Panzerkampfwagen V Panther

Martin Clements
Hoping to create a diorama with an ISU (JSU) 152 as the opponent

Sebastian Meyner
Following!

Kaspar Kallin
some more progress

Rafael Lang
wow! amazing!

Kaspar Kallin
thx Rafael, i hope i don't ruin it on the way some how.

Rafael Lang
thanks Mike!

Olivier
Rafael, I was not complaining or implying that You had done something wrong. But so many photographs found on internet have strange or wrong captions.

Rafael Lang
yes yes, i understand you Oliver! but that one, to avoid further confusion, it is better to reorganize the text to a more informal and simple understanding!

I'm was looking in German / English dictionary, and the correct meaning for 'Parade' can be to: walk or march in public in an ostentatious or attention-seeking way.

here are one of the caption of the same photo sequences: ''Frankreich, Paris.- Parade der Waffen-SS-Division "LSSAH" (Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler), Panzer IV vor dem Triumphbogen (Arc de Triomphe); SS-PK''

Olivier
Regarding photograph 21 there is something wrong with the name of the location. Bures sur Yvette is in the south west of Paris (23 km) but Bures and Arracourt are indeed in Meurthe et Moselle and approx. 360 km East of Paris. A US vs German tank battle happened there in September 1944.

Olivier
Picture 26 shows a very special and interesting camouflage pattern on the first Panther.

Rafael Lang
Olivier, ok, I got it! so in that case the confusion was mine! because I even remember when I organized these photos of seeing the Bures sign (photo 13) and unintentionally made the link as if they were the same cities

Kaspar Kallin
the 5. panther photo has the Daimler-Benz brackets for spare road wheels

Rafael Lang
thanks for correcting me! my mistake!

Tomaz Klemencic
Very nice progress! Finished the same one a month ago. Very nice kit to build.

Rui S
Looking good

Martin Dubovszki
Thank you my friends!

Rui S
Very nice work, and dio

Tomaz Klemencic
Thank you Rui!

Martin Dubovszki
That's an amazing job! My hats off to you sir!

Neuling
Appealing diorama!

Rui S
Excellent

Es-haq Khosravi
Impressing!

Neuling
Good work!

Choppa Nutta
very cool !

Neuling
Clean and careful build. More pictures please, a close up of the crewman!

Spanjaard
Nice

Bill Mathews
My first tank ????

Frank Krüger
Great model! Perfectly done !!!!

Bill Mathews
Thanks all !

Brian Eberle
Good reference photos

Rafael Lang

Treehugger
I guess this first photo must be from Rome (I've been to Rome.)

Rafael Lang
exactly Treehugger, this is in Rome!

R VG
Take note modellers! Very revealing to see how clean these German tanks were. At least before they were engaged in any battle. All that mud, rust and chipping ..., not much of that is going on in these pictures.

Rafael Lang
exactly that R VG, always appear that they had frequent and always very well done cleanings in the period between battles! I have also noticed this while reorganizing my photos collected over the years and publishing these albums!

Mike Kryza
A very nice collection, - A lot of pics are unknown to me.

Rafael Lang
Thanks Mike, I search them in A LOT of archives around of the world, like Germany's, Poland, British, American, Russian, and some web-sites, forums, etc

Łukasz Gliński
Nice one

Mirko Römer
Great little big cat!

Rui S
Nice cat

GR QX
@Rui S thanks bro!

Spanjaard
very nice

Rui S
Belo progresso Mate. Interessante ver o seu método de lagartas e rodas juntas na escala 1/35...

Rafael Lang
sim, as faço assim pois me é mais facil de montar o bloco completo do que individualmente!, pode-se também deixar as todas externas descoladas para poder mexer melhor nas de trás, ia fazer isso, mas quando dei por mim já tinha colado todas!

Mike Kryza
Interesting build. I'm in!

Rafael Lang
thank you Mike!

Derek Huggett
Nice and useful set of photos Rafael. I particularly like photo 5 with the Panzernest mobile MG bunkers on the flat-bed trucks behind the Ausf. D. - now there's a diorama possibility worth considering. Source of the plans (photos 14 & 15) might be useful to know as well. Thanks for sharing.

Rafael Lang
Great Derek! don't forget to tag me in the future diorama so i can see it then!

James C
Awesome work you've done on this oldie, and the figures look very impressive as well.

Oscar Benavent
Thank you Jim for your comments. I like to renovate any old model kit as well I can do it.

Günther Decock
Nice looking Panther, Oscar. And not a easy job wth the figures, I assumed.

Oscar Benavent
Thanks Günther. Yes, a lot of job...with pleasure and enthusiastic : )

scalemates
what type of file is it and what size?

David Walls
I tried two different files. Both are PDFs. One is scanned by me and is almost 33 MB, and the other I downloaded from RFM's website awhile ago. It is 52 MB (theirs is an unusual file in that text and instructional diagrams are sharp, but color call out images are really low res). I don't remember any errors messages when I uploaded them as it has been awhile now.

