The remaining construction went largely without hitch, but as you will see from the reviews you do need to conduct a little research beforehand if you want to model a particular vehicle. This is because the build instructions and the painting profiles for each variant is not 100% accurate. Zimmerit is not mentioned at all which is a little weird since two of the depicted versions require it! The kit tracks do look great once built up, but boy is it a mammoth task getting them cleaned up! I started one side then remembered I had a set of metal tracks already built up. Dodged a bullet there!
Leaving the casemate roof off so as to cover the interior in a shadow coat I airbrushed a black primer coat with Mr Finishing Surfacer 1500. Difficult to see in the pics below this leaves a lovely smooth surface in prep for the base coat.
Looking at period images of tank 01 of sPz.Jg.Abt.559 the camo scheme is not at all clear, but there does appear to be green and red brown painted over a dark yellow base coat. Likely applied in the field.
This vehicle was a production Jagdpanther G1 (command variant) used by the unit's commanding officer, Major Erich Sattler. Assembled at the MIAG factory in July 1944, it was knocked out on September 8, 1944, in Belgium.
The vehicle was recovered and now permanently resides in the Imperial war museum Duxford
I cannot say why the museum painted in a two tone scheme that it can be seen with today
After the model received a base coat of Tamiya LP-55, followed by two light mist coats of hairspray so I could disrupt the camo colours. Without any clear evidence of a camo scheme, I airbrushed a wavy freehand pattern using Tamiya LP-56 and LP-57. This will be heavily weathered in forthcoming step so the camo colours look faded out.
Next chapter TBC
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