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HL Panther G

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 12:57 am
by greengiant
I think just about everyone who has one of these has posted their pictures. These are mine. Ivw opened the front hatches and moved the smoke and sound to one of them. The on off switch is in the center if the rope holder on the right side.

Re: HL Panther G

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 1:13 am
by Red Devils
Great looking Panther Greengiant, she's sweet...

Derek

Re: HL Panther G

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 1:20 pm
by Professor
Very nice great job :thumbup:

Re: HL Panther G

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 10:09 pm
by greengiant
Yes HL had a winner with this and the jagpather models. its easy to modify with bits and pieces most have laying around. Still need to add the small chains tho the spare track holders The smoker as usual burnt out and when I get some extra cash Im going to try phil at rc tank warfare who has a new super smoker and if it works well in it Ill start to change all my smoke units.
By the way, after looking over hundreds of real pictures of ww2 panthers I think I got the skirts made up pretty accurate as the 6 panel units rather than the 5 panel units most People are putting on their models. Thanks for the positive comments they really make the work worthwhile rather than just leaving it as bought.
It still stumps me why HL hasnt redone the top hull to the A model panther with the A model exaust rather than continueing with the God awful Pantiger they still are selling.

Re: HL Panther G

Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 6:25 pm
by KommandantX
Excellent Panther! I do have one too but admittedly nowhere near as good.
Regarding the Pantiger i had 3!
The first Pantiger i cannibalised to scratch build a Jagdtiger (you will find it if you do a search in the show off forum).
The second Pantiger i cannibalised to scratch build a Tiger (P) (you will also find it in the forum) still not complete, these things do take time :-)
The third one, i was planning again to cannibalise for various other projects. However, looking at it from various angles, i came to the conclusion that had it been real what an awesome tank would it have been. It would have been a real monster, plus my son is allowed to play with :-)

Re: HL Panther G

Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:19 pm
by greengiant
Yes you did a pretty nice conversion there. Ive been thinking of using bits and pieces of my old pantiger upper hull on the other G model I have that I havent really touched since I got it to convert it to an an A model just havent gotten up the nerve or time yet to attempt doing it. Too many other projects going at the same time all waiting for the extra cash needed to complete them.

Re: HL Panther G

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 12:23 am
by diverfrost
Nice job onhe panther mate!
really like the water colour effects of the first picture :D

Re: HL Panther G

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 3:25 am
by greengiant
The photo backround is a photo I found on the web that had a panther advancing into what I think was a wheatfield along with 2 or three other panthers in the field behind it. Since it had similer camo paint as my model I presume it was on the western front. The angle was a full side view and since I wanted to see the rear of mine in the picture I enlarged it slightly and when I pasted It into the scene it blocked the veiw of the other panthers and some of the backround detail which I attempted to reproduce be painting it in. Glad you like the effect. Im getting beter at using the paint program the more I use it.