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WWII Panther Tanks!
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Posted: Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 03:40 AM UTC
I think I'd like to get into that. So count my vote.
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Posted: Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 03:54 AM UTC
Wonderful guys! Big turn around in less than 24 hours means this will be another successful Campaign.

And of course... it's the Panther tank.









Jeff
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Posted: Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 04:25 AM UTC
I'm thinking one of the Dragon offerings, with zimmerit. I think I can squeeze this one in.
PantherF
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Posted: Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 04:28 AM UTC

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I'm thinking one of the Dragon offerings, with zimmerit. I think I can squeeze this one in.




GREAT! It would be nice to have you aboard!








Jeff
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Posted: Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 05:59 AM UTC
I'm in with a Panther II
If Jeff allows
Piratos
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Posted: Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 09:04 AM UTC
Im up for it got an old tamiya kit laying around, so might do that one. Not sure yet
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Posted: Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 11:45 AM UTC

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Hi Jeff & other 'Pantherohlics' !!

You can enlist HERE !!!

Remember to have some fun !!!




OK, I'm in.
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Posted: Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 03:41 PM UTC
Does it have to be a whole Panther, or could I just use part of one - say a turret :-)
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Posted: Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 04:50 PM UTC
Got a 'G' in the stash, I'm in!
PantherF
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Posted: Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 10:48 PM UTC

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Does it have to be a whole Panther, or could I just use part of one - say a turret :-)



Dave ~ If it is a Pantherturm



I will allow it and or involves a small dio.



John ~ A Panther II? SURE BUDDY!


Thanks everyone for joining in! This should be fun.











Jeff
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Posted: Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 11:53 PM UTC

Hi Jeff,

OK, I was just looking for a good excuse to build a new panther...I'll sign in !

PantherF
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Posted: Friday, June 20, 2014 - 12:17 AM UTC

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Hi Jeff,

OK, I was just looking for a good excuse to build a new panther...I'll sign in !






AWESOME!










Jeff
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Posted: Friday, June 20, 2014 - 01:21 AM UTC
One G, D and jagdpanther!.

I'm in!

Regards

Alvaro
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Posted: Friday, June 20, 2014 - 02:36 AM UTC
OK - seeing as Panthers are the subject here, and it would be reasonable to expect that there are some Panther enthusiasts looking in.... THIS could be the place to float a first historical question about our kitty!

I am already thinking of doing one of those "steel-wheel" Ausf G that were built in the fall of 1944... and served in one or another unit involved in the "Battle of the Bulge" DEC 1944. My question is about the camo schemes that those Panthers, and other later-fall 1944 - production kitties - wore going into the BoB...

Steve Zaloga indicated in his Battle of the Bulge volumn (#7045) in the Concord Military Series that these late fall (Aug - DEC 1944) production Panthers came to the BoB wearing a "standard" basecoat of red oxide RAL 8012 (I THINK it was 8012...) with hard-edge striping or patterns of olive green (and sometimes also dunkelgelb) - that is, that Panthers (and Tiger II) in the BoB were mostly new production and routinely came wearing a current factory basecoat of rot-oxid rather than dunkelgelb or olivgrun. (The pics in that volumn support both this possible scheme plus a lack of zimm - no rot-oxid would have been applied over zimm, I think).

Any wisdom, knowledge or comment about this?

Bob
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Posted: Friday, June 20, 2014 - 04:07 AM UTC
Im in!! I have a Jagpanther that I have been itching to build.

Dave
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Posted: Friday, June 20, 2014 - 04:46 AM UTC
Hi guys,
I'm on it. I have a stock Panther ausf. G from Tamiya and Bergepanther from Italeri.


Paweł
PantherF
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Posted: Friday, June 20, 2014 - 08:04 AM UTC
I can look into it deeper Bob but what I remember of the B.O.B. there were also Panther A's and Panther's disguised as US vehicles too. I think the striping was one division and not entirely ALL Panthers but I'll do some reading this weekend.








Jeff
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Posted: Friday, June 20, 2014 - 08:45 AM UTC

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I can look into it deeper Bob but what I remember of the B.O.B. there were also Panther A's and Panther's disguised as US vehicles too. I think the striping was one division and not entirely ALL Panthers but I'll do some reading this weekend.

Jeff



Jeff; Thanks! What I'm really seeking is any info and comment on the putative use of Rot-oxid RAL 8012 as the base-coat on new-production Panthers used at the BoB. The diagonal striped camo was, I think, something seen only on tanks of one unit on the Eastern Front in 1945 - but this did not, I think, appear in the BoB. The same putative rot-oxid base-coat was also indicated as being on late-1944-production Tiger II seen at the BoB.

I'm considering doing the Dragon or maybe Tamiya steel-wheel Panther as seen in DEC 1944 at the BoB, and so expect possibly a rot-oxid base-coat to be "the thing".

Bob
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Posted: Friday, June 20, 2014 - 09:10 AM UTC
Okay Bob, will do!


FINALLY... I have someone I can talk Panthers with!










Jeff
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Posted: Saturday, June 21, 2014 - 04:28 AM UTC
Hi all,

I am going to build the Tamiya JagPanther Late Version assigned to the LSSH "1st SS Panzer Division.





I have some PE kits to acquire but I have plenty of time. Looking forward to this build.

Dave

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Posted: Saturday, June 21, 2014 - 07:21 AM UTC
David,
Are you planning on building the whole Division?

Cheers Rob.
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Posted: Saturday, June 21, 2014 - 07:37 AM UTC

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David,
Are you planning on building the whole Division?

Cheers Rob.



Rob,

I am thinking about it. I have a FAMO that I want to incorporate into a dio so I am thinking about having it revolve around the LSSH!!

Dave
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Posted: Saturday, June 21, 2014 - 07:38 AM UTC

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Hi all,

I am going to build the Tamiya JagPanther Late Version assigned to the LSSH "1st SS Panzer Division.





I have some PE kits to acquire but I have plenty of time. Looking forward to this build.

Dave





Thanks Dave, but you don't have to show a start image until after we get started, which is October.








Jeff
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Posted: Saturday, June 21, 2014 - 11:58 AM UTC
Happy to talk Panthers any time mate . .
PantherF
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Posted: Saturday, June 21, 2014 - 12:25 PM UTC

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Happy to talk Panthers any time mate . .




Well, alrighty!

We have plenty of time to kick some dirt around then 'till this thing takes off!









Jeff