Panther F

tomhugill · Post by **tomhugill** » Wed Oct 17, 2018 4:10 pm

Hey folks, the second new project. A Tamiya based panther f, using the Taigen upper and turret. She's got some Taigen steel wheels mixed in and Taigen metal tracks. Sponsons have been removed for that aggressive late war/1946 look, anti aircraft armour on turret roof and rear deck, scratch built spare track hangers, tools and c hooks moved to the rear. I'm toying with adding skirt hangers and skirts. The Taigen recoil will be converted to servo operation, hidden battle system added and to top it off will be a tk60 or tk40 control board

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c.rainford73 · Post by **c.rainford73** » Wed Oct 17, 2018 4:28 pm

She's a beauty. Love all the brass bits and accessories. Should be quite a beast when completed

Marco Peter · Post by **Marco Peter** » Wed Oct 17, 2018 4:51 pm

tomhugill wrote:Hey folks, the second new project. A Tamiya based panther f, using the Taigen upper and turret. She's got some Taigen steel wheels mixed in and Taigen metal tracks. Sponsons have been removed for that aggressive late war/1946 look, anti aircraft armour on turret roof and rear deck, scratch built spare track hangers, tools and c hooks moved to the rear. I'm toying with adding skirt hangers and skirts. The Taigen recoil will be converted to servo operation, hidden battle system added and to top it off will be a tk60 or tk40 control board

And what parts are still Tamiya then? Hahahaha!

tomhugill · Post by **tomhugill** » Wed Oct 17, 2018 5:15 pm

Marco Peter wrote:
tomhugill wrote:Hey folks, the second new project. A Tamiya based panther f, using the Taigen upper and turret. She's got some Taigen steel wheels mixed in and Taigen metal tracks. Sponsons have been removed for that aggressive late war/1946 look, anti aircraft armour on turret roof and rear deck, scratch built spare track hangers, tools and c hooks moved to the rear. I'm toying with adding skirt hangers and skirts. The Taigen recoil will be converted to servo operation, hidden battle system added and to top it off will be a tk60 or tk40 control board
And what parts are still Tamiya then? Hahahaha!

Chassis, suspension, gearboxes, idlers, most of the wheels, sprockets, back plate, speaker.

Ad Lav · Post by **Ad Lav** » Wed Oct 17, 2018 5:23 pm

Nice couple of projects mate

Reaper332 · Post by **Reaper332** » Wed Oct 17, 2018 11:09 pm

Very nice Tom , looking forward to seeing how it turns out..

c.rainford73 · Post by **c.rainford73** » Thu Oct 18, 2018 12:54 am

Tom where did the steel looking upper hull protective plates come from? Are they scratch built?? They are fantastic

Marco Peter · Post by **Marco Peter** » Thu Oct 18, 2018 12:26 pm

tomhugill wrote:
Marco Peter wrote: And what parts are still Tamiya then? Hahahaha!
Chassis, suspension, gearboxes, idlers, most of the wheels, sprockets, back plate, speaker.

That's more than I thought after the list of changes!

tomhugill · Post by **tomhugill** » Thu Oct 18, 2018 1:09 pm

c.rainford73 wrote:Tom where did the steel looking upper hull protective plates come from? Are they scratch built?? They are fantastic

Hey Carl, yeah scratch built!

Pzjgr · Post by **Pzjgr** » Sun Jan 20, 2019 6:03 am

Very nice Panther F. You said you put in some Taigen Steel wheels in with the Tamiya, did you have to modify the Tamiya suspension arms so the Taigen wheels could fit?

The reason I ask is I want to do a Tamiya Panther G with steel wheels if possible.

Thank you,
Duane

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