Found it. Posted some images.

Cheers,

RJ

Ok I found this in the stash and this will be part of the next stage of my project

I plan on gluing it together today

Hi guys I have been back at my build added some ground work

and a photo of what the scene might look like

Its been a while but I made some progress on my base


More to come

@Sal;

OK - I'm enlisted HERE.

That little Russian rail-bound armored-car has yet to materialize, and I'm now thinking of perhaps doing a steel-wheel Panther G from the Battle of the Bulge... as I have this Tamiya ST-Panther G lit just hanging around, along with some Tamiya link-tracks for same and maybe some scrids and scrads of Pantherish PE from the drawers of bits...

Will that steel-wheel kitty fit in HERE?

Bob

Bob,
Sal ok'ed the steel wheeled panthers on the first page.

So he did! Thanks for the reminder

Looks like I'll be doing that SteelWheel Panther here!

Should be a pretty quick build, seeing as it's a Tamiya kit with half the parts of the corresponding Dragon ST kitty... So, if I get crackin' on this right away, I might make the deadline!

Bob

Hurry up Bob !!!

Careful there, mate! Haste, you know, has all sorts of well-documented potential to make waste!

Panthers, unlike Shermies and Jeeps and T-34 and other such mass-market lot, were individually - crafted and veritable works-of-the-village-tank-builder's ART! You gotta allow time and patience and soak up the rays and let the "steel" feel the love! Being as I'm one a them historically-minded sorts who loves to feel the ambience of the thing in all it's glory...

OK. I'll get crackin' on the kitty!

Bob

My fault there Bob !
Don't hurry your build... no, I meant that you should hurry up opening the box and show us some plastic

Darn! And here I thought you were trying to hustle me along or something!

The box / plastic start-up pic will come along presently.

Bob

It's Tamyia's G version Bob ?

Thanks Alex

Ok Bob looking forward to seeing that Panther come to life

OK! The Tamiya Panther Type G Steel Wheel is...

Coming to styrene + a little Aber PE Life!



The kit is Tamiya 35174 - that kitty kit with the neat IR night-sight devices and option for either Steel Wheels or standard dished 32-bolt wheels with rubber tires... As this is a STEEL WHEEL campaign... I'll be going with those "Gummigedampfenstahlaufrollen".

It'll NOT be OOTB... I'll be adding on the Tamiya Panther G link track set, and some few bits from the Aber Panther G PE set - grills, maybe the mud-flaps, maybe the exhaust heat-shields. Who knows? MAYBE a few other bits and bobs. I MAY get a metal barrel along the way, and probably will add in a couple "wires" and maybe some duffle and j-cans from the parts bin. I will be more-or-less doing it up as one of Kampfgruppe Peiper's few Steel Wheel kitties at the B of the B, Dec 1944.

They did not have any zimm (whew! ), so I'm home free in that department! I'll be using the kit's wheels - but have learned that Tamiya made them over-sized but that's life. I'll not put the IR stuff on - I doubt Peiper had that stuff on his kitties.

Let the work begin!

Bob

Ok Bob I can picture the plastic bits flying everywhere and smell the glue fumes.

Hello Gents,

My entry for the campaign. I have a long weekend ahead so am hoping to get started on this:



Crazy prices over at eBay -- saw one with a US$125 tag. Makes me wonder whether the kit is really sought after.

Cheers,

Tat

Here is my Start up photo for the campaign.
Lots of great work listed on the thread!

Welcome Tat and Tom I'm looking forward to seeing those builds come together
Tom that is the kit I will be building for the Dragon OOB campaign I think
If I ever get finished with this one been a little busy lately

Sal ,,, I have a question for you .. i would like to join this campaign but with a slight what if but also a very possible .. a steel wheeled Panther ARV ,,using a Dragon steel wheeled Panther and the Italeri Panther ARV ,, both are brand new and unstarted .
Ive alaways liked the idea of a steel wheeled Panther ARV and thought this would be a good place to build it .

Cheers

Phill

Hi Tom,
Just wondering: Has that kit been discontinued and would you happen to know how the Trumpeter Gondolas compare?

--mike

Hey Phill,
Nice to see yo back on the forums hope all is well you
Yes, that WhatIf Steel wheeled Panther fits here looking forward to seeing it come to life

Hey ya Sal good to be back after all this time .. well i think the next best thing to do is sign up
This is gonna look different but normal at the same time strange as that sounds

Phill

@Sal;

OK... detail question here... I'm going to actually kick into that Tamiya Panther G "steel wheel" TONITE at the model club build meeting... I've dawdled around looking up stuff about these rare Panthers in action - appears several actually saw combat in the Battle of the Bulge - at LaGleize, and a few in the Ardenne. I tumbled across the individual tank from KampfGruppe Peiper which appears to call me as the closest historical focus of my dreamed-of effort... But there is a small problem, here!

#223 (I think that is) is the subject I'm thinking of building towards... There's a great US Army pic of this guy parked by a small stream after the battle It shows an odd "special case" of field service that pertains directly to THIS campaign and its theme... apparently this tank lost a STEEL wheel somewhere, and the crew (or a shop) replaced it with a standard 32-bolt rubber-tire type before this tank was lost.... (Which historically and brilliantly settles that long-standing modeler argument about whether or not steel-wheels and rubber-tire wheels were interchangeable on the Panther ). I REALLY would like to do this on my build, following this historic event...

So... CAN I (OK, technically speaking, I CAN ) swap the one rubber outer wheel on in that place, per the historic pic and event, or more correctly, MAY I do this? Pretty Please? IF not, I'll understand and there are some others I could (with a small sigh, of course ) consider doing in its stead...

Cheers!

Bob

@Sal;

Did a check - actually the tank in question is Peiper's #225. Here is the pic I am basing my request on:




Note the one replacement outer wheel in the 3rd to rear station.

It's just an ask, Sal - there are certainly others from the "set" I can do, but this could "kill 2 birds" and save me from wanting to do yet another Panther G steelie so as to catch this peculiar event!


Cheers!

Bob

Wow Bob that's some request
How does this sound. You can build the Panther just don't post a photo of the side with that rubber rimmed wheel or leave it off until after your galley photo is taken.
Hope that works for ya