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Wow that is going to look amazing when you are done the weathering. I'm surprised the PZIV doesn't get more love on the forum

Looks pretty realistic to me. A nice muted pattern like you see in photos. I can see some poor tanker out there, diluting his tin of pigment with some diesel swiped from a shot up T34, and cursing the spray gun that keeps clogging.
Gonna look great weathered like a true workhorse, not one of those fashionista panthers or tigers with their fancy-schmancy makeup...

Mike.

I like that, cool camo!

Panzermechaniker wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 7:17 pm Wow that is going to look amazing when you are done the weathering. I'm surprised the PZIV doesn't get more love on the forum

Thanks Mr Mechaniker , I hope so.
Id assume the only reason the venerable P4 gets little(relative to others) airtime is the only versions available are early G's from 2 manufacturers en-mass with the wild inaccuracies , with the rare as rockinghorse Tamiya as the benchmark being unavailable and simply out of reach.

The reason I got this is the guy that owned it before me (is a Tamiya guy) could not cope with the inaccuracies.
Idler to high, drive sprocket to low, mantlet to far out, engine deck not sloped, suspension is awful, and its an early G/L43 rather than the most produced H/J/ L48 versions

ColemanCollector wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 7:46 pm Looks pretty realistic to me. A nice muted pattern like you see in photos. I can see some poor tanker out there, diluting his tin of pigment with some diesel swiped from a shot up T34, and cursing the spray gun that keeps clogging.
Gonna look great weathered like a true workhorse, not one of those fashionista panthers or tigers with their fancy-schmancy makeup...

Mike.

Cheers Mr Coleman, thats what I am aiming for. My poor old airbrush cant stay consistently tight any more & this paint job reinforced that.
While I know its hard to do a deliberately messy paint job that doesnt look like a mess, if the spray fan is doing its own thing, thats the outcome

I will send you my old one once I replace it Mr Chef
Better than none.

Ad Lav wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:58 am I like that, cool camo!

Thanks Mr Lav, while not an outright fan its growing on me.
At least I can select the lower schurzen panels I dont like to be removed

If I weren't so many thousands of miles away, Bix, I would relieve you of that PzKfw. IV you hate so much. I would give the poor foundling a happy home.

Herr Dr. Professor wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:49 pm If I weren't so many thousands of miles away, Bix, I would relieve you of that PzKfw. IV you hate so much. I would give the poor foundling a happy home.

Your not that far away mate, theres a plane with freight on it leaving every other day !
Last tank I sent to the U.S. cost $157AUD(you do the conversion!)

Painting tools on a model is annoying
But I take solace in that they are largely unseen behind the schurzen and once it’s all weathered they will blend in to the overall view.

The workhorse of the German army has come to life!