Rui S
Thank you very much for your kind words Michael. I will post some more photos soon 🙂 ... But, real outstanding is your Work Michael 👍

Fabian D.
Nice work on the brigde. Hope you can ceep the niveau... not building up pressure here😉

Rui S
Is my (almost finished so no pressure at all) first dio in the snow, as such, it is not possible to achieve yours high levels 🤔

Rui S
Hum???, maybe... But your Airplanes are simply TOP... 😮

Rui S
I've seen your projects... You rock mate. I Hope you still have more decades to enjoy...

Donald Medley
What references did you use?

Fabian D.
Rui, take your time, I´m in the game for more than a decade now (and about 4 years in 1:35)... not a day without learing something new. Saying you´re on a pretty good way is probably not enough.😉

Urban Gardini
Do the Tamiya Panther come with the option to do it as an early Ausf. A? Black 701 is a rather famous early Ausf. A as it's one of very few Ausf. A's that didn't have zimmerit. All Ausf. A's with the MG kugelblende on the front glacis had zimmerit. It was only a few, possible less than ten of the first 50 Ausf. A's with the MG hatch like the Ausf. D's that lacked zimmerit.

Excellent work on the bridge and your diorama is going to be a marvel to behold! This will be nice to follow...

Fabian D.
No, not without cutting the Kuglblende from the glacis, which would be an interresting approach though. But probably a mess to clean up.

H K
I would use scalemates.com/kits/108116-dragon-6160-panther-a which was rereleased at the end of last year, so should be available, and has the decals for 701.
I am a Tamiya fanboy 🙂 but their Panther A is best used for selfmade Zimmerit practise and such things 😉

Rui S
Sorry for the late answer, Mates. Donald, I've made a big study in all my books and magazines and ended up with more then 200 photos of wwII wooden bridges (Black and white and colour) ...

Rui S
Fabian, every comment is more than enough for me, and very important, so I Thank you all for them (Good or bad) doesn't matter. I'm here to learn and exchange experiences, not to impress the Judges, Purists, or Experts. I think I've something to show, so I do. without pulling narrow goods?... Strange for me was the fact that no one answered, to my comment «Help needed»... 🤔

Rui S
Urban, I was so concentrated in my bridge, that I neglected the panther study. I thought that if the turret was equal them it would be a ausf A. It was to late when I discovered that the "A" didn't have the hull machine gun. Not historically accurate as you will see, that's true. But I wanted to make one without the Zimmerit, so I think mine is one of that 10 from the first 50 ones...😉 As said above, sorry to disappoint you guys but I'm not a Panther expert and this will be the first and the last one I have built (unless is the recovery one). Like the Tiger and all the other ones, I want to build different model's. If I start buying ausfs a, b, c, d, etc, My wife would divorce me in a instant hehehe. As I said in "About me" keep the hobby cheap that's my thing... Not Keep on looking for the Ultimate perfection. I'm not a pro...😉 Anyhow I like to Imagine my projects in somewhat real circumstances that happened in the war and study them Like what happened in the Gniloy-Tikich river. Hope you understand my point of view... P.S Thank you for your nice words...

Rui S
Sorry HK, but as you can imagine I have to disagree with you...

Urban Gardini
You can make it without zimmerit if you like, it's your build but that kit wouln't be historically correct without zimmerit.

Rui S
Wich one, the ausf D? the kit is done Urban...

Urban Gardini
The Tamiya Ausf. A

Rui S
Sorry Urban, but I don't understand. The first images show an ausf. A n.º 701 without the Zimmerit, how can it be historically incorrect???

Urban Gardini
If you use the Tamiya Ausf. A for building Black 701 it'll be historically incorrect due to the kugelblende in the front glacis plate that is the only option in that kit. Black 701 was one of the first 50 Ausf. A's that all lacked the kugelblende on the front glacis plate and instead had the same MG hatch as the earlier Ausf. D had.

Rui S
Ok, thank you Gardini. Therefore has nothing to do with the issue of zimme. As said above I only notice that to late so it's not historically correct, yes. I had to leave with that. Unless I change that hatch. Is that the only difference?

Urban Gardini
No zimmerit is correct for Black 701 so that's ok. It's just the main feature with the hatch that's not ok. But there's nothing to to about that now as it's been built. I'm sure that you've done as fine job building the Panther as you've done with the bridge. So what's most important in the end is that you're ok with your build. I was too late with my input for you to be able to make something out of it. What you can do with it if you want to compete with your build is to put zimmerit on it and repaint the Panther and use some other suitable markings for it other than Black 701. Why? Here's why, all Ausf. A's with the fixed MG in the kugelblende on the front glacis had zimmerit, no exceptions there. Either way you do it I'm sure it'll be a great diorama in the end.

