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Look at this

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 6:13 am
by Light.Inf.Scout

Re: Look at this

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 6:24 am
by Jagdpanther
Light.Inf.Scout wrote:Holy crap...check this out.


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... &rd=1&rd=1
:shock: People will pay anything if they want something so bad. Thats just crazy.

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:18 am
by jeffrowse
Check out the buyer's history - he's buying quite a few models at prices ranging from fairly sensible (round about $30 for an M4A3 Sherman, an M16 halftrack Quad AA carrier and a Kubelwagen) to somewhat high ($102 each on two Stukas), to this one.

Maybe he's just very rich (or is in for a nasty surprise?) :shock:
But then he did buy what looks to be exactly the same model (same camo and hull number) for $78 last month...

Maybe someone should email him and ask if he wants to join!

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:23 am
by Teamski
Interesting. I'd hate to see what an Ambush Panther would go for right now!

-Ski

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:43 am
by hworth18
And to think, I sold my XD Ambush Panther for $25... :oops:

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:31 am
by Razor17019
hworth18 wrote:And to think, I sold my XD Ambush Panther for $25... :oops:
That stinks! :cry: :cry:

Why did you sell so low?

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:26 pm
by Light.Inf.Scout
At this point, I wish I would have bought an Ambush Panther when I had the chance, but I didn't because it doesn't look quite right to me. It looks like a bird pooped all over it. I prefer the 1st edition.

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:28 pm
by hworth18
Razor17019 wrote:
hworth18 wrote:And to think, I sold my XD Ambush Panther for $25... :oops:
That stinks! :cry: :cry:

Why did you sell so low?
At the time I sold it, you couldn't hardly give them away.. Now, their mint..

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:55 pm
by V2 MAN
Was that a 1st edition in the ebay photo :shock: I need to get a panther and paint it in dak color :wink:

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:10 pm
by tmanthegreat
V2 MAN wrote:Was that a 1st edition in the ebay photo :shock: I need to get a panther and paint it in dak color :wink:
That is the first edition Panther, and it was a Toys R Us exclusive :wink: It originally sold for $40. I wouldn't paint one in DAK colors as the Panther wasn't used in North Africa - at least as far as I know. Tigers were used, but only in the later stages of the campaign. The Panther did see service on the Eastern Front, Italy, and Western Europe 8)

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 4:13 pm
by pickelhaube
Yikes !!! I can sell all of my Panthers and retire.

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 4:41 pm
by Rowsdower
I'd rather hqave the Simpsons figures on the top of the page. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 7:01 pm
by catman
And now were gonna see tons of Panthers show up on ebay at once just because one seller got a hefty amount for his :roll:

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:30 pm
by immeww2
That is amazing!!!! :shock: :shock:

Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 5:28 am
by aferguson
Tman is correct....no Panther saw service in North Africa because the Panther didn't enter service til mid '43 and all went to Russia for Kursk offensive.

You could repaint a Panther in overall dark yellow however, which is how a lot of them looked in the early stages of their career. Note that dark yellow is not the same colour that german tanks were painted in North Africa, which was an orangey brown colour that bleached to a light sand colour over time.

Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:11 am
by V2 MAN
I might just get a panther for my battle of the bulge guys or my regular gray coated germans :wink: But i was doing some research last night and i saw a picture of a panther that was painted tan though. I think i will just get a tiger and paint it tan for my dak figs :D Thanks for telling me or i would have changed the outcome in north africa :lol:

Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 3:16 pm
by aferguson
the panther was probably overall dark yellow, not tan. Dark yellow varied quite a bit in shade.

Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 6:45 pm
by V2 MAN
That might have been the color i saw :oops: I am learning alote :D

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 5:55 pm
by flpickupman
Standard armor base coat was Dunklegelb (dark yellow) and the Germans used Sandgelb (sand yellow) when they could get it. Otherwise they used captured British, US, and Italian paint. So your DAK schemes have a lot of room for interpretation.

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:23 pm
by DocTodd
Which one is the ambush Panther?
Todd

Re: Look at this

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 3:56 pm
by coreystinson
Jagdpanther wrote:People will pay anything if they want something so bad. Thats just crazy.
I'm afraid I may be responsible as I'm the one that pointed this Mexican collector to this item, as he was inquiring about how to get a 1:18 Panther. When they are going for these kind of prices, might be time for 21st Century to push out another version methinks!

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 6:29 pm
by Light.Inf.Scout
DocTodd wrote:Which one is the ambush Panther?
Todd
It looks pretty much like the 1st version but has white spots all over it. Looks like birds crapped all over it.

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 7:45 pm
by grunt1
Image

Full list of German 1:18 armor here (along with everything else pretty much...)

http://www.sshqdb.com/coppermine/index.php?cat=12