto a bit more !

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I wish it were cold here....I wish when I used my blow dryer to set down the anti slip coating on my M1 that the air around me was cold...it's not..it's really hot ...could do airbrushing...but I'm a sweat ball at the moment ...too uncomfortable to do anything

Good luck with the paint...should look good in something other that oxide red

ALPHA

[HERMAN BIX]

I feel your pain mate................but we here in the first- world have an amazing thing called Air conditioning !!
Right now its the end of winter a week into spring. No need for heating, but its humid & this weekend has been wet.
I like this time of the year here, not hot, not cold.........but its calm before the storm.
Now on it storm season with bullshit hot days & humid as heel nights.
Not for me though, got air-con

The primer is also wearing thin for me too.
The delay on the NVG was a real bummer. Just put the brakes on the whole thing.
All behind now, i'm right up-er as its said.

[ALPHA]

I feel your pain mate................but we here in the first- world have an amazing thing called Air conditioning !!
Right now its the end of winter a week into spring. No need for heating, but its humid & this weekend has been wet.
I like this time of the year here, not hot, not cold.........but its calm before the storm.
Now on it storm season with bullshit hot days & humid as heel nights.
Not for me though, got air-con

Well...where I live...there is usually no need for air con...the valley usually sustains some kind of breeze...so it's usually very cool ...but with this thing called global warming...the decreasing of the ozone layer seems to have an effect on what was once purely natural...reason I never had the need for an air conditioner...not to mention air conditioners contribute to the depletion of the ozone layer....ain't that a kick in the buttocks

The primer is also wearing thin for me too.
The delay on the NVG was a real bummer. Just put the brakes on the whole thing.
All behind now, i'm right up-er as its said.

Yup I noticed....you sure it's all about the parts arriving...or time spent with the little woman

ALPHA

[HERMAN BIX]

!! Both
Ozone-shmozone
When it comes to my personal comfort, bring on the technology.
I work in the elements, so when Im home, I control those elements as much as I can.

The NVG can now be painted off line & all I have to do is assemble the commanders set then mount that to the MG ring.
Once the cam is done, all the NVG can be placed & cabled up. rockets placed & cabled then thats all she wrote .
Damn thing has been going on since January, so its about time to complete it

[ALPHA]

!! Both
Ozone-shmozone
When it comes to my personal comfort, bring on the technology.
I work in the elements, so when Im home, I control those elements as much as I can.

The NVG can now be painted off line & all I have to do is assemble the commanders set then mount that to the MG ring.
Once the cam is done, all the NVG can be placed & cabled up. rockets placed & cabled then thats all she wrote .
Damn thing has been going on since January, so its about time to complete it

...OK...Back to work WO2c Bix

ALPHA

[HERMAN BIX]

Got my Olivgrun on today. Did the wheels, careful to mask off the sponsons. I figured the lack of paint at the late stage would reall mean the good stuff was only applied where necessary. No inner road wheels, no hull sponsons, etc etc.

Also covered the NVG scopes in a base of gun metal with a dry brush of rubber black over top to try to emulate the "optic wrinkle finish black" common to cameras and binoculars etc of the era. My Dad had a set of Bino's that were marked Zeiss & I am a '67 model. He had them from his dad & my ole man was a '44 model. so I will never know what they were.
I do remember the rough coating on the body though. Im taking a punt on that these state of the art optics might have been given the same rugged coating on the outer shells as most similar gadgets of the day.
Assuming these things were of a highly sensitive nature that would have demanded destruction at any hint of capture, and the very function they performed, protecting them during use & stowage must have been high priority.

Plan is to get the right weather, time and famill dynamic to get the base green on over the next days.
The wheels look like a bunch of grapes hung under the hull against the primer