I thought they got rid of the lower rounded turret mantle to delete the shot trap deflection into the top of the thin chassis steel? They replaced it with a lower block/ square edged mantle?

Companies respond to what sells. Don't buy the prototypes and odd variants and they will quit producing them. However your choice of model kits will also diminish.

Just what we need. Another one off German tank. Probably only one ever made yet it warrants a kit of it's own. I really don't understand DML at all . . . There are loads more operational vehicles that they could produce instead surely?

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Companies respond to what sells. Don't buy the prototypes and odd variants and they will quit producing them. However your choice of model kits will also diminish.

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True...but a bergpanther would sell a ton more than this thing. I have a feeling their going to drop a Bergpanther G in the near future. Before next summer. Just a gut feeling.

Out of my own curiosity,, why are there not more complaints about missing engines or underhood inaccuracies? I'm sure I like an engine and engine build more than the next guy but it's such a bummer looking at kits with the whole assembly missing or a kit with a rectangle chunk with an intake that's supposed to pass as an engine. Are engines something that are/were dreaded to deal with during war or are they completely uninteresting to military builders?

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I thought they got rid of the lower rounded turret mantle to delete the shot trap deflection into the top of the thin chassis steel? They replaced it with a lower block/ square edged mantle?

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Companies respond to what sells. Don't buy the prototypes and odd variants and they will quit producing them. However your choice of model kits will also diminish.

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True...but a bergpanther would sell a ton more than this thing. I have a feeling their going to drop a Bergpanther G in the near future. Before next summer. Just a gut feeling.

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More people know what a panther is than a bergpanther. A bergpanther would appeal to a limited number of modelers who are into recovery or engineering vehicles while a panther would attract a wider spectrum of builders. I, personally, have no interest in building a bergpanther but would like to a accurate early and late panther without having to go bankrupt buying aftermarket parts to improve a bad kit. Guess I'll just keep waiting.

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Out of my own curiosity,, why are there not more complaints about missing engines or underhood inaccuracies? I'm sure I like an engine and engine build more than the next guy but it's such a bummer looking at kits with the whole assembly missing or a kit with a rectangle chunk with an intake that's supposed to pass as an engine. Are engines something that are/were dreaded to deal with during war or are they completely uninteresting to military builders?

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There are as many different engines as there are variants of a particular model of afv. Export models could have a different engine than domestic models. Countries that licensed to produce their own variants could have different engines than those made in the originating country. The Sherman tank had as many different engines as there were variants. Detailing a 1/35 engine is more difficult than detailing a 1/24 or 1/25 engine in a car model but it can be done. However most armor modellers I know are more about the guns than the horsepower since it is hidden behind armor. It's only been recently that armor models began to include any interior parts. In fact that is where afv modeling seems to be going. In the early days most tanks and afvs were inaccurate, low in detail and low in parts count. As time went by aftermarket parts and photoetch improved the accuracy and exterior details. Tracks went from vinyl bands to individual links to accurate metal aftermarket tracks. Model companies picked up on what modelers wanted and improved their products over time, improving accuracy, details and accessories so that it is possible to now build a much more accurate model than it was 40 years ago, without having to lay out a fortune for aftermarket parts. The outside seems to have evolved as far as it can go. Now it's time to start adding accurate interiors.

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Companies respond to what sells. Don't buy the prototypes and odd variants and they will quit producing them. However your choice of model kits will also diminish.

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True...but a bergpanther would sell a ton more than this thing. I have a feeling their going to drop a Bergpanther G in the near future. Before next summer. Just a gut feeling.

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More people know what a panther is than a bergpanther. A bergpanther would appeal to a limited number of modelers who are into recovery or engineering vehicles while a panther would attract a wider spectrum of builders. I, personally, have no interest in building a bergpanther but would like to a accurate early and late panther without having to go bankrupt buying aftermarket parts to improve a bad kit. Guess I'll just keep waiting.

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C'mon...if your building a panther, you know what a berg is. If you don't, it's because your new to WWII subject matter and it will just intrigue you. The vast majority of American youth don't know or care about the 2nd world war unfortunately.

You know it looks like for every three or four German prototypes Dragon does they sneak out an American prototype. We have seen the T28, M6 heavy tanks (despite their problems, I mean if you follow closely these German prototype kits have their little niggling inaccuracies too)

Maybe one of the combat cars? Serve all the M3 Stuart people to get a M1 Combat Car rather than a proper Stuart. Just the kind of left handed curve ball the Cartel might just throw our way.