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Best PInk Panther base kit?
HermannB
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Posted: Friday, July 07, 2017 - 09:41 PM UTC
With some updates for Legend Productions for the Land Rover Pink Panther, I wonder which base kit is better. Italeri or Tamiya?
Giving the age of the kits, maybe a kitbash of both would do the trick?
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Posted: Friday, July 07, 2017 - 10:11 PM UTC
I built the Tamiya PP about 2 years ago with the Legends upgrades. I can tell you the base kit fit very well and played well with the Legend resin. As for accuracy, I can't help you compare the two.
HermannB
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Posted: Friday, July 07, 2017 - 10:38 PM UTC
Good info, thanks-
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Posted: Friday, July 07, 2017 - 11:19 PM UTC
Related threads :

https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/207238&page=1

http://www.network54.com/Forum/47209/thread/1158561716/LR+Pink+Panther+Tamiya+vs+Italeri-

H.P.
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Posted: Saturday, July 08, 2017 - 11:52 AM UTC
Assuming that Italeri hasn't released a Panther that I missed, just the GS version, they are different models of Rover. Tamiya's is a Series II (2?) while Italeri made a Series III (3?). I don't know if any of the latter were converted but the former certainly were. Italeri's kit also had the wrong number of wheel bolts (6 not 5) and was LHD as I recall.
JohnTapsell
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Posted: Saturday, July 08, 2017 - 03:03 PM UTC

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Assuming that Italeri hasn't released a Panther that I missed...


Yes they did

Based in part on their Mk III kit but backdated with a new front end and all the usual Pink Panther features.

Personally I prefer the Tamiya kit - it's not one of Italeri's better kits in my view.

Regards,
John
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Posted: Saturday, July 08, 2017 - 03:47 PM UTC
Why are the tires on the Tamiya Pink Panther incorrect? Wrong tread pattern or wrong size?
JohnTapsell
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Posted: Saturday, July 08, 2017 - 04:22 PM UTC
Nothing 'wrong' with the Tamiya wheels as far as I'm aware, apart from the fact they are poorly defined and lack a decent tread. I would replace them with the Hussar Productions resin wheels if I was doing a desert vehicle.

If you were doing a European vehicle then it gets more difficult because the SAS fitted oversize bar-tread tyres - the normal Landrover wheels would not be an accurate option (and no-one does them as an aftermarket option as far as I'm aware).

John
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Posted: Saturday, July 08, 2017 - 10:01 PM UTC

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Nothing 'wrong' with the Tamiya wheels as far as I'm aware, apart from the fact they are poorly defined and lack a decent tread. I would replace them with the Hussar Productions resin wheels if I was doing a desert vehicle.

If you were doing a European vehicle then it gets more difficult because the SAS fitted oversize bar-tread tyres - the normal Landrover wheels would not be an accurate option (and no-one does them as an aftermarket option as far as I'm aware).

John


Thanks John.
HermannB
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Posted: Saturday, July 08, 2017 - 10:31 PM UTC

Quoted Text

Assuming that Italeri hasn't released a Panther that I missed, just the GS version, they are different models of Rover. Tamiya's is a Series II (2?) while Italeri made a Series III (3?). I don't know if any of the latter were converted but the former certainly were. Italeri's kit also had the wrong number of wheel bolts (6 not 5) and was LHD as I recall.


Still available in Germany:
http://www.modellbau-koenig.de/Military_Models_135/Wheeled_Vehicles/modern_since_1945/SAS_Recon_Vehicle_Pink_Panther_i38_28127_0.htm

But I personally stick to Tamiya with Legend Production conversion/update.
WarWheels
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Posted: Saturday, July 08, 2017 - 11:46 PM UTC
Not sure if these would work... but Accurate Armour makes some tires: https://accurate-armour.com/products/135th-land-rover-products/lra005 . Same goes for BSM: http://www.minor-web.com/BSM.html
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