I would like to show you, what I made of my Amewi Panther.
This was a very low cost project, everything I used on the Panther, I had laying around. The ony parts I had to buy, were the metal exhausts.
The tank came with metal tracks, metal idlers and metal sprocket wheels.
Changes I made: printed cover over the headlight, grills on top of the engine deck (made from a metal kitchen sieve), metal tow cable on the left side, took the stock exhaust covers off, because I did not have enough room for the legs from some guys sitting at the engine deck. Changed them for some metal ones from eBay.
I added a Hinterhalt Tarnung (ambush camo), and in the end I put an enamel wash from AK over it.
This AK wash is a very nice product, because you can change the darkness of the wash with white spirit, if it is too dark to your opinion, in the end.
You can even do this when everything has dried up!
At first I did not paint the grey looking metal tracks, but in the end it did not feel good to me.
I was in doubt, which color should I take....brownish/muddy, or just plain flat black?
Decided to go the black way, because while driving outdoors they would get dust and mud on them, which should make 'm look just as they should be.
Because I had a driver and radio operator figure, I had to open the driver's hatch. Underneath the hatch from the radio operator, there was the on/off switch.
This one had to move to the right side storage box at the rear, otherwise I had not enough room for the radio operator.
I did made an opening in the bottom of the box through which I can turn the Panzer on and off.
The skirts are made of aluminum, brackets are brass.
Skirts are screwed onto the brackets with 1.4mm screws/nuts, which are very visible in the enlarged pics. But while driving outdoors, you won't notice that at all.
I know, far from scale, but in fact that's not really important to me! The overall looks and the fact that everything must stay where it is while driving outdoors, is far more important to me.
Upper and lower hull aren't screwed together yet, that's why you might see this on some pics (or you even do not notice it at all...?)
The road wheels are not aligned, so I must figure out how to solve this.
But those are some minor changes, which does not affact these pics.
Enough talking, now go to some pics.
Enjoy!
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Amazing!! Enough said.