Rui S
Thanks' for your help and nice words Urban. I'm going to stick with the historically incorrect version. Compete is one thing that I'm sure that I shouldn't do, ever. I'm not that skillfull, so don't reach that kind of level...
Added some new bridge photos with snow...

Rui S
Humm, let's see, white paint, talcum powder, and Christmas Traditions, snow spray aerosol, sprayed over a bakery mesh...😄

Rui S
hehehe... Some photos from the "Thing"

Rui S
Thx Michael. "Alternative" I might say...

Rui S
Thx😉 , I think it's like we say: "the need the mother of invention" it's a bit difficult to find good modelling materials in Portugal, and when you find them they are expensive so... "Future" or "Pledge" are things that we can't find, for instance...

Rui S
hehehe... Not so far in Portugal... but I also do that with my ever growing stash. you change your Profile image?

George Bacon
Great project! Can't wait to see more 👍👍👍

Rui S
😢

Rui S
Thank you very much George. Your words are a great compliment... I will post some more photos soon 🙂

Rui S
Painting the thing. As they say in the first image «is a freshly delivered tank. Whitewash camouflage was applied with notable care». Some new photos...

Gábor Bélik
Impressive. The snow looks great.

Rui S
Thank you very much Gabor, Your words are very important for me...😢

Rui S
Thank you very much Michael, for your motivating words. Glad you like it...

Es-haq Khosravi
Great job!

Rui S
Thx Es-haq Khosravi, do you really think so? 🙂

Urban Gardini
GAAAAAH! That L/70 doesn't look the way it should. I've got an Dragon barrel that you can have if you want it!

Rui S
Thank You Very Much for your very friendly offer Urban 👍 , but I've already fix the L/70 with Humbrol model filler, and I think it's just fine now, as you will see in the next photos...😉

Urban Gardini
Good mate!

Rui S
Can't thank you enough Urban, really a nice unexpected offer 👍

Urban Gardini
Nothing special I'd say, it's just the way our community work. A bit of modelling karma as you get help from a fellow modeller with a missing part or decals or something else without any real value and it just happens so that a fellow modeller have just that part in his/hers box of spares. I common answer when the receiver ask what the giver want as a compensation is nothing, it's free of charge but somewhere down the line the situation may be reversed and you happen to be able to help someone out, do that then. So it's modelling karma with it's ripples that spreads all over the world. We modellers do help each others in as many ways we can, be it with parts, advice or tricks, you name it. It's just the way the modelling community works!

Rui S
I understand that, Urban. It's good to belong, and know mates that are willing to help... 👍

Leif Adams
So cool! The tank, is of course, awesome. What really impresses me? The tread marks/leavings of the tracks in the snow. Wow. Just, wow.

Urban Gardini
Looking great mate! But I spotted an error that is easy to correct for you. The panzerfaust should be dunkelgelb.

Rui S
Thank you very much for your nice comments Leif...

Leif Adams
All your projects are impressive, Rui!

Rui S
I'm Very glad you like them Leif... hoping to do better in the next one, after completion of the last 3... 🤔 Always in the end I feel that I could/should done better 😄

Rui S
Hi Urban, that's completely true, I've been making that mistake since my "9 SS Panzerdivision - SOMEWHERE NEAR THE TRAIN STATION". project... 😠 Like we say in Portugal "What is born crooked, later or never straightens"😉 I've looked in all my extensive reference library for one in grey (just for excuse) and I think I never found one, hehehe. Nice to know you saw it with attention...

Urban Gardini
Glad to help!

Rui S
Thx👍

Rui S
Hi Urban, I've look again and manage to do a new photoalbum with some strange coloured Panzerfaust's. Might after all not be an error??? 😮

Matthias Weiss
Like it! Looks great!

Rui S
Thanks a lot Matthias, it's a great compliment coming from you. I'm really glad that you like it...

Ivo Fanczi
Awesome,great,go on with the good work!

Es-haq Khosravi
Great job!

Rodders61
Hi Rui.
Do you still have the instructions for the panzerkampfwagen V panther nr 30223 I have this kit but no instructions. If you have could you supply me with a copy.
Kind regards. Rod

Rui S
Hi Rodders61, I have to scanner them. You can send me a PM with your email and when I can I will send you the PDF.

John Dunbar
The bridge construction is awesome! Very inspiring!

Rui S
Thx mate. The photos are a bit hold, and don't show the finalized dio.

Richard
Nice work, thanks for sharing, and some ideas...

