Obscure early Panther question

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If you have a model of a Panther D or early Panther A, can you tell me exactly how long the bow machine gun slot cover is, and how wide? I’m going to convert a late A to an early A. It’s going to require that I cut off the ball mount and replace it with the slot cover.

Thanks for any help.

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Larry, I assume you’re doing a 1/35 conversion?

I don’t have my models with me (I’m at work…shhhh), but I’ll try and measure one when I go home for lunch.

Bill

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I’m currently building a Dragon Panther D. I’m assuming the the slot you’re talking about is the one on the left, as you’re facing the front of the tank. The outside dimensions that I measured where 4mm x 9mm. . This slot is a rectangle with the length running from top to bottom of the hull, not left to right.

Maybe wpiw can verify my findings!

Glenn

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Thanks guys. As long as I know what scale you are working with, I can then convert. Appreciate it!

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Larry,

The DML Panther D I’m building is 1/35th. Sorry, one shouldn’t assume anything!

Glenn

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Glenn;

I measured the one on my 1/35 Dragon D while I was at lunch. It is 9.5cm X 4.0cm. It has a bevel all the way around it. The measurements at the edge of the bevel is 7.5X2.0cm. I didn’t measure the thickness. Sorry. (I have the measurements in SAE at home, if you’d rather use them.

Hope this is what you need and helps.

Bill

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Bill-

I defer to a better set of eyes!

Glenn

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Bill are you sure about centimeters? [:D]

Good luck Larry. [:p]

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Larry

The DML Dragon kit comes with 2 different covers, one with an “arrow” piece on the face, the other just flat but both have the same external dimensions.

For placement on the hull - the bottom of the cover is exactly level with the hull sponson bottoms (bottoms of the horizontal arm of a “T” ) and 29mm right of the left bottom corner. The top of the cover is 9.5mm from the top of the glacis.

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Hope you can understand this diagram. Ignore the x’s (they are there to keep measurements right). The green is the hatch cover, the red the hull and the blue the sponson bottom extended to the bottom of the hatch to show the measurement.

Oh yeah, I think Bill means mm, not cm and then his measurements will tbe fine. Must be tired eh Bill.