Hi Guys
I came across this pic recently

Panther & Dragon Wagon

and was wondering if the panther was the one captured and used by US forces in Italy called "Deserter"??
TIA
Pete

Deserter was captured by the British!

Have a look at the footnote in this article on the more famous Panther capture Cuckoo

http://www.twenot.nl/cuckoo.htm

Thank you for sharing David!!

What an amazing "remake in scale!"...
But without beeing to picky, the crew uniform should be of another colour or is it just me??

Skipper

The crew men are wearing the 'Pixie' suit, which was a sandy brown colour, much paler than the usual British khaki uniforms.

Aaah Cuckoo

I love the Overloon-Venray story, for all who haven't heard of it before, you should read this article (the Overloon story starts at half of the page, after the Market Garden story)

Stormbringer, were you looking for reference images for the Mud, Sweat and Gears campaign ? :-)

Grt

My apologies guys, I thought Deserter was captured and used by US forces. Thanks David for correcting my mistake.
Martin, I'm actually looking for pics/ references for Deserter as I intend building Cuckoo anyway and would like to do Deserter as well.
Pete

The one in the picture looks pretty beat up. Maybe the Americans were taking it back to the shop to fix it up? Or it could be post war cleanup.

Jeff

Wow.... that is an interesting piece of history....
thanks for posting it...... learn something new everyday here..... :-) :-) :-)

Don't think the 50 would be mounted if it were post war. JMO

Pete

This might help you in your quest for Deserter pictures

http://www.network54.com/Forum/thread?forumid=47207&messageid=1079043882

Hey David- If you look at the guy who posted that question on ML-It IS our very own Stormbringer: Peter Dennis! :-) :-) :-)

No offense meant, dave, just got a chuckle out of it this cold & dreary morning...

Oooops!

Memo to self:

Read things all the way through before posting.

Now is there a red face emoticon?

ummm............. I'll get my coat.

Thanks Guys for your replies. You've made me chuckle at the start of what promises to be a long dreary night shift.
Pete :-)