Steve,s Panther build

Kent Wiik · Post by **Kent Wiik** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 4:32 pm

Nice behind Steve...

Very skilled works there mate.
Keep the photos coming please.

Kind regards
Kent

Adrian Harris · Post by **Adrian Harris** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 9:49 pm

Lovely details Steve.

Where do you find such a mix of fastener sizes ?

Adrian.

Steve Norris · Post by **Steve Norris** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 11:25 pm

Hi Adrian.

Most of my fasteners come from Macclesfied model engineering supplies, They are fairly local to me and the best thing is that i can go and trawl through their fastener racks and pick what i need (No guess work needed).

They do have a online service but i don,t know if they have anything that EKP cannot supply.

Regards

Steve

Adrian Harris · Post by **Adrian Harris** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 6:44 am

That's interesting, as I use Macc Models as source for some of my fasteners already, as well as brass sections

Adrian.

Robert E Morey · Post by **Robert E Morey** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 5:51 pm

Steve,
Excellent detail on the pipes and bins. Your efforts look excellent. I like the texture you put on the pipes themselves - it will look great once "rusted" and weathered. Keep posting your work, great inspiration for the Panther crowd..
Bob

Steve Norris · Post by **Steve Norris** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 5:23 pm

As the rear plate is now almost complete i have decided to do a bit of work on the hull sides. I found that the gear cases looked a little plain and could do with a bit of detail adding, I started by reprofiling the mounting flanges and adding new mount bolt positions, Coresponding threaded holes have to be drilled and tapped into the hull side plates. I next added a couple of reinforcing ribs to each housing and what i think may be an oil drain port. a final bit of texturing was added to produce a cast appearance. Although the end results are not an exact copy of the originals they do look a lot better.
I will have to wait until after final assembly to see how much of this extra detail is visable.

More to come

Steve

Robert E Morey · Post by **Robert E Morey** » Fri Feb 11, 2011 8:42 pm

Steve,
Excellent work, your modifications add a lot of detail. I don't know if anyone has attempted this mod before. Bob

simon_manning · Post by **simon_manning** » Fri Feb 11, 2011 10:09 pm

this is the first time iv'e seen this mod on the forum, i was tempted,but changed my mind,to difficult for me, well done steve, regards simon manning,

Steve Norris · Post by **Steve Norris** » Sat Feb 12, 2011 10:22 pm

The next part added to the left hull side is the "Anschlagblock", This fits around and below the first swing arm on the left side of the hull. I think the purpose of this was to stop the swing arm which points forward being pushed down to far and breaking the torsion bars if the track bunched up on top of the road wheel. This could occure if the track broke when driving forward. It was not neccessary to fit a stop on the right side as the swing arm pointed backwards.
Also shown in the photo is the gear housing which is a temporary fit and the bump stops provided by Steve Winstone.

The next shot shows the swing arm and how it hits the stop when deflected down.

The final shot shows both hull sides with Steve winstone,s bump stops fitted.

More to follow

Steve

Brian Leach · Post by **Brian Leach** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 2:32 am

SWEET!

Nice build

Did you make the part from scrach?

Looking forward to your work

Thanks for sharing!

Brian

Tim Bowman · Post by **Tim Bowman** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 3:06 am

SUPER DUPER SWEET!

Just awesome Steve.

Best regards
Tim

simon_manning · Post by **simon_manning** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 9:31 am

this is getting very impressive steve, getting the most out of the kit and forming it into a 1/6 scale replica, excellent to follow! regards simon.

John Fitzsimons · Post by **John Fitzsimons** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 11:39 am

Excellent work. Great mods.

Kent Wiik · Post by **Kent Wiik** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 11:40 am

Nice Steve!

I have also had this one on my "wish list" but was unsure if there was enough space between the outside hull / swing arm to make the LS 2:nd Anschlagbock, I regarded the bolt heds might be a problem.
Can you or anyone else please say how much free space there is?

Most of the nice details at the hull sides are in fact almost invincible behind the row of wheels but this Anschlagbock low in its position is actually visible...from the front...but you need to get down (a lot

).

Thatâ€™s why I want one on my Panther and I am glad you Steve took the lead here.
(Btw, did you add the locking tabs?

)

Kind regards
Kent

Steve Norris · Post by **Steve Norris** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 12:35 pm

Gents,
Thanks for the kind comments.
Kent,
There is a 4mm gap between the swing arm and hull side, i have used 3mm aluminium plate to make the Anschlagbock with the M3 bolts recessed into the plate. Its a bit tight but it will fit.
I have not added the lock tabs yet

but will try to get some fitted soon.
Regards

Steve