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.

Monday, April 10, 2006


Here is Mr Barkmann himself! I�m pretty happy with how he has turned out. All I need to do is add some gloss to the lenses on the binoculars and that�s it.
He was painted entirely with Vallejo model colour acrylics. The undercoat is pure white.
Flesh tones:
Basecoat of 845 sunny skintone mixed 50/50 water and applied in 3 coats.
1st highlight was the base colour mixed 50/50 with 815 basic skintone and again cut 50/50 with water.
2nd highlight was basic skintone mixed 75/25 with white and this received a little more water maybe 33/66 paint to water.
Shadows:
1st shadow was a mix of 75% sunny skintone and 25% 814 burnt cadmium red and again cut 50/50 with water.
2nd shadow (darkest) was 25% sunny skintone to 72% burnt cadmium red mixed about 33/66 with water.
The lips where a mix of sunny skintone and 876 brown sand heavily cut with water (have a very light touch with the lips!).

Uniform:
Basecoat was mix of 66% 994 dark grey and 33% 950 black with about 25% water.
Highlight was 992 neutral grey with a tiny bit of base colour mixed 50/50 with water.
Shadow was pure 950 black cut with water 50/50.

Badges and equipment:
The badges were a mixture of Humbrol silver and a silver pencil, the headphones were painted pure black and the microphones (around the throat) painted a mixture of field grey and pure black.

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