WIP

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1/35, 1/48, 1/72.
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Seamlines and pain.
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Almost like in 1/35, but less parts
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And almost no visuability
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Main crane section is growing
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Looks similar
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One column finished
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Incorrect details in plastic. Actually, one column should have all bars, the other - none. It was a built-in ladder for maintenance.
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I used plastic cement to fix decals
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I added some pipes and roughly depicted fan shafts, because I was annoyed by the presence of holes for them in the side walls of the armored hull
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Shots before gluing engine in place
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All subassemblies except projectile tips
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Magnets for hull
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Magnets for busket and new support for commander`s cupola to make it openable and not falling
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How to place 4x1mm magnets for adaptor and turret
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Added thin cable
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And that`s all for now! Much fun to build, lot`s of details to glue, time to rest now, lol
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July 10, 2023
Finally tried to spray Tamiya Surface Primer. Could skipped this step to have more crisp details, but whatever. Did a test with small leftover decals beforehand, but it would be easier if they actually provided spare pattern parts, not just logo.
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July 10, 2023
Wheels are not glued, but almost all the interior is. Still think it`ll be easier that way than dealing with scratches later. Ammo racks and hatches were fixed with patafix while priming so I won`t have additional layer of primer between parts.
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August 1, 2023
Not much progress this week. Base tone for Cremeweiss. Mr Color C69 + C39
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And highlights for it. C69 + GX1 + C318
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Probably not contact enough, will see after red.
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Lots of masking....
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Grey color will be done with brush. Will be much faster.
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So for base color I used mix of C131, C318, GX1, GX3. Hard to tell the proportions.
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And for highlights a.k.a. main color it was mostly C318, GX3 and C526. And few drops of GX1. The Tiger is for comparison with Ammo Mig's red from interior set. Interesting choice, but too orange I guess.
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August 3, 2023
Hoped to paint grey for engine with airbrush fast. Worked, but still need some fixes with brush.
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Next step is to paint details with a brush! The transmission, radios, green and black parts. And also ammo racks with airbrush (no masks this time!). And some effects!
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Black, grey and green.
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They say you can paint anything you can see on miniatures. Guess this is true: you can paint all visible torsion bars.
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More black, more grey, a little of green, silver and gunmetal. Also fixed red and white.
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Only ammo and radiators are left for airbrushing. Optics and machine guns also need some finishing touches. Probably I won't add chipping to the interior because of high density of details, but at least I'll add some dust later.
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Start of the worst part: ammo. Was it worth time masking at the end? Ehhh
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Some problems with silver, but not bad!
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Ehhh, the central ammo rack didn't receive enough orange clear
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Tips and their guiding rings. Probably those should be of steel color, but I have no intentions to redo them.
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What`s left here is to add decals and some dust
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August 18, 2023
I don't know how Ammo Mig continues making small mistakes with those color guides. They did them for lots of panther and tiger kits, but still... Even front and behind renders are not exactly matched (if you look at transmission colors, some parts are grey or red on front shot, and not those colors on behind shot)
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The problems with this particular guide are at least those:
1) You don't have clear views of transmission colors from both angles, what are red mountings and control rods, and what are not
2) How do the radios look?
3) Where are the med kits?
4) How does the turret look from below? 2 shots and no angle with stuff under seats!
5) Does engine cooling all red? Won't fans be sprayed with dark yellow with the hull?
6) What are those black boxes on the sides near front? Another periscopes?
7) How exactly does the ammo look? Did you notice that there are 3 types of ammo tips here?
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Dark yellow C39, highlights: C39+C69 + GX1
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Magnets still work
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Comments

29 15 February 2022, 01:03

Random Penguin
reddit.com/r/modelma..rabokran_suyata_148/ magnets in action

15 February 2022, 01:28

Random Penguin
Oh, I didn't think about why the difference with the instructions for the towers. It turns out that they were different - one with a ladder, and the other without.

15 February 2022, 03:16

Dylana Moss
This thing is REALLY cool. But way above my current skill level lol

15 February 2022, 05:06

Villiers de Vos
This project promises to be epic. Very nice progress this far.

15 February 2022, 06:18

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Amazing project.
The magnetized crane is a great idea 👍

18 May 2022, 11:19

Rui S
Looking great 👍 I'm in

21 May 2022, 19:28

Christian Abraham
I'm watching. The Panther will be my next build

28 August 2022, 17:51

gorby
It's looking great.

11 July 2023, 09:46

Villiers de Vos
Very nice progress.

13 July 2023, 16:16

Random Penguin
It looks like from 4 decal variants 3 are SS regiments. *Sigh* I guess no decals then. Does anyone if the boxart camouflage pattern was specific only for those?

18 July 2023, 16:30

Spanjaard
Impressive assembly, looking forward seeing it painted

18 July 2023, 19:54

Doubtingmango
The detail is stunning

18 July 2023, 20:19

Random Penguin
Did base colors for interior with airbrush. Next time will be details with a brush and ammo with airbrush.

3 August 2023, 21:47

Villiers de Vos
Beautiful.

4 August 2023, 05:32

Christian Abraham
Great. It comes out awesome

18 August 2023, 14:39

Random Penguin
Ammo racks done. Not great not terrible. Probably the guiding rings on them should be steel color, but at this point I don't care... Hard to paint them and the color guide doesn't help with this stuff at all. Did you notice that there are 3 types of ammo here or you just assumed that's another render mistake? Well, the ammo under the turret, the ammo on sides and ammo in vertical racks are different and have ammo tips with different profiles and length. At least I can tell that vertical ones are AP and should be black and side ammo is HE and should have green and steel tips.... But what exactly is the under-turret-floor-ammo I don't know. It's shorter than AP and have carving on rather middle of the tip sooo it's likely an AP shot, but it also misses the second guiding ring.... I just assumed it's also an AP, probably an earlier version.

18 August 2023, 15:07

Random Penguin
Decals have matt coating and it doesn't look like Tamiya Mark Fit Strong works on them. Probably need to seal them later

19 August 2023, 20:42

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Panther A + 16T Strabokran

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1:48 Panther A + 16T Strabokran (Suyata NO 001)

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