04 - Painting the Panther Ausf.G by M.N.H.

and the painting begans! in primer! 

I use the Vallejo's red primer RAL8012 as a base for my track links paint! and I start the paint with him! 

For my RAL6003 Olivgrün base I'm using 10 parts of the Ammo A.Mig-002 Olivgrün Opt.2 (I think they are to much grayish) and 1 part of the Italeri's 4798AP - Flat Panzer Olivgrün 1943. and added 1 part of white for highlights in modulation paint. my modulation paint looks more stronger in the photo than the rea!
 

parts in RAL8017 schokoladenbraun ready! and with this I learned, never more I will buid the tools before painting camouflage! 

I started the RAL7028 stripes in the turret and glued the barrel in place! 

I finished the parts in RAL7028, unfortunately the torn paper paint masks were not high enough in distance and made the edges hard in the final result of the stripes! 😭 

now leave aside for the paint dry all overnight for the glossy clearcoat! 

for the black tire I like to use the Vallejo's RAL7021 Dunkelgrau applied in a very diluted way, in the proportion of 2:1 or 3:1 more or less and in two or three layers 

polished steel for the iron rims! 

before and after correcting and cleaning the track-linls! 

Well, as we are old, we can't take any more back pain, our eyes get tired of straining, etc, etc, etc ... this is the end of the stage of the wheelset and we will leave everything more for later! 

all sealed with glossy varnish (clear coat) to receive the oil brown wash later 

little sequence of a Dry-fit before the glossy varnish (clear-coat) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I did my wash with oil paint at night using the desk lighting at night, but when I observed it today (29/05/2020) with the sunlight I thought the brown shade had darkened a lot, more than necessary!  

however I tried to lighten and reduce the dirt to the maximum, because in this I want to leave a less worn and dirty appearance!
in these two images the colors do not represent reality, they are darker and more intense! is that I couldn't get the tone of the photos right! 

newly applied matte varnish (clear coat)!  

let's go do some rusty weathering in the track links! 

in this Panther I want to make less scratches and weathering than the normal! I wanna make him "almost brand new" than my regular assemblings