1/35 Panther F shelf queen revisited

That's a beauty! Love the contrast with the raw, oxidized metal and the Dark Yellow.

I'm so glad that not only I plays around with Tamiya colours, for different Dunkelgelb effects .

It's looking mighty good in that shade Wouts , bring on the camo fella

oh no, it's a dark art, isn't it 

And bring on the camo? Well, I got you covered there.
This morning I sprayed the camouflage freehand. I chose for a late war (although in fact already discontinued by 1945) Licht und Schatten (light and shadow - more commonly known as ambush) camouflage. First I outlined the camouflage pattern in pencil and then the first color was sprayed. I made my own mix for the Schokoladebraun (chocolate brown, never understood why everyone speaks of red brown or even red oxide color). The red was mixed out of Tamiya XF Red Brown, X-9 Brown and a part of my homemade DY mix). I had some trouble with airbrushing these colors, especially on the Dark Yellow base the brown was very splattery. The OlivGrün (olive green) was mixed out of Tamiya XF-67 Nato Green, Gunze H-26 Bright Green, Tamiya X-8 Lemon Yellow and also a small part of the DY mix.

I think the main reason why the camouflage colors turned out to be difficult to spray is that I forgot to add some X-22 clear in the mix. But in the end I'm quite happy how it looks:


With the turret attached it looks like this: (I also painted some of the wheels in the camo colors btw)


I'm not sure what to do with the turret though. I think it looks good in combo like this, but pretty much everyone doing what if tanks do the turret or in DY or in red oxide primer. I want something different. I might add a different kind of camouflage.

After that I painted the DY dots on the olive green and chocolate brown and the olive green dots on the dark yellow patches. These where just the Tamiya/Gunze colors I used, but this time applied by brush. Worked out a treat:

And that's how she stands today. Time to reflect on the turret

Very nice colour mixes indeed my friend .
I agree with the different look to the turret, it would give it that "rushed into service look".
But a different camouflage would also be good, following along the lines of turret made by Krupp and the
hull made by MNH

Very nice paint job, the colours look great together

Wouts, your camo application is superb! I really like the mono-chromatic yellow turret on the ambush scheme hull. I think it makes for a nice contrast on the tank.

Yep, that’s a tank. Masking putty is the bees knees but you need to put it in the fridge in summer to harden up a bit.

Wouts, that looks amazing! Love the two different camo patterns.