Spanjaard
really fasntastic panther and great dio, really good
about those instructions, i would suggest that once you scan them you can upload them to the kit database, so other people in need may use them in the future😉

Michael Hickey
Very pleasing to the eye with lots to look at. 👍

gorby
Exceptionally good Diorama Rui.

Rui S
Hi mates,
Thank you all for your nice words & comments. Much appreciated.
As usual on my latest projects the photos aren't the final ones, but they show the idea...😢

@Spanjaard, I'm currently photographing my stash instructions to upload then in the future.

Spanjaard
thanks in everybody's name 🙂

John Dunbar
Really cool, Rui! 👍

Donald Medley
Beautiful

Rui S
Thank you for your nice comments, John and Donald.
Much appreciated. Maybe one day I will take the final photos...😉

Xerxes
like the dio. great build

Ulf Petersen
Excellent Diorama!👍 Everything matches perfectly.

Rui S
Thank you very much, Mates.
@Ulf, coming from an expert in dios, your comments feel like honey😉

Ulf Petersen
Wow! Thank you so much for this compliment, Rui!🙂

MarSeif
Very well done, Rui S!

Dietmar Bogatzki
Eye Candy Rui 👍

Villiers de Vos
Great work and lots of visual interest

Günther Decock
Dag Rui, knap gedaan. En mooie details. Ooit wil ik ook met een dio starten, maar weet niet waar te beginnen. 🙂

DAVID C
Rui S, extraordinario trabajo, muy detallado, casi se puede ver a PanzerMeyer viendo a los granaderos marchar al frente. Un trabajo genial, gracias por compartir

Rui S
Mates. Thank you for all your kind comments and likes.
I thought this One had gone to Oblivion 😄
@ MarSeif, glad you like this work. After this photos i've made 3 more figures and some other bridge details.
@ Dietmar Bogatzki, I think I may take new photos of the finished dio.
@ Günther Decock, if you see the álbum of my first dio "My very first - project". I just used a wood plank gypsun and pepper 😄 in the second "9 SS Panzerdivision" I used a photo frame, coffe, hair net from my grandmather, and some vegetation.
@ DAVID Cuesta, obrigado pelo seu simpático comentário. Fico feliz por ter gostado. O prazer é meu. Quando tirar as fotos do trabalho concluido, o oficial já está acompanhado.

Spanjaard
Certainly deserves not to go into oblivion! 👍

Rui S
Thank you Spanjaard, very kind of you.
I will take photos of the new figures and the bridge detail I added after this photos.

Ben M
This is fantastic, the figures really make the scene.

Rui S
Thank you for your nice comment Ben, I apreciate it very much.
Some Mobilphone photos are not so good. Sorry for that.

Ingo F
Awesome mate! 👍 Love it!

Rui S
Thank you for your kind comment Ingo, I'm really glad that you like it.

Jan Peters
Very nice work, love the amount of figures you've added, really brings the scene to life

Neuling
I agree with Jan. Some pictures look like real life photos.

playtime 222
Oh damn that's good.

Martin
really really good one

Rui S
Thank You very much for your comments, mates. (and for the likes too).
@ Jan, I thought (and write) in the Marder II D_16 Inf Mot Div_Rasputitsa_Kalmykiya album, that 14 figures where a alltime record, but afterall this one has 15 figures 😄
@ Neuling, glad you stoped by. I don't know how to work with photoshop, so Improvised and started to use the pc screen in the background 😉
@ playtime 222, It's great to read your comment.
@ Martin, I'm very glad you like it.

Jean-Michel Tilquin
Just wow!

James C
I don't recall seeing this one before... unless I'm going senile? LOL. Very nice dio mate and great job on painting that Panther a single colour, yet still making it look interesting 👍

Rui S
Woh, some more kind comments from two excellent and most talented modelers.
I must be doing something right and nice 😉
@ James, judging by your work, one thing I'm sure senile you aren't. 🙂
Thank you both very much. I really really apreciate it.

Jean-Michel Tilquin
Sure you are!

Rui S
Thanks Mate. Still so much to learn. But I'm happy that I'm finishing some old projects and practicing.

Peter Batin
Very thorough and serious work!? Bravo!??

Rui S
Thank you for your kind comment Peter. Coming from such a tallented modeler as you are, it feels really good 👍

Peter Hardy
Mind blowing in every detail. Another work of art! Bravo Rui. What's next?

Rui S
Thank you for your kind words Mate. Apreciated.
I have also been thinking about what to do next 🤔
I still have two projects to complete. The Autumn 1944 Jagdpanzer Tiger (P) Elefant, with a horse and maybe two figures and the base and diorama for the Esci sdkfz 10/4.
But I'm also in the mood to build something, like a armoured car motorcycle or tank for the beginning of WWII ... Not feeling ready yet for a plane. I Don't know yet.
We'll see 😉

Peter Hardy
Well you know my thoughts but considering I know nothing about German armour or the European theatre I will wait to see what you come up with.

