Taigen Panther F

[wibblywobbly]

This is looking really good, using brass fenders and buckling them up is going to look way better than the effect that we get trying to do it with plastic. Can't wait to see it all finished.

[maxmekker]

thanks for looking .

a few more of the process
Oil and thinner mixed to slush



lay down a slushy layer



follow with your fav. pigment colors






give it a doze of varnish

[maxmekker]

More stuff going on With the F .

Wilders deep shadow Wash




and then it was time to play With some Oils











Also made a start on some pencil chipping .. Going to take a while .

[maxmekker]

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[jarndice]

Hi, You say it comes without electronics but I am guessing it did come with all the necessary pre-installed wiring and perhaps a pair of motors for the Turret and elevation.?
A Cracking build by the way.
Shaun.

[maxmekker]

yeah yeah, thats right, just the main board and tr/receiver missing .

[maxmekker]

Wow, so look what I brought out from the corner of dust..

Sat the the 1/14 truck I'm building ( the 620r ) to sort out some stuff on the F. Not that much left to do on it, just needed to sort out the turret and servo recoil. and re paint some parts of it, and get on to the weathering stage .

So. I used the stock recoil setup, just swopped out the motor , and ziptied in a servo , and used a piano wire to make the recoil happening

looks shait, but works

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had to touch up the turret also

[Soeren]

Nice, the recoil looks convincing and the mod straightforward . Might try that as well. Do you think an elevation servo would go in like this as well?

[maxmekker]

Nice, the recoil looks convincing and the mod straightforward . Might try that as well. Do you think an elevation servo would go in like this as well?

was planning on one elevation servo also ( and using the Clark universal recoil kit) but it stay's as it is now for as long as it will hold up

[RustyTrax]

If you trim the corner of the recoild case the servo sits flat. If you leave it like it is the servo will tip and the zip tie will slip.

The pictures I posted for you on RCU show the corner clipped.