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| Subject: | Re: What about an early Panther Ausf. G? |  |
| Date: | Oct 29, 2006 |
| From: | Gerald Owens | |
Dragon's Smart Kit provides parts for nearly any Panther built in the post-Zimmerit period. If you want to do one from the Normandy fighting or early Siegfried line fighting, you will need the early exhausts and a coat of Zimmerit. Should you use the Tamiya version? Well, that really depends on whether the absence of the hollows in the Tamiya track guide teeth bothers you. If you're gonna swap out the tracks anyway, it makes more sense to just go with the Dragon kit, since it costs less than the aftermarket tracks alone, and has lots of tiny improvements over Tamiya's version.
If you want to backdate the Dragon kit, you'll need to remove the tiny armored coaming in front of the cupola--it was for the control strap for the infrared system, and wasn't present on early turrets (the older Shanghai Dragon kits include this as an optional item but the new kit has it molded in place). And of course leave off the little holders for the poison gas identification panels on the turret roof.
You do get two complete sets of round fan covers (different styles), two styles of fans, a choice of the cast or welded exhaust housings, round or chin mantlet, cast or welded turret ventilator, optional fan tower for the crew compartment heater, which can be modeled open or closed (the photoetch included is only for the raised heater version, so you'll need aftermarket PE for the fan covers if you want to backdate). There is also the optional one steel wheel pair on the last axle, as seen on a few Panthers delivered in 1945, and the skid that replaced the return roller on a few very late vehicles. And the turret is marked for placement of the steel foliage loops as seen on 1945 Panthers (included as really delicate plastic moldings).
I suspect that Dragon will also offer an early Panther G eventually, so a conversion will not be necessary. |
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 | Tamiya or DML Panther G late (Imperial Series) ? - Robert Garelli - Oct 28, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Tamiya or DML Panther G late (Imperial Series) ? [IMG] - Eric Scurlock - Oct 28, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Tamiya or DML Panther G late (Imperial Series) ? - Paul Clark - Oct 28, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Tamiya or DML Panther G late (Imperial Series) ? - Eric Scurlock - Oct 28, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Tamiya or DML Panther G late (Imperial Series) ? - Robert Garelli - Oct 28, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Tamiya or DML Panther G late (Imperial Series) ? - Gerald Owens - Oct 28, 2006 |
| . . . . . . What about an early Panther Ausf. G? - Paul A. Owen - Oct 28, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: What about an early Panther Ausf. G? - Martin Webster - Oct 29, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: What about an early Panther Ausf. G? - Andrew Herbert - Oct 29, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: What about an early Panther Ausf. G? - Eric Scurlock - Oct 29, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: What about an early Panther Ausf. G? - Eric Scurlock - Oct 29, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: What about an early Panther Ausf. G? - Gerald Owens - Oct 29, 2006 |
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