panther build.. at last!

[Tim Bowman]

What Jeff said.

Nice touch on the wheel interiors Simon!

best regards
Tim

[Robert E Morey]

Simon,
Excellent work on the inner wheels. The details will look incredible. I'm embarassed I didn't even paint (only primer) all of my inner wheels, much less go to the detail you a going to. Loving every post!

Your wheels look different - I dont remember the hole through the center so big? I thought there was an oring between the wheels. Did you change the design and bore them out?

PS the bump stops are incredible too. Really nice work.
Kind regards,
Bob

[Per Sonnervik]

Hi Simon,

Excellent work, you´re becoming very good with the lathe and rotary table/indexing head.

Will do the Panther myself some day in the future but first some other models.

Thanks for sharing and looking forward to the next photos.

Cheers Per

[simon_manning]

nice to hear from you all and hope the build gives some interest, and "amusement", i like this kit, theres a lot you can do to it, the more i;ve worked on the panther the more i;ve got in to it and there's a lot of information available, robert and tim your posts have come in handy to look at,many thanks, the item i'm looking forward to is the infrared night scope construction, lord winstone likes the challenge,and there's fair few drawings around including the special stowage box on the rear,thanks to bodo he has supplied me a lot of info, good to know it stimulates some action on here , simon.

[Jeffrey Goff]

Hi Simon, are you going to have the night scope working, there are lots of small infrared led to be found, most of the small control units for TV ect use them, it would make it look authentic
regards
Jeff

[Pierluigi Patri]

Hi Jeffrey

can you explain how to assemble a working system?
The explanation should be very very "abecedarian" because I am very very unfriendly with electronic things.
Regards

P.S. does the system allow the view by a micro camera

[Jeffrey Goff]

Hi Pierluigi, when I said working I meant having a working infrared led inside the lamp.
regards
Jeff

[simon_manning]

wheel progress, my lathe skills are limited and slow,but enjoyed getting the wheels to this stage, it adds a bit extra to the final look, 32 nuts and bolts added to each wheel, one more to do then onto some more hull details. the colour combination looks very stark at the moment, i might weather a section just to see the result,see if it all tones down o.k. simon.

[Robert E Morey]

Simon,
The extra work you put into the inner wheels is stunning. Really nice work. You are making the rest of the Panther owners jealous! Keep the pix coming of your progress.
Bob

[simon_manning]

applied a little detail paint to see the effect, not so much on the center but to see what the bolts looked like, thanks bob for the encouragement.

[Tim Bowman]

MUST

STOP

LOOKING


Can't resist the urge to pull mine apart and redo everything to keep up with this new, standard level of detailing.

Seriously, beautiful as always Simon.

best regards
Tim

[simon_manning]

thanks tim, when you think how much you can squeeze out of these kits if you want to, instead of just building them out of the box why not have a scale replica of the real thing!or as near to it,cheap fun for 2-3 years of interest. best regards simon

[simon_manning]

Bit more trial and error with the wheels, There are a lot of variations of colours on this build.

Regards

Simon

[simon_manning]

This paint job reminds me of a hippy bus, not a tank. See how it looks when all the wheels and tracks are on

Simon

[Tim Bowman]

Far out Simon! Groovy.

Nice job on the hub caps. Will be interesting to see the next paint surprise.

Kindest regards
Tim