Yurii Prystai

The process of creating a metal barrel and cloth

Unfortunately, there is not much time for scale modeling in a country that was attacked by the country-aggressor russia, but our country is fighting and we are trying to live despite all the difficulties💪 It was very long pause, but there is some progress: - a copper cleaning rod was made. It was my first experience with hand-made metal parts. It turned out terrible, but I don't think it will be noticeable on the model at all. In order to make the bad result less noticeable, I damaged the cleaning rod. - installed a headlight with minimal modification - accessories and pioneer tools from photo etching - 🎉installed a horseshoe on the tank🥳 - found in a friend a metal barrel for jagdpanther👀 - made cloth from Tamiya epoxy putty (Quick type) 🥳Jagdpanther is now assembled and the painting phase can begin. All photos of assembled model I will add later⏲️ 🤯 Difference between plastic and photoetched parts is incredible:

Weld seams 💯 I made all weld seams from Tamiya epoxy putty. It was my first experience. All this model is my solid first experience😁 Also assembled rear hull storage boxes. And These very small locks on boxes have drow my crazy🤯

And these metal parts also took a lot of nerves from me))) The exhaust pipes had to be protected by metal parts. But I did not manage to fix them well and adjust to the dimensions. So I decided to pretend that the protective covers were torn off and only the fasteners remained 🤪 (Metal squares)

My first armor texture 🎉 The armor turned out well. I am 90% satisfied) It was an unsurpassed experience and no theory would be as useful as trying to do it with your own hands. I am sure that the next model with the armor texture will be well done at 100%.

Handmade stand for assembling and painting 🤪

WIP. Hull is assembled. Breech of gun is assembled 🎉 It was a long pause. But I did some steps in assembling. I glued a whole hull of Jagdpanther. It was like Lego)) But in the upper armor plate appeared a small gap. I'll create on this place a weld seam and all will be good) Changes on the hull: - Cutted off the plastic on the sides of the hull - I will create it from Voyager in the future; - Plastered places for fastening additional tracks. It will be created also from voyager photo-etched; - Cutted plastic seams. I'll change it with seams from Tamiya epoxy putty; - Cutted off the mudguards; - Deepened the welds places on the armor. I will make new ones from Tamiya epoxy; Other changes: - Assembled lifting jack - Assembled gun breech. It is a pity that it will not be visible. - Other parts which I didn't glue to the hull, because I'll make a cast armor on them. Also, I assembled a few parts from voyager. It was difficult without soldering iron, but it can be created very well with cyanoacrylate. It needs experience. Photo report🙂

What glue did you use? It looks very carefully and beautiful

Tracks are assembled. In instruction writes that each side consists of 87 tracks. I used 86. Maybe I could use 85, but what has been done cannot be changed 🙃 Each side I glued of two parts because my conductor for assembly trucks is too short. In general, tracks look very beautiful but I'm 90% satisfied with the result. I don't like what tracks look like on idler wheel on the left side. But it is my mistake. I glued tracks for a long time and so tracks badly curve during installation on wheels. I will be more careful in the future.

Before assembling tracks I painted some details that will be hidden behind engine grilles.

Героям Слава) 🇺🇦 Yes, these tracks look beauty. And a finished look is worth the work. I hope to glue tracks in one part without connected from two parts. In a few days I will do photos of done work. Your advice is good)

Tracks are ready for assembly ♨️ It was hard and interesting (no). 174 parts🥴 If I build a model on Panther base from Meng in the future, I will never assemble tracks from the model box. But it was a great experience)

Tracks. I didn't have enough time last week. Currently, I have cut off and sanded ~42%. I hope to finish tracks in one week🤞

Lower hull with wheels. I made an imitation of movement of the tank on a hilly surface (for future dioramas). On each swing arm, I cut the plastic that fixed swing arm (photo number 1). After that, the swing arms can be moved up and down. Then I fixed the formed position of wheels (glued rollers to the hull) And I have started assembling tracks. It will be long, very long. Each track consists of three parts🥴🤯 But I will do it

I have downloaded photos to google photos and have copied a photo's link. I will find why you can't see photos. UPD: I changed method of creating a link in prev post