Here is the DML Panther Ausf A built as Barkmann's vehicle in Normandy. It features some extra etched brass (engine deck screens, spare track holders, tool clamps, chains etc) and home made zimm created with Squadron Green putty and a Tamiya zimm rake.
I hollowed out the tow crevis and track cable holders and drilled them to allow the retaining pins to be added. The tow cable is spare DML ends with Karaya soft brass cabling.
Crew are by DML with Hornet heads, and markings are Archer dry-transfers. I also added periscope lenses using small cut-out rectangles of 35mm photo negative. A classic Steve Zaloga tip!
I thought I'd post a few pictures of my LSSAH Panther. It's the DML "Premium Edition" Ausf A with resin zimmerit. It's quite a famous vehicle with "LSSAH" scratched into the zimm on the turret sides.
This is my DML Panther Ausf A "Premium Edition " built as "I13", a standard gun tank assigned to the Regimental HQ of 1/4 Panzer Regiment in Italy, summer 1944. The pictures show the putty applied zimmerit, which I was at pains to get right, and the additional features added to replicate this particular tank. It's important to view photos of the actual vehicle you seek to reproduce, or at least ones very like it, to get an accurate result. In this case, "I13" had a tile pattern zimmerit, which in places was quite rough - especially the horizontal hatching, which wasn't very straight in places! The perfectly applied modellers solutions don't always reflect the rough and ready realities...
