A Quickie on a Panzer IV

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Max-U52
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A Quickie on a Panzer IV

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A guy asked me to paint his Imex/Taigen PzIV for him. He said he wanted it to look well maintained, but like it had been on campaign for a few weeks, so that's what I tried to give him. Just a bit of wear and tear and dirty her up a bit. I also installed metal roadwheels, sprockets and idlers (it comes with metal tracks) and I added a metal tool set to get rid of the cheesy, molded on pioneer tools. I also put in a Komodo board to eliminate track recoil and V2 4 shaft steel gearboxes. The part I like best (besides the bucket) is the rope and wouldn't ya know that's the piece that broke during transport to his place. No big deal and an easy fix. This is NOT an historically accurate tank, the markings are all from the spares box and don't represent any tank or unit that actually existed. He went through the spares box and said, "I like this, and this, and can you work this in?", to which I said, "Sure, Pard, it's your nickel".

So like I said, just a quick paint job, no real changes to the basic stock tank, still on TG 2.4 electronics, and nothing even close to the level of quality and detail that Philip displays with his awesome PzIV, but the customer was happy so that's all I really care about.

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deathrawt
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Re: A Quickie on a Panzer IV

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Looks good max! simple and not overdone on the weathering. I'm not a rivet counter either so I always say do what looks good and what you want and are happy with rather then being historically accurate. I will have to get some of that rope you use for some of my tanks , it looks great
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Arnie_DK
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Re: A Quickie on a Panzer IV

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Love it :)

Thats the way I paint my tanks as well.
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Markocaster
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Re: A Quickie on a Panzer IV

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Looks great Max, I have to get myself one of those panzer IV's
HL /Mato tiger 1 early, Tamiya Tiger 1 early, Taigen tiger 1 mid
Taigen T34/85, HL SU-100
Jagdpanzer Lang
Taiga Jagdpanther
Heng Long Sherman DGS Firefly kit
Tamiya King Tiger (unbuilt)
Mato all metal Panzer III
1/10 Jagdpanther
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