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Tamiya Panther
Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 4:43 pm
by percy1510
This is my completed Tamiya Panther. Got it from Ebay a few weeks back and it was in pretty poor shape. Badly brush painted and most of the detail parts glued on with big blobs of glue, turret numbers painted in Tipex and best of all there was a 2 inch wood screw thru the mantlet holding the gun in place !! :-\. Since then I have stripped everything back down to the basics, rebuilt all of the mantlet area (without the wood screw),scratch built some missing parts, cleaned off all the old paint and given it a new paint job which I am pretty chuffed with. I would love to hear what you guys think of it (good and bad comments welcome
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all the best
Glyn
Re: Tamiya Panther
Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 4:44 pm
by percy1510
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Re: Tamiya Panther
Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 4:45 pm
by percy1510
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Re: Tamiya Panther
Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 8:28 pm
by BREL
Percy it looks good
just one small thing the tracks look to me to be a bit too tight, they should sag on to the road wheels as show in this picture
Re: Tamiya Panther
Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 8:46 pm
by percy1510
cheers brell, well spoted. I will have a go at adjusting the track tensioners
Glyn
Re: Tamiya Panther
Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 9:03 pm
by 971wright
HI Glyn Glad to see it went to a good home you have done a great job repairing the Panther looks fantastic.
regards pete
Re: Tamiya Panther
Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 9:19 pm
by edelweiss3945
a very nice rebuild m8.... congratulations!
Re: Tamiya Panther
Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 7:12 am
by tankman
Looking good now
Alan
Re: Tamiya Panther
Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 8:25 am
by grompix
You've done a great job on the rebuild Glyn. It looks excellent.
Cheers
Chris
Re: Tamiya Panther
Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 7:18 pm
by percy1510
Thanks for the kind comments everyone.
Grompix, how are you doing with yours as we had them both from the same vendor ??