Amazing how much models have improved in 40 years.
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Friday, December 4, 2020
Panther Comparison
Amazing how much models have improved in 40 years.
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Trident has beautiful WW2 stuff. Back then tho you could buy 100 Roco
Panthers for 1 Trident Panther. Even Dave Warman could not afford those in mass! LOL!
The Trident Panther is not really a production tank; it's mounting the prototype "schmal" turret, with saukopf mantlet, and without the muzzle brake. Cool model anyway; but not "realistic" as far as ww2 goes as I don't believe it ever saw service?
The Roco Panther was a terrible model; the gun was unbelieveably thin, more like an antenna than a cannon; and I don't think I ever saw one that wasn't badly warped or twisted. I had a couple when I was little; I couldn;t stand the guns; finally I just snapped them off and replaced them with the 16 inch gun barrels from an old "Iowa" battleship model...too short for a real panther, but much thicker; at least they LOOKED like gun barrels...
Thanks for reading Unknown. The Roco Panther was 49 cents in olden times. The Trident Panther was probably 20 times more expensive, but by that time the Roco Panther was going for more than $5 each as well.
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Banzai good eye. But the Panther F with the narrow front turret probably did see combat in Berlin in the last 15 minutes of the war. But in very small numbers, probably single digits. Also, Trident makes a bewildering array of Panthers, I just had this one handy. They make the D,A,G, and F and several variants as well.
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