What are your suggestions for boxing in the sponsons? The panther has three angles from front to back.
The easiest would probably just use one large plastic sheet that goes straight across the bottom of the upper hull. Do you put a support frame in the upper hull? Inquiring minds want to know before I use a good bit of sheet plastic.
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Not familiar with the kit but does this idea for the Sherman tank help?
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Thanks, I do not have a pattern but will come up with something. There will need to be multiple pieces because the sponsons are not a flat, one-piece design.
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FWIW
Sometimes one can fit an index card against the upper and lower hull in the sponson area and mark it accordingly. Then trim the index card pieces to get a good fit. The index cards being used to making a patterns for the sheet styrene.
HTH
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Yeah I’d suggest a support strip on the upper hull to glue the inserts, plus another strip where that would contact the lower hull sides.
Doing the three angles of the bottom sponson shouldn’t be too challenging. Do the long forward section first, then the rear section, and lastly the connecting step.
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Would a 1/35 scale fantasy locomotive made almost completely from scratch qualify for this campaign? The model will include at least one human figure, very probably cobbled together from spare parts, a full interior, and at least some stowage.
I have not had much luck joining campaigns about to end. While my inexperience means problems are inevitable, a full year should give me enough time to muddle through.
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It most certainly would, since scratchbuilding and converting was their thing.
Welcome aboard!
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Thank you!
Now to start making some wagon wheels…
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1970 vintage Tamiya Early Tiger #35056 from a ~1980’s rebox.
…picked “218” of 502nd Heavy Panzer Battalion which had waffle zimmerit …
Added a few details to the suspension area.
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Love it!
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I am going with this old kit from 1989. I will add a few figures and change the tracks if the Fruilmodel tracks fit (?)
Also add some old school Verlinden resin heads.
Probably only start in the new year, but planning has started 
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the metal tracks look like they’re for the Sd.Kfz.2 Kettenkrad. I personally used the AFV Club tracks for my Tamiya Hanomag build, then glued them down and came out better than i expected.
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Yes, the fruilmodel tracks look small, but the Tamiya track also look bigger than a Pz. IV track, so maybe both are out of scale in opposite directions.
In any case I will stick to the kit tracks and upgrade the kit and figures in other ways. Even considering digging out my old “The Verlinden Way” books as inspiration.
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Whilst the tracks for the SdKfz vehicles look the same, they are not. The Sdkfz 251 track is the same as on the 3 ton SdKfz 11 (as it says on the Fruil box), but smaller than the ones for the SdKfz 7.
The SdKfz 7’s were larger to suit the much bigger vehicle.
The SdKfz 250 tracks were the same as the SdKfz 10 ('Demag") and smaller than the 251’s.
The SdKfz 2 (Kettenkraftrad), SdKfz 6 and the SdkFz 9 (‘Famo’) all had different sized tracks again
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Thanks, Peter. That explains a lot
I think I have a dragon/trumpeter Sd.Kfz. 7/9 kit in the stash somewhere. Perhaps there are both rubber tracks and single links included. Then I can steal one option from there.
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Good luck, but I’m fairly sure neither have two track type options.
The cost of Fruil or Modelkasten, if you can find them, will be steep.
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Peter, you are right. Only link and length supplied. I will stick with the kit tracks.
Looking forward to start on this old nostalgic kit.
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I want to/need to work my way through a number of other builds, before I can embark on my “Great”-journey.
But yes, I am really looking forward to it, too.
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