David Walls
Problem solved. It was file size. Since I tried it last year, I have a different scanner/printer and used higher compression settings. Much much much smaller file size (not even 7 MB) and it updated with no issues. Thanks for your help! Dave

Rui S
Excellent interiors

Anthony Flanagan
Well done!

Alberto Traverso
thanks!

Zsolt Czegle
Rafael: the real Pink Panther is Pink!
Tim: I"m also curious!

Julian: the new 3rd gen. AK is real great. I airbrushed without thinner, then I mixed with normal AK acryl white and thinner for the highlights. It worked also!

Zsolt Czegle
Wash is done.

Rafael Lang
good

Zsolt Czegle
Thank you Rafael!

Meanwhile the weathering is in progress...

Urban Gardini
Nice looking mate. I did my Pink Panther last summer. MOJO-Build Summer of '19 | Album by McCoy (1:Egg)

Zsolt Czegle
Urban Gardini: it's funny too!

Sometimes we should build something unusual!

Rafael Lang
being very great!

Urban Gardini
Yes, it's good to step outside the comfort zone and do something totally different once in a while. Those two was a great mojo boost for me last year as I after that built my F-111A in just about three weeks time. A frigging lightning speed build on my part as I'm a slow builder. But out of the four builds that I did finish last year only one was inside my comfort zone.

Spanjaard
never seen one like this before. interesting!

Sergey Nikitin
This is a fairly unique command vehicle. I was in the same division as Tiger Porsche

Spanjaard
thanks for the info

Rui S
Very Nice mix

Wim van der Luijt
could be me but that looks more like a mock up of a T-34 than a panther. The exhausts and angle of the rear plate, the cupola, the gun mantlet.....T-34

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Bart Goesaert
I do have the same idea as Wim, looks more like a wooden target/mock-up representing a t-34/76... Did a search on the picture, andcame across this: https://henk.fox3000.com/t34-2.htm

When scrolling down, you have 2 pics, and the caption is:

German T34 wooden Mock-up - (Dummy Tank)
This vehicle were by the Germans used for training and was mounted on a Polish TKS chassis

So these were used to learn how to attack a T-34

Rafael Lang
that's right, you are correct! this first photo was the mock-up of the T-34 made by the Germans, the uploading of the photos didn't work very well here on the smartphone, I slept during the upload and I didn't see that the remaining photos failed! later I will upload via computer and all photos will go, including OKH plans for the panther attrappe (decoy tank)

Ken Kolenovsky
I have a good supply of metal bits and Evergreen plastic. To cut the sections of metal, I have a REALLY small pipe cutter. The rest is just picking the right size according to the plans.

TD BARNETT
Looks Great!

Scott Dutton
Amazing work, you'd swearwasat least 35th scale not 48th, what incredible detail,skill and patience.

Olivier
I spy with my little eye...

Ken Kolenovsky
Thanks guys!

Wim van der Luijt
That is very impressive! Looking forward to seeing it mounted on a Panther!

Marco Preto

I'll be following this impressive build for sure!

Cheers
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William O.
Wow sir, just wow! Your scratch building skills are amazing, the amount of patience it must take, do this kind of work at this scale, is mind boggling! Kudos and 2 thumbs up to you sir! I'm totally following your builds. Cheers, Willy

Logan Eden
Good Morning, Ken That is a very nice looking kit. As you may not be aware, Tamiya makes this kit in 1/35 scale. You may want to pick a 1/35 scale up after you have practiced on this one. Catch Ya, Logan

Erikk
takom $$$

Richmond
Eugene - all you need to do is report them as doubles - to do that you press the + and then Actions - and then Doubles - its best to do this to both the items as it easier for the administrators to fix up if they can see both entries side by side. You can also go edit and change the numbers as well it will give you a waning but you can ignore and save.

Eugene Pels
Richmond, I do report them as double, but I learned (and got the advice from another member) that adding a comment about the what and why helps. Only reporting a double resulted in no action at all in the past, adding a comment resulted in the removal of (if I remember correctly) 9 doubles (!) a couple of weeks ago (and even adding a comment doesn't guarantee the removal of doubles, cause there are still a couple pending).
So thank you for the advice, I will report them both in the future, but I already knew all the other moves that you suggest, and didn't get the desired results when applied....

Richmond
Eugene - I think the shear number of doubles are very difficult for the volunteer administrators to handle - I have recently been reviewing PONTOS and must have reported nearly 100 just on that company alone. I have requested, through feature requests, that when someone reports a double that the entry is highlighted this would prevent the same double being reported over and over again and it would also give some confidence to all Scalemates that the system was aware of the double and something is being done or will be done. For your information here is the link to all the reported doubles SCM Newsfeed

By the way it takes time to keep loading there are so many - the list goes on for ever.