Back dated Panther G custom kit

pickelhaube · Post by **pickelhaube** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 5:53 pm

Anybody interested in a Panther G back date kit . Rounded mantlet short rear radiator cover and new stacks ?

Here is a casting of the new rear short radiator cover. The white did not come out well. I need to paint it gray so it would come out but this is what you will get. I can also make the screens.

I was also thinking of making some zimerrit panels like the smaller 1/35 models.

Let me know. This is just an idea as my 1/35 scale 222 kit is on the way. As soon as I get it I will jump on that. After the flak gun molding is done.

exether_mega · Post by **exether_mega** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 6:06 pm

and what about a bergepanther version ?

phil

pickelhaube · Post by **pickelhaube** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 7:04 pm

exether_mega wrote:and what about a bergepanther version ?

phil

This will be on the list of Panther kits as well. If there is an interest .

1958Zelda · Post by **1958Zelda** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 7:10 pm

PANTHER II

Ta-152 · Post by **Ta-152** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 7:33 pm

I'd be more interested in an MG rig for the commander's cupola.

pickelhaube · Post by **pickelhaube** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 7:38 pm

I always liked the Panther II
This would be an easy mod . New turret. and steel wheels . Anbody else ?

I always wanted to do a Panther / M-10 but not enough Panthers out there , now there is

exether_mega · Post by **exether_mega** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 11:13 pm

pickelhaube wrote:
exether_mega wrote:and what about a bergepanther version ?

phil
This will be on the list of Panther kits as well. If there is an interest .

count me in for this one

phil

Panther F · Post by **Panther F** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 4:47 am

It would be easier to make a prototype Panther F than a Panther II. First of all, there was never a real Panther II turret produced, it was just on paper. Plus, you would need to redesign the lower hull to accommodate the KT running gear, road wheels, sprockets, idler wheels and transport track. Then the upper hull is completely a different design apart from the G hull.

Easier to pop a Schmalturn turret on a Panther G hull. Even then, that would just be the prototype Panther F. The Panther F hull was not the same as the G hull was.

pickelhaube · Post by **pickelhaube** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 4:15 pm

blitzhaze wrote:all great ideas but what about the aust a or d panthers

Those would go with the G model. The A would be the easiest. Different hatches different front viewer. I have forgotten if the rear is the tounge and grove wedge of if is on the D or A as well.The memory is not what it used to be.
I need to look it up. The wedge is easy to replicate but the modeler would have to cut off the long fender line.