This conversion I got in a collection, it is not one I did myself. It is a Roco Tiger II hull with the turret from a Roco Panther tank, and a gun from an unknown source, it may be a Roco Tiger II gun that has been cut down.
In WWII the Germans determined that having a narrow turret front was a good way to avoid getting hit in the turret. Also by having the sides sloping back from the front, a hit on the side from the front was likely to bounce off.
They produced a new variant of the Panther, the Panther F with a new narrower turret.
Here someone has taken a Roco Panther turret, put a new turret front on it, and added a much larger gun and created a similar version of the Tiger II.
Additional details include a large hatch at the turret rear.
The Roco Panther is a terrible model and vastly underscale. Nearly all of mine have been traded off over the years. However this conversion is interesting from a Panzer 46 point of view.
My collection includes a number of paper panzers, vehicles that were fielded in very low numbers, or in some cases were only paper design studies and never even made it to the wooden mock up stage. They provide interesting vehicles for Allied and Soviet forces to contend with for wargames that take place late in 1945.
No comments:
Post a Comment