Panther Profiline Schurtzen

[Nic.H]

Hi, I bought the profiline skirts a while ago for the panther, and this afternoon i decided to grind off the plastic ones and have a bash at fitting up the brass ones. The problem I have is that one of the top "hull strips" has a cut out on, this is on the right hand side apparently....but I have not seen this on any pictures or other builds yet....can anyone throw some light on this?....thanks



Nic

[Nic.H]

Ps............sorry, but I have lost my camera lead, so I cant post pictures of what I mean at the mo.....I put it somewhere safe!...a senior moment of mine

Nic

[Nic.H]

Right, in this picture from Panther in detail..by Culver and Feist...you can just make out the cut out


And here is my panther...with me holding the "running boards/debris guards" in place



Whats it for?....or if any one has a decent picture, could you show it.. thanks
Nic

[Woz]

Its so they didn't have to move the shovel.

You can't really see it in the first pic but the shovel goes through the running board

[Nic.H]

Ahhhhh!.....never thought about the tools, as the heng long plastic tool rack was not interfearing with the running boards.

Thanks for that Woz, as it was really bugging me

Nic

[xrad]

Yep...slot for shovel. They discuss this mod on several pages of 'Panzer tracts" Jagdpanther #9-something....

I like those tracks! I have a set on my JP and they are great.

[Nic.H]

Hi xrad....I could not see the wood for the trees!....the heng long tool rack is made to fit(with squashed/shrunken spade!), I did not know it was incorrect so it was a right pain in the head trying to figure out what the cut out was for, I bought a few bits and bobs from wecohe for detail, and skirts are from welshdragon. The tracks are great...can not remember who i got them off....I tend to delete the email invoices before the wife sees them! ...and I have just installed the 3:1 gear boxes, what a difference...

Nic

Ps, thanks for the tip about panzer tracts

[xrad]

hahahahhaha...I hit that SAME "delete email " button!!!! nice....