ORIGINAL: pattoncommander

Nice Panther Dave.....you might want to use an Exacto knife and trim off that mold seam on the mantlet.

Paint chips are normal and come from water getting under the paint from extreme cold, also heat and from high pressure water hoses used to wash off the caked on mud. What was/is normally done is to use a hammer and chisel/screwdriver to get rid of the flakes and spot paint over it....if available. Chips also come from small rounds or schrapnel bouncing off the armor, so these are were constant PITA. (persicopes unfortunately don't chip and are NOT easy to remove once hit.)

Very nice looking Tiger. Very realistic and looks like the typical weathering of a crew applied winter camo. KV looks like a typical Russian tank where funtionality took precidence over appearance.

Strato50...thanks. Comes from years living in and working with 1;1 scale armor and later restoring my own. Books and museum artifacts do not portray everything.