Panzerkampfwagen V Panther

Urban Gardini Great mate!

Rui S @ Christopher,
Check the last image. Not a very good one but...

Rui S Now, some Beutepanzers from Russia.
@ Rene Scheiblich,
Has you can see in the last photo, you don't need to worry about this issues

James C Really interesting Rui.

Rene Scheiblich Very interesting, thanks for sharing Rui!
#21 looks fine Maybe I'll shell out another 20€ to build one like this.

Rui S Glad you Mates find them interesting. I like to share my biblio.

Rui S Now, some photos of FAMO.
@ James,
I hope this can help you in some way. I'm going to look for some 8ton photos now.

James C Thanks for posting these Rui, the pictures of the driver position in particular are very useful. Cheers!

Spanjaard looking good

Sören Reifert Fantastc work Lukasz

Dave Morris Please visit the associated album for comments, updates & pictures for this project.

Alex Miner This looks pretty sweet. Would love to get my hands on a Rye Field kit, especially one with a full interior.

James Hatch It really is a sweet kit. I'll be starting mine soon.

Roy McKenzie Looking forward to your build

Michael Stewart Nice work - love Panthers!!!!

Jens Andrée 5 out of 5 was my score which I almost never say so it's a really good kit! Sadly not the same can be said about the zimmerit decals, but the tracks and suspension upgrade was really good. Easily the best Panther kit out there right now!

Sebastian Meyner HI Jens! Happy belated new year!!! One quick question: What exactly is wrong with the Zimmerit decal? Was thinking about to get the Meng Panther fully "loaded".
Btw: How is your Entwicklungsserie coming along?

Jens Andrée Hi Sebastian! Happy new year to you as well!!!
The Meng zimmerit water slide decals are just too thin to look realistic, and this is a shame because it worked so much better than the Tamiya vinyl zimmerit they did for a couple of models. I fully understand that you can't make really thick decals but the pattern isn't deep enough to look plausible.
I saw someone who'd painted their zimmerit with some sort of "pure" acrylics and the pattern almost disappeared... I'm using Tamiya paint and lacquers so I'm not worried here, but realistic it ain't sadly.
My Entwicklungsserie project is coming along nicely but it's a hefty build - and I've gone and added yet another kit to it... Some are part in GB's this year so I couldn't start all the E-100 at the same time for example, but I've got three of them on the desk right now! It'll take until the summer to complete these ones - just the plastic, and then paint, but that should go a bit quicker since they all share common colours.
It was nice to take a break from them though and build something different like this Panther
I'm also going to start my massive Schwerer Gustav diorama at some stage in the spring... I've got a busy year ahead of me for sure

Michael Hickey I plan on starting this as soon as my EE Lightning F.6 is finished.

Joerg R. When you look at the saved Inbox Review, you'll find pics of the instructions there

Dave Norman This could be interesting Jon. Looking forward to seeing this on the display table

Sören Reifert There it is
Count me in

Moritz Fentzahn You are welcome, bu it will take a while to complete the project-setup

Sören Reifert EME 2018 my friend

Dan M Hey James, cool project and nice additions but I have to warn you that those tracks are not correct for your version of the Panther, unless you are making an Ausf. D (which was the early Panther, not the A, I know, confusing but the germans started with the D )

Scott Dutton Nice project, I've also got a panther on the go, rescue kit

Ingo F Nice, i am in.

James C This was the first armour kit that I purchased about 3 yrs ago as it was on sale. I've heard it has a lot of inaccuracies, but i'm not too fussed. The zimmerite and tracks etc were purchased ages ago to use on it, but I did not know the tracks were for the D version. Given the other inaccuracies, I doubt it will make much of a difference. Hopefully they will fit as I hate to use rubber band tracks on exposed running gear. I haven't decided yet if I will build this or the type 90 next.

Dan M Well, regarding the fit hopefully the Tamiya german armour is more accurate than their allied armour in this regard. Their Shermans are notorius for having sprockets that will not fit tracks made by Bronco or others, not without some changes. Same for Academy which is not surprising considering that Academy copies Tamiya stuff. And it's not Bronco's fault, their tracks are actually accurate and they fit perfectly Dragon or Tasca kits.
If they won't fit a solution would be to try to get your hands on some spare sprockets from Dragon. Dragon kits usually have more pieces than you actually use in that build, maybe there are some extra sprockets as they sometime give multiple versions.

Holger Kranich Well Jens, they have already improved. And this is a hammer kit!

Panther Ausf.D (Tamiya 35345, 1:35)

Jens Andrée Makes you wonder even more why they still sell the wonky one when they obviously have made new models??? Ok, this is a D and mine's an A - but nonetheless it's a shame because noobs like me without knowledge buy these "vintage" kits not knowing better and if I hadn't already bought another two kits at the same time, with much higher quality, chances are I would have binned the box and quit before I got started! That would've been a disaster since I'm really enjoying scale modelling
Thanks for the link!!!

Patrick Hagelstein Welcome aboard Jens! I always have scalemates ready on my phone when visiting a model shop. Don't ask how I came to that precaution....

Jens Andrée Thanks Patrick! Yes, this seems to be an excellent resource - apart from all the friendly people as well!

Patrick Hagelstein With that new shiny box in one hand and all the reviews in the world through scalemates in the other hand I can survive a trip to my local model shop. After I post what a bought and what I plan to do with it all those people are there to help and answer all your questions.