Hello friends!
I have got this picture from a German Panther which was used in the end of the war for cleaning up the bombed towns. Hitler himself had to be asked for permission to use converted tanks for that particular use.
As I "have to" built this version, my question:
does anybody has additional pictures, drawings, plans or further information of this kind of Panther?

That's one bigass bulldozer! :-)

I have quite a few books on the Panther but never seen this particular one,nor have i heard of a "D" being used in this way.looks like you have found a very unusual Panther here.......nice one

Later
Hawkeye

I have seen quite a few panther books and have never once heard of them doing this. This picture is quite a find, what book is it out of?

Rob

Hi ...I just sent you a picture by e-mail ...tell me if you got it and if you can show it to the rest of the guys...I'm too computer challenged to figure out how to post it directly.....

Richard #:-)

Nice picture i've never seen that one before. :-)

I wonder what other vehicles were modified for this job?

I have looked at alot of Panther references but have never run across this particular "variant". I wonder why the fuhrer had to be asked if the Panther could be converted for this role? Why did a Panther have to do any plowing period?
Oh well, I would like to hear more about your search for pics,
Andrew

so u are building it now?? for otto I assume?? I have another pic, with 3 guys sitting on it. do u know it? it has been posted in www.panzer-model.de last year. but the quality is not the best.

regards-werner

now it´s finished and can be seen here:
http://www.panzermodellbau.com/en_tip_schaufel.html

a short preview:

I did'nt see panther like this before, but it's really good .
Good work

Regard

my website dedicated to military scale model tanks and dioramas
http://www.tankfive.net

well now for something completely different............................WOW!!! Some find and wise to build a version beofre it's exploited. this ought to garner quite a bit of interest at a model contest make sure you have the photo and the article with it. Send the info to verlinden, tell them you want a finders fee/engineering fee/ this one will sell to all the variant builders