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I have collected my refurbished Armortek Panther from Lee Sellers (www.newthorpemodels.co.uk) and have to say from start to finish Lee has been fantastic. He has kept me in touch with progress all the way and the finished tank is superb. It now runs smooth and looks, in my opinion, brilliant. I gave Lee the black & white photo below to go by and my avatar. His interpretation is spot on and I am delighted.



Panthers in the Haguenau Forest January 1945 during Operation Nordwind



Kent's & Armorpax's upgrade MG ball mount.



Bullets holes and battle damage



Camo prior to applying the Whitewash



Masking added



Whitewash applied



Whitewash finished now the weathering is applied.



And the finished Panther .

Lee also upgraded the electrics, fixed my suspension, got my figure working, installed Steve Winston's light and mudguards, got the sound to work as it should and also the smoker.
If your stuck for time or just having the same problems I had then I can highly recommend Lee to sort it out. Thanks Lee for all your hard work .

Antony

Antony,

Too cool for words! What a great representation of a late Ausf G. Nice work Lee.

Congratulations Antony on a great, well detailed, finished model.

kind regards

Tim

Looks fantastic, I am sure you are very pleased. Great work Lee.

Jim

Absolutely brilliant work Lee, and that is a great choice of camo scheme Antony. The other day I was watching "Band of Brothers", an HBO Cable TV miniseries following US Army paratroopers from D-Day to the end of WWII, and one of the episodes had them fighting through Haguenau. I should have looked for your Panther!

Oh, and that's a good looking Tiger in the background too!

i like that, somthing different.

and looks superb nice work lee

Very nice Antony . Can you tell us about the eight big white blobs of paint on the foward shultzen skirt ???? Did you have photos of this on the real machine . Dale

Hello Dale

Thanks for that. The 8 Blobs as you say were taken from a book by waldermar trojca. The skirts was from the factory in red oxide and painted in the field I tried to get it as close to the photo i saw. another photo was just a large circle of white paint.

To all

This was the hardest paint to do that i have done to date. Ive allways shyed away from white as it is hard to get right. And im glad this one came out perfect. Thank you for all of your kind comments. Now on with the next.

Lee

PS Antony if you win best panther at the Open day I get the Prize

Hi Lee
What paint and how much thinners did
you use on the white to get the slightly transparent look
on the winter white wash was it air brushed?
Also how did you do the bullet holesin the side skirts ?

Thanks

Derek

Hello Derek

The thinners i use is the same as the paint i use so to get correct thinning of the paint.The key to airbrushing is lots and lots of thin coats. Also a Good quality airbrush Mine are in the region of £250.00 each and A good Compresor and fliter regulator. I think that on Antonys Panther there was a total of 20 coats of paint and all of my work is air brushed and for the holes i use a drill 1.5mm.

Lee

Hi Lee
I have a good air brush and compressor I was wondering what make of paint and the ratio of thinners eg (20 : 1)

Thanks again

Derek

Hello Derek

I use Tamiya and valejio paints and mix them up anything from 2:1 to 5:1 if that helps.

Lee

Hi Antony,

Your Panther is looking absolutely fantastic!! Really awesome!!!
That's what I'am talking about Lee!!!Spot on!!

Matthijs

Lee,

A smart job with the airbrush, I like the reverse painting to cover the existing cammo with the white, that is a difficult technique to master and if it goes wrong a lot of work to put right!!! A credit to your effort.

Anthony,
Thanks for posting the photos. Interesting choice of camo scheme and excellent execution by Lee. Superb weathering job. Great job all!
Bob