hey all I have to say that I'm new to this german armor stuff you can find me over on the modern armor but I'm going to start my first german build with my club they want to do a panther build and i went with the jagdpanter to be diferent so i did looking and found a jagdpanter with the Abteilung 654 tank #112 I'm using Drangon early praduction and alliance upgrad set as well. but I have already ran in to a problem all the pic of the 112 that i could find are from the back and i nead to know if the 112 had a monobloc or a sectional gun thanks and here are some pis
dave

Alright Dave!

Glad you've finally taken the wrapper off the box and started cutting sprues...

You know, now that you've turned to the "dark side," if you don't make steady progress, Frau Blucher will have to start crackin' her whip

Seriously, though, I haven't had any luck trying to pin down the barrel type on ol' #112.

In the absence of any other information (chasis number, production date, or other photos), maybe you can check your references and make a count on the barrel types of the other Jagdpanthers in 1st company. I would suspect that they were all delivered more or less at the same time which suggests a narrow production window which further suggests significant commonality in their features.

It might turn out that you can ID both types of barrels on the company's vehicles, in which case I'd say you're good to go with the kit barrel.

For anyone interested, here's the link to our club's group-build page with photos of our Panthers in-progress:

AMPS Central SC Group-Build & Demos Page

See ya later,

thanks all so this is the darkside ok i might get use to this ???? mike when i get some time off i will go back and check the other tanks in the company and see what i can fined. Brian thanks for all the goddys the brass is realy nice i just wish that i was better at working with the brass as far as #112 i have one other pic of the crew standing in front of the tank and you can see the lower part of the mantletand it is not bolted i want to do the #112 on the western front in 1944 and at that time it did have zimmerit
thanks all hope to have pics some time later this week
dave

thanks brian i did some more reading and talk to mike and found that the first company receved they jagdpanter around the 14th of june so i figure that they were made around april so i'm going to go with the sectional gun
thanks all hope to have pic up around tuesday
dave

hay brian thanks i have to agree with you about the zimmerit on the storage bins i'm going to attempt to use your storage bins i'll post some pic when i get them done any tips would be a great help
dave

hay all small update


















brain dose the brass have parts to move the tools to the back ???
thanks dave

Liking the progress Dave. Keep it up.

A little lady once told me "once you go German you never go back!"

It's looking real good Dave, keep it up.

thanks scott had to put her aside for now to finsh my t-62 but will get her done soon
dave

Scott,

It's good to see ya posting here, buddy!

Hey, we might have to start Dave on some armor-regression therapy to wean him off all this modern armor stuff and get him building some "real" German tanks...

You know, we start him off with a Leo II, then work backwards through the Leo I and eventually we'll have him building some real cats like Tigers and Panthers!

That or we let him pick the next club group-build and he winds up converting all of us to building tanks with laser range-finders and turbine engines...

Have a great armor model-building day!

I'm all for Dave and another club member picking the next club build and we all tackle a modern beast. Although, I have a feeling once he really sinks his teeth into the Jagpanther, the seed will be planted and Dave will start oozing true German Armor.

A note to Dave, I too have limited PE experience and have struggled with some of those small and, all too often, "airborne" parts but I already have used 10 times as much brass on my Panther G than any of my previous projects and really feel good about that. The Alliance Model Works stuff is awesome (THANKS BRIAN), and with the addition of a few new tools on my bench which has made working with the brass so much easier and enjoyable. Keep plugging on that Jagpanther because it's one of the coolest vehicles ever. IT"S WW2 GERMAN!!!!

i will not go lightly to the darkside lol lol but I do like the idea of picking the next group build i might start you all slow maybe a t-54 build or maybe a M48
I know that it might hurt a little but it will be ok
dave

ooooo! An M48 Vietnam would really be fun or a T55 (I would do a syrian version) This could be a lot of fun. For now I'm gonna work on my Panther. Shoot a pic of the T62 for me, would love to see it and plug away on the Jagdpather.

scott you can see it over on the soviet forum it is under yes another T-62
davehope you like it