I recently picked up Verlinden’s damaged Panther A zimmerit. The pattern is a diamond pattern, as opposed to the usual square tile pattern. I was wondering if anyone had any reference pictures or any info on any diamond patterned A’s. I am trying to figure out what turret number and what colors to paint it. Thanks to anyone who can help!
Panthers had many different patterns of zimmerit applied to them… The best bet would be to buy a good referrence book and build off that… There are some decent pics online, it’s just a matter of finding the sites that have them…
Here is a link you can try…
Yeah, I think I will need to find a reference book. Been looking online all day without finding anything useful. Thanks
Thanks for the Achtung Panzer site. That has a lot of useful refernce photos for a couple of other projects I have going
Will get back to you, I have 400 or so Panther pics on my HD.
That would be fantastic!
Claymore68, if you find any good pics, e-mail them to me at jwest21@zbzoom.net. Thanks again
Will do.
Apparently Squadron’s “Panther in Scale” has a picture of a turret with the diamond shape on page 31. I haven’t seen it (my local hobby shop doesn’t have it. I will have to go look at the next model show in September to see if it is worth buying)
WOW! Over 400 pics and not ONE with diamond pattern zim! [:0][:I][:(]
Need help with anything else? Cutaway? Color plates? I have those, honest! [:D]
A picture of a diamond pattern must be more rare than a picture of Bigfoot and Elvis together. I went to my local Hobbyland and looked through Squadron’s Panther and Action and an Osprey book and all I found was a picture of a turret with a diamond pattern underneath a ridged pattern and a grainy picture of a Bergpanther with diamond zimmerit, It was very nice of Verlinden to make such an obscure set. That’s sarcasm, in case it didn’t translate to text. Thank you very much for looking for me.
I figure I will have to throw the Panther A on the “waiting to be built” pile until I find an example of the tank or just get some other tiled zimmerit
No need to look through your 400 pics again for anything else for me. I appreciate you looking once- no need to do it again
I know it’s not much, but I did find this:
http://www.panzerdiesel.com/data/e/27p5_karo.html?PHPSESSID=c2fcaf106d839ffd95658218ea50cc46
There’s a neat diamond patching on the hatch in the rear, and also I’ve see it on fenders. In fact, the Red 221 (the Early A I just did) had diamond cross hatching on the fenders in the pics I have seen and I carried the detail onto the rear turret hatch. Never seen one w/ a full hull that way though.
Thanks. I would like to see some pics of Red 221 if you have any
If you look on page 31 of Squadrons “Panther in Action” you will see a turret in a re-fit yard with the “diamond” patterned zimmerit…
I saw that. Unfortunately that has the combed second layer. Verlinden’s set has a smooth diamond pattern. They must like their customers to really have to work for accuracy. On top of not having any info on the pattern they provide, they didn’t include any instructions either, leaving me just two pics on the box to go by. What fun!
The pics I have of tiled "D"s in Italy are in a book that won’t fit in a scanner. I think this pic might be one of its close kin somewhere in Italy. Can’t tell without blowing up the picture though.
http://www.ww2mmrefphotos.com/images/27%20kills/Panther_1.jpg
So maybe Verlinden should have made their diamond pattern for a D instead? That link looks like a monocolored tank (not going far out on a limb and guessing dunkelgelb) with no visible markings.
I should clarify in that I think that particular picture is a A, although I think I have some pics of tiled "D"s in Italy as well. Regarding that particular pic, I’m guessing 'gelb A and I think there are some turret numbers, but they are very faded.