That camo is a pretty difficult one to paint and you nailed it!! Also made a video of it!! Excellent job done Rick, cudos to you my friend. Thanks for sharing, take care and keep up the good work!
My problem was also the track they are indeed fragile mine came with link broken already and I heady to cement the links. And also no reinmetal logo as you mentioned :(. No 3d printer so I'm just gonna have to live without it. Great video and I finally saw this kit painted. It looks nice!
I hated these tracks. I would hVe worked threw them had i not had the spare set in my stash. I'm selling my 3d designed stuff threw Mad Modellbau out of Germany. Daniel can print them and get them to you.
Thank you. The real vehicle has a couple different patterns. The decals provided are for the patern thst has thin camo. I wanted to do the thicker pattern.
Ok mine will be a bit more brownish grey like on the photos because to me it always looked a little bit more brownish. Kind of the color of an F-35 in certain angles. Nice build overall :) Also on the optics i used an old CD to get that color shifting, and on some of the others i used some left overs from that tape that was sold eearlier to create these lens effects for Leopards etc.
Ya I struggled with the oaint color and decided on a more gray. I've seen pictures where it's more brown. That's not a bad idea on the lens. I'll have to try that.
@@Ricks135scalemodels Yeah that's the problem with scale modelling :D It's hard to find the exact paint or at least replicate it. I had that problem on my F-35 which has a metallic shine and also sometimes appears to be more brownish and on others it is grey. WIll be a challenge to find the right color for this tank, also for that lime green.
So I am building the latest Tamiya Leopard, the 2A7V. Tamiya has always been my favorite model kit maker. But THAT model is the WORST. And that is because of the tracks. It took me hours upon hours to make those tracks. The hinge pins break too easily, and the tracks do NOT always snap together, nor do they stay connected. No jig provided. No fun at all. I am spoiled by those Tamiya rubber band vinyl tracks that go on in seconds. But not those crap tracks. VERY aggravating. I have been buying Tamiya kits since 1978, but I am thinking that if Tamiya continues to use that track style, I may never buy another Tamiya kit again. Then I noticed that 2 kits that I have at home waiting, the A8 and THIS Panther (apparently the name "Cheetah" was not good enough) BOTH have very similar tracks. Oh what fun. So I clicked on your vid here to see how you built the tracks. These may be better because the hinge pins are double and more sturdy and less likely to break. Is there is a jig supplied in the Panther kit? Because there appears to be small squares on the track sprues. Did you build these tracks using a jig?
Wow.. I have concerns on those tracks from tamiya also. The 2a7v kit is sitting on the shelves awaiting its turn. I personally like the leo tracks that you assemble like in the border and rfm. The Amusing hobby had those same tracks. You can buy the RFM tracks also. I was using the tool gig but most of the time, I dont.
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Great work on the masking and tracks Rick. Nice video all round my friend
Thank you Steve.. it worked out great.. makes me want to another masking project
Great review and demonstration. Many thanks
Thank you
Very nice indeed sir. Going to try a digitized NATO 3-tone on mine, when I get around to it😊
That should look sharp
That camo is a pretty difficult one to paint and you nailed it!! Also made a video of it!! Excellent job done Rick, cudos to you my friend. Thanks for sharing, take care and keep up the good work!
Thank you George.. I actually had to do a lot of hand painting and followed your style!!
Awesome quality video and model painting
Thank you!!
wow Rick the kit looks great buddy nice work on the extras keep them coming buddy
Thank you!!
Excellent Job.👍
Greetings from Germany.
Thank you and greetings
Nice painting and detailing Rick, looks nice so far.😊
Thank you David
Hi Rick, that samobscheme came out absolutely outstanding, you should be congratulated on the great finish, best regards from Australia 👍👍👍👍
Thank you Les. It took a while to mask but I am really happy. I thinking I'm gonna do another with the nato colors in the digital pattern fir fun
Excellent camouflage job Rick :)
Looks damn cool mate.
Thanks for sharing it .
Have a nice weekend and bench time my friend :)
Thank you Ozzy!!
Very beautiful result!
Thank you!!
Great build. Wish the modern digital camouflages actually worked.
Ya.. looks crazy.
My problem was also the track they are indeed fragile mine came with link broken already and I heady to cement the links. And also no reinmetal logo as you mentioned :(. No 3d printer so I'm just gonna have to live without it. Great video and I finally saw this kit painted. It looks nice!
I hated these tracks. I would hVe worked threw them had i not had the spare set in my stash. I'm selling my 3d designed stuff threw Mad Modellbau out of Germany. Daniel can print them and get them to you.
Great video.
How come that you aren’t using the precut masking sheet provided in the kit?
Thank you. The real vehicle has a couple different patterns. The decals provided are for the patern thst has thin camo. I wanted to do the thicker pattern.
Ok mine will be a bit more brownish grey like on the photos because to me it always looked a little bit more brownish. Kind of the color of an F-35 in certain angles. Nice build overall :) Also on the optics i used an old CD to get that color shifting, and on some of the others i used some left overs from that tape that was sold eearlier to create these lens effects for Leopards etc.
Ya I struggled with the oaint color and decided on a more gray. I've seen pictures where it's more brown. That's not a bad idea on the lens. I'll have to try that.
@@Ricks135scalemodels Yeah that's the problem with scale modelling :D It's hard to find the exact paint or at least replicate it. I had that problem on my F-35 which has a metallic shine and also sometimes appears to be more brownish and on others it is grey. WIll be a challenge to find the right color for this tank, also for that lime green.
@JazzJaRa so true. I depends on where you will have it displayed. There no perfect answer.
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I think I would have Just used Standard Nato Woodland camo scheme on it,Just to See how IT Looks 😁😁
That would look sharp!
So I am building the latest Tamiya Leopard, the 2A7V. Tamiya has always been my favorite model kit maker. But THAT model is the WORST. And that is because of the tracks. It took me hours upon hours to make those tracks. The hinge pins break too easily, and the tracks do NOT always snap together, nor do they stay connected. No jig provided. No fun at all. I am spoiled by those Tamiya rubber band vinyl tracks that go on in seconds. But not those crap tracks. VERY aggravating.
I have been buying Tamiya kits since 1978, but I am thinking that if Tamiya continues to use that track style, I may never buy another Tamiya kit again. Then I noticed that 2 kits that I have at home waiting, the A8 and THIS Panther (apparently the name "Cheetah" was not good enough) BOTH have very similar tracks. Oh what fun.
So I clicked on your vid here to see how you built the tracks. These may be better because the hinge pins are double and more sturdy and less likely to break. Is there is a jig supplied in the Panther kit? Because there appears to be small squares on the track sprues. Did you build these tracks using a jig?
Wow.. I have concerns on those tracks from tamiya also. The 2a7v kit is sitting on the shelves awaiting its turn. I personally like the leo tracks that you assemble like in the border and rfm. The Amusing hobby had those same tracks. You can buy the RFM tracks also. I was using the tool gig but most of the time, I dont.
@@Ricks135scalemodels Speak of the Devil, and now you have a 2a7v review video!
Just some words for the old algorithm
Thank you