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Dragon Armor 1:72 Late War Panther

Post by PAK38 » Wed Nov 09, 2011 8:22 pm

I've been waiting for this little beauty to show up. We don't see many very late war paint schemes.

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Re: Dragon Armor 1:72 Late War Panther

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Re: Dragon Armor 1:72 Late War Panther

Post by Heer » Wed Nov 09, 2011 8:32 pm

About f*cking time they released a panther. Steel wheels are interesting as well. I think dragon released a panther f that looked similiar to that panther. I also see on dragon's website that they plan on releasing 2 normandy tigers. One of the tigers, number 205, is the one that wittman arrived in normandy in. :D
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Re: Dragon Armor 1:72 Late War Panther

Post by PAK38 » Wed Nov 09, 2011 8:46 pm

Surprisingly, Dragon has only released the one Panther F as you mentioned. I would love to see a new F version with this late war scheme.

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Re: Dragon Armor 1:72 Late War Panther

Post by Panzer_M » Thu Nov 10, 2011 9:01 am

woulld have liked a sw panther from KG Peiper Dec.44..but this one is a must for me.

the 3rd SS 101st tiger(non Cyber Hobby release) is also a nice looker.
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Re: Dragon Armor 1:72 Late War Panther

Post by Panzer_M » Thu Nov 10, 2011 1:38 pm

That camo scheme is fashioned after that of the MNH factory. The problem is that they never built steel wheel Panthers, all of those came out of the MAN factory and had a totally different camo scheme. Another problem is the exhausts as the full steel wheelers were built prior to the introduction of the large Flammenvernichter exhausts. Finally, as all of the steel wheel Panthers were built in September 1944, it is very doubtful that any were operational by the battle of Berlin.
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Re: Dragon Armor 1:72 Late War Panther

Post by Panzer_M » Thu Nov 10, 2011 5:34 pm

Heer wrote:About f*cking time they released a panther. Steel wheels are interesting as well. I think dragon released a panther f that looked similiar to that panther. I also see on dragon's website that they plan on releasing 2 normandy tigers. One of the tigers, number 205, is the one that wittman arrived in normandy in. :D
only about 2 dozen steel wheelers were built..1/Pz Rgt.24 and 1.SS Panzer Rgt have proof of them.
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Re: Dragon Armor 1:72 Late War Panther

Post by Heer » Fri Nov 11, 2011 9:29 pm

Now if they would just release a brummbar/ sturmpanzer. :D
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Re: Dragon Armor 1:72 Late War Panther

Post by Panzer_M » Sat Nov 12, 2011 10:25 am

http://www.ebay.com/itm/290631901899?ss ... 1423.l2649

pre-orders up for Pz V..hopefully the repaint will be here for Xmas, and not delayed like some of the new tools. The 2nd Tiger of SS.s.Pz Abt 101(#133) coming up should give ius a timeframe for a repaint to show.
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Re: Dragon Armor 1:72 Late War Panther

Post by cjg476 » Sat Nov 12, 2011 10:30 am

Im curious...but why tha paint scheme? Ive seen videos of it in black in white...what were they going for with that camo?
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Re: Dragon Armor 1:72 Late War Panther

Post by Panzer_M » Sat Nov 12, 2011 11:19 am

same of as all camo..breaks up the silhouette
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Re: Dragon Armor 1:72 Late War Panther

Post by Heer » Sat Nov 12, 2011 2:13 pm

Pretty excited for the panther and tigers. Although we might not see them for a long time, considering that dragon still has a lot of tanks to produce.
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Re: Dragon Armor 1:72 Late War Panther

Post by StormyThoughts » Tue Nov 15, 2011 3:30 am

Great camo on Panther, but I would prefer just regular Panther G late, since Muncheberg/Kurmark have probably never used all steel wheelers.

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Re: Dragon Armor 1:72 Late War Panther

Post by Panzer_M » Thu Nov 17, 2011 2:01 pm

just got my intel booklet for upcoming Aachen '44 gaming, my 116 Pz KG will be using this panther.
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Re: Dragon Armor 1:72 Late War Panther

Post by Panzer_M » Sun Nov 20, 2011 5:43 pm

this guy got me to do a correct steel wheeler and MNH late panther..by mixing two dragon kits.
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Re: Dragon Armor 1:72 Late War Panther

Post by paulmerton » Mon Nov 21, 2011 2:55 pm

Heer wrote:About f*cking time they released a panther. Steel wheels are interesting as well. I think dragon released a panther f that looked similiar to that panther. I also see on dragon's website that they plan on releasing 2 normandy tigers. One of the tigers, number 205, is the one that wittman arrived in normandy in. :D
Dragon also released an earlier Panther G with steel wheels, but without the side skirts - #60322

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Re: Dragon Armor 1:72 Late War Panther

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Re: Dragon Armor 1:72 Late War Panther

Post by Heer » Thu Nov 24, 2011 9:51 am

Another panther:

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Re: Dragon Armor 1:72 Late War Panther

Post by Panzer_M » Thu Nov 24, 2011 6:54 pm

notice the two SW panthers have different mantlets.
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Re: Dragon Armor 1:72 Late War Panther

Post by Mad Sam » Fri Nov 25, 2011 7:06 am

I like the first one with the striped scheme, and while it possibly may not have been carried by
a steel wheeler, at least other Panthers were painted in a similar way.

Not sure about this latest one. Perhaps looks a bit too 'busy' for the size of the model. IMO,

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Re: Dragon Armor 1:72 Late War Panther

Post by Heer » Wed Nov 30, 2011 6:25 pm

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Re: Dragon Armor 1:72 Late War Panther

Post by StormyThoughts » Thu Dec 08, 2011 4:44 am

:?: Thats not a steel wheeler...

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Re: Dragon Armor 1:72 Late War Panther

Post by aferguson » Sat Dec 10, 2011 1:32 pm

the striped dragon release inspired me to get the JSI panther, which i'm quite chuffed about. (chuffed=happy).
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