The painting of a Tamiya Jagdpanther
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The painting of a Tamiya Jagdpanther
Hello folks
For your curiosity I would like to show you the painting of a Jagdpanther I am building for a friend. It will show you the progress of this critical step (how to ruin or emphasize this really nice kit from Tam)
Your comments (bad or good) are always welcome, it is my way to improve myself. (When I ask my wife, she replies why putting dirt on a model that costs so much ??? [:@])
For your curiosity I would like to show you the painting of a Jagdpanther I am building for a friend. It will show you the progress of this critical step (how to ruin or emphasize this really nice kit from Tam)
Your comments (bad or good) are always welcome, it is my way to improve myself. (When I ask my wife, she replies why putting dirt on a model that costs so much ??? [:@])
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Outstanding work! [sm=thumbs_up.gif] Too bad you don't live closer ... you could paint mine!
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ORIGINAL: JerB
wow great job my friend [8D] how did you do your tracks? would love to hear your method, they look great
wow great job my friend [8D] how did you do your tracks? would love to hear your method, they look great
First of all, I washed carefully the metal tracks, after a full dry I applied a metal primer (white in my case but I'd recommend the gray one).
I mixed a gray, a brown and a tan to get a dirt color (I use tamiya acrylic paints with my airbrush system). I painted the tracks with that dirt mix.
Now the tamiya pastels....I mixed the rust pastel with a little amount of tamiya acrylic thinner to get a very rough mix that I applied on my tracks with a regular brush. I used a cotton swab to remove the paint from the contact points of the tracks so I get a natural metallic finish.
After that I used the sand pastel (poured as a powder on the track to get that dried mud effect)
Hope this helps.
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Nice work, Elefant! [8D]
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wow thats outstanding! im never going to be able to live up to those standards on my jagdpanther!!
nice work, thanks for showing!
cheers,
Matt
nice work, thanks for showing!
cheers,
Matt
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Thanks guys for your comments.
Brel, buy it with confidence, you wont regret the purchase. There are minor things to modifiy or upgrade to get a perfect JP but the base is already good.
Cheers
Brel, buy it with confidence, you wont regret the purchase. There are minor things to modifiy or upgrade to get a perfect JP but the base is already good.
Cheers
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ORIGINAL: Elefant
Thanks guys for your comments.
Brel, buy it with confidence, you wont regret the purchase. There are minor things to modifiy or upgrade to get a perfect JP but the base is already good.
Cheers
Thanks guys for your comments.
Brel, buy it with confidence, you wont regret the purchase. There are minor things to modifiy or upgrade to get a perfect JP but the base is already good.
Cheers
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I am mad I down loaded and printed the Jagdpanther manual from wackywheels's site and I have decided that I am completely insane to buy one now
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Congrats !!
Sometimes its good to do crazy things...[sm=bananahead.gif][sm=bananahead.gif]
Let us know when you receive it !!
Sometimes its good to do crazy things...[sm=bananahead.gif][sm=bananahead.gif]
Let us know when you receive it !!
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hi again, as i have a jagd myself, i was wondering if i may ask exactly what paints you used, and what you used for the dirt effects??[sm=confused.gif]
thanks, any help greatly appretiated! (as i would like to paint mine these colours!)
cheers again,
Matt
thanks, any help greatly appretiated! (as i would like to paint mine these colours!)
cheers again,
Matt
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wooo! welcome to the jagdpanther crew! where did you buy yours??? i got mine for £300 from evil-bay!! also got the transmiter and receiver for £60, the two batteries for £24 each (4000 mah) and the IR system for £25!!
good job!
thanks,
Matt
good job!
thanks,
Matt
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hi again, as i have a jagd myself, i was wondering if i may ask exactly what paints you used, and what you used for the dirt effects??[sm=confused.gif]
thanks, any help greatly appretiated! (as i would like to paint mine these colours!)
cheers again,
Matt
hi again, as i have a jagd myself, i was wondering if i may ask exactly what paints you used, and what you used for the dirt effects??[sm=confused.gif]
thanks, any help greatly appretiated! (as i would like to paint mine these colours!)
cheers again,
Matt
But the first thing I'd tell you now is : I hope you have a good airbrush
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ahhh, i dont. do you have the tamiya airbrush yourself, sorry you have probably said before but ie forgotten!!
thanks,
Matt
thanks,
Matt
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Matt you can get a good starter airbrush and use the aircans for a total of £30 ish and if you get on with spraying sort out a compressor if not sell it again
see here http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/pr...nt-air-brushes
see here http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/pr...nt-air-brushes
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Don't bother with the gas cans and don't even think about that air brush mine was so bad I gave the thing away now I use an Iwata some of you are going to do the moaning part about cost but let me put it in simple terms for you guys "it's like drilling a hole the Iwata is the sharp drill the cheep air brushes are the very blunt drill bits " which would you rather use?
Elefant, that is a very nice paint job you have done I see you have modeled the Jagdpanther from Schwerepanzer Jager Abteilung 654 by the extra stowage box and tool layout
Elefant, that is a very nice paint job you have done I see you have modeled the Jagdpanther from Schwerepanzer Jager Abteilung 654 by the extra stowage box and tool layout
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is it realy that bad ?? i dont ming paying up to £25 for one, could go higher but dont really want too
thanks guys, and thank fv432 for the suggestion!
cheers,
Matt
thanks guys, and thank fv432 for the suggestion!
cheers,
Matt
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Gas cans are a pain to use and one can wont paint the base coat on a 1/16 tank if you have a look on evilbay you will find a mini compressor I think they are about £50 this sounds a lot but you will probably use 4-6 gas cans on a 1/16 tank these will pay for the compressor and you will be able to use the compressor many times and sell it later if you wish as for the air brush go to the window open it and throw £25 out as they are less than useless if you just want to paint one or two things then the least I would use is a Badger, the Iwata is better and you can get one from evilbay for around £50
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The idea with the gas cans and the cheap brush is if you don't or cant get on with spraying then theres minimal loss £££££s wise
personally i use a badger bottle feed and it does me well with a homemade (free compressor and tank) made from an old refrigerator pump and refrigeration bottle [X(][X(]
in my case never got to buy a rolls royce to learn to drive in
in other words try walking before the running but again it's up to you
personally i use a badger bottle feed and it does me well with a homemade (free compressor and tank) made from an old refrigerator pump and refrigeration bottle [X(][X(]
in my case never got to buy a rolls royce to learn to drive in
in other words try walking before the running but again it's up to you
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i have a badger 200,does a good job,and you can change the needles for different flow rates, and they arnt to dear, overall a good starter airbrush