This page is to document the building of revells 1/72nd scale Panther Ausf A. The completed Panther will depict Ernst Barkmanns famous "424" in the St. Lo area of Normandy July 1944.

Tuesday, June 21, 2005


Here are the edges and the recipe. The first thing i did was paint the tracks with a very dark brown mix, nearly black infact. Then a light over spray with Tamiya flat earth XF-52 in a random pattern followed by the pastels. I use standard chalk artists pastels from the art shop that I grind up into dust. I used three colours here, a bright orange, chocolate brown and black that I mixed into 3 little piles. The first 50/50 orange with chocolate the second a 50/50 chocolate and black and the final pile was pure orange. I started with the choc/orange colour mixed with lots of water, I dabbed it randomly over the entire track. I did the same thing with the choc/black and by the end of it over 85% of the track had been hit with the diluted pastel mixes. Now comes the orange colour, this I diluted much more than the other colours, much much more. I kept the orange to the edges and between each link then I dobbed a few sparse random splashes on the tracks themselves. Voila.

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