Peter Batin
I like your approach to work. It is featured in documentary photos. Very few modelers do this. This is a classic quality style. Thanks for the compliment. Good luck and inspiration!

Rui S
@Peter Hardy, please, share your thoughts with us 🤔
@Peter Batin, thank you again, I use that approach to see if I can and help making something more real. That's a defensive move from me 😉 but, I get the inspiration on those old photos. Some are unbelievable, and others great storytellers just by themselves

Peter Batin
This is very correct.? This is how real masterpieces are built.?

Peter Hardy
Rui, desert scene before the charge of the Australian Light Horse at Beersheba. Model Ts and horses.

Peter Hardy
Wow!

Rui S
Well Peter, I've started a horse for my elefant on the Outono / Autumn 1944 album, that's what i can do for now 😉

Peter Hardy
There were 800 horses Rui, maybe you should make some molds? Nobody will notice if you do two the same!

Vytautas
Same here, agree with all the others, a top job. Just super!

Bruce Huxtable
Inspirational in all aspects - great work for sure ?

HSC1932
This is amazing

Rui S
Thank you Mates. This is already a old work, but I apreciate your kind comments very much.
@ Vytautas, coming from a weathering Expert, I'm really honored.
@ Bruce, I'm very glad you like and comment it.
@ OttovonLindberg, I also enjoy and Respect your amazing work.

Peter Schijvens
Really love all the details, beautiful ?

David Pearson
Excellent work, love the detail.

Rui S
@ Peerke, Thank you for your kind comment. Not my most recent Dio but I sure enjoy a lot doing it.
@ David, Thank you very much for your comment. I'm really happy that you like it.

Günther Decock
Hey Rui, knap gedaan. Een dio met een verhaal. Volgens de knepen van het vak. Als ik ooit aan een dio start kom ik zeker bij u voor raad.

Rui S
Hi Günther, Thank you for your kind comment. I'm really glad you enjoy this one.
I look forward to see a dio from you soon and yes, you can count on me to help, if I know how 😉

Pedro Braga
Brutal!!!
Rui, os seus dioramas são fantásticos!

grappa_0_0_0
It's incredible what you managed to accomplish with such an old kit. great job.

Bobby Thumbs
very nice work

Günther Decock
Thx, Riu. 🙂

Rui S
Thank you very much mates, your comments are most welcome.
@ Pedro, fico feliz por gostar e pelo termo usado 😄
@ grappa_0_0_0, That's what I've been trying to achieve, nice results with outdated materials glad you noticed 😉
@ Bobby, I'm glad you like my dio
@ Günther, be welcome, but I'm not sure why...
Also I would like to take the oportunity to thank all the likes from mates that i didn't correspond. Thank you all.

David Taylor
Smart dio.

Daniel Klink
Very catchy and excellent in detailing and storytelling!!
Excelente Rui!!! Bravo 👍👍

Rui S
Thank you for your kind words, mates. I apreciate it.
@David, glad you think so.
@Daniel, glad you stoped by and comment, this One. Comming from such a tallented modeler, your words mean a lot to me.

Chan Li
awesome
great effort and great job, I'm planning to build up a German panther D down the road, but I would never be that good to rebuild a story scene like you did.

Rui S
Thank you Chan Li, I'm glad you like this one.
I'm sure that if you dig into it, you manage to choose the story and do a good dio.

Alan G
Very nice indeed Rui

Robert Blokker
That turned out into a nice diorama. Was fun to go through the progress.

Rui S
Thank you very much mates. I apreciate your coments.
@ Alan, I'm very glad You stop by and like this one.
@ Robert, I just hope my dios evolve into something as near as possible to your magnificent dios. I'm really glad you enjoy my journy in this one, it means a lot to me. Thank you.

Rewop
Beautifully done. Looks fantastic.

Rui S
Thank you very much Rewop, I'm glad you like it and sotp by to comment it. Apreciated.

Mr James
It really does look the bees knees. I've got a soft spot for winter dio's.

Rui S
@ Mr James, thank you for your comment. This was my first attempt on that, and I know it could be improved a lot but I always prefer not to come back on old dios, to spend that time in doing other new kits and see the improvements

Mr James
I wish I was more disciplined, I cant help but tinker as a go along. Probably why I have finished as the stuff I started.

Rui S
I understand you, sometimes it's difficult not to come back, but another advantage is that at least you don't mess it up if it goes all wrong 😄