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Ready for painting!
🕑 Added 2024-08-02 20:53:46 +0000 UTCMy friends, the Ferdinand has passed the final inspections and it's now ready for a fresh coat of camouflage paint! :D
In other words, I added all those tasty grime effects all over the model and finished the running gear. Again, acrylic dust effects might've become my new favorite thing, and they get along so well with grease stains painted with oils. This time I used Sepia and Engine Grease from 502 Abt., and Engine Grease is especially interesting because it's glossy and translucent. You can easily build up the opacity and also control the shine if you layer both oils on top of each other.
Also, if you involve a bit of speckling with very diluted oils, they nicely seep into the acrylic dust, adding very subtle variation to the finish.
The AP shells displayed at the front might not be my brightest moment, but the best thing I had was the kit-supplied plastic parts. I'm sure brass ones would've looked infinitely better, but it is what it is!
Of course, the finishing touches took me longer than I anticipated mainly because each stain has a strong impact on the overall finish and the last thing I wanted to do was to mess the model up at the finish line.
Funny side note, just as I was about to upload these photos here, I took a look at the historical images one last time and noticed that I forgot to add the antenna! Luckily, that's a quick fix :)
Comments
mike garcia
The ghostly preshading still shows through giving it an ominous look. You had fun with those decals, huh?
Jan Skácelík
Sakra to je pěkný!
Quintin Paparella
Amazing job! I’m loving how you improvised with the plastic shells and also how you did the model in general! Can’t wait to see the finished product!!
Cliff Leverette
I found a photo of the first Panther A or G will have to look again but the barrel was festooned with all sorts of greenery and flowers because it was finished, the first of that type to be made by the specific manufacturing plant. I'll look it up, I think the book was Nuremberg Panzer Factory. It has appeared in other online places with people trying to guess why it was decorated this way, and I guessed that it was a special Panther like maybe the 500th one built at the plant, then someone thought it was Christmas when it was finished, another person thought it was a bunch of drunk workers having fun after their shift was over. A couple of weeks later I found the photo and caption. The caption was written by one of the researchers who found the photo which had the notation written on it, resulting in the caption. Anyway, it has a bit of a look to it that shows the management was not strictly all business all the time!
Travis Keltner
THANKS!
John Ratcliff
Ha ha great minds fella
Night Shift
It's Octopus M2M, very neat tool!
Night Shift
That's the plan! :)
Night Shift
Oxide primer IS badass! :D Any big cat looks so dope with it.
Night Shift
I was wondering what those were! I saw them in reference images and just replicated the effect without thinking too much into it, lol
Travis Keltner
What is the painting base rig in these photos? I'm new to this and always curious about the various tools used.
Paul Adams
Wonderful stuff, very inspiring.
John Ratcliff
Stunning Martin I love it . Just a thought because it looks so good what about a little factory diorama to set it off ?
Bob Yack
This is amazing work sir. I never knew you could leave something in JUST primer color look so badass!! Talent pure talent!
Kevin SKB118
Nightshift Awesomeness!!! Looks amazing! 🏆👍👌
Rick
Amazing job, Martin!
Solomon Hollowell
Great work!
Stephan Joubert
Weld burn marks is a great touch to those hooks! Have not seen that on a model!👌
Mats Andersson
Awesome!
