I was pretty heavy into German armor at one time and thought I knew all the variants and experimentals, but I’ve never heard of this. I saw it mentioned in one of the forums.Can somebody explain?
Coelian was an anti-aircraft tank. I don’t think it was put in production.
mark956
Breezely,
Check out the following link: http://millerkf.tripod.com/main_Model_page.htm and look for the image of the Panther with the dual AA guns sticking out of a strange looking turret.
As I understand it, the Germans experimented with this design at the close of WWII. Not sure if any actually saw action. They supposedly pulled the older Panther A’s out of the field and equipped them with the experimental turret. It’s a great conversion. I have the Accurate Armor turret/conversion set, and it looks quite good. The barrels are metal, and everything else is resin (kind of a puke green resin). I have the Tamiya Panther G, but looks like I’m going to have to locate an A somewhere to be able to do the conversion properly—that is, if what I heard originally is correct.
Gip Winecoff
My understanding is that this stuff was a resin made in the UK in WWII for some military purpose, and huge loads of it remained when the war was over. I don’t know the details, but apparently in order to get rid of this stuff, the government prohibited import or production of other kinds of resin. It’s some kind of story like that – as I said, I may have the details wrong. That’s why, to this day, English resin items are often that malodorous, poor-quality greenish resin.
That said, I bought the Accurate Armour Pz I a few months ago, my first purchase of an all-resin vehicle kit (I have a few all-resin artillery pieces) and it is cleanly cast in a lovely vanilla resin that doesn’t hardly stink at all! [:p]
wasnt the Corelian panther used in Star Wars with princess leah on it?[#oops]
dragon had a model out of it a while ago
The Coelian was to be armed with twin 3.7cm guns with talk of 5.5 cm guns being added later. Of course, neither happened.
“It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it.”-R.E.Lee
Thank you all. Learn something new every day.
there was a panther that had four 20mms in a turret like a panther
It was a prototype of an antiaircraft tank with a panther hull.
Yes, that is what we all said above in 2003 when the question was originally asked and answered.
What is the point in rehashing an almost 8 year old post that was answered almost 8 years ago?
Im more concerned with the fact that somehow i managed to post an answer to something i know nothing about 7 YEARS BEFORE I JOINED THE FORUMS!!!
I suspect that there’s something off with the dates on this thread and possibly the forum indexing. When I looked earlier, the post that Mikey is referring to, starting with “Design work on the “Coelian Panther”” appeared to be written by me… (also dated before I joined the forum).
creepy
LOL…
Ditto for my post in “2003”…if only the error tacked on a few thousand “post counts” as well…[whstl]
…maybe some pesky space aliens sent us back thru time ?[;)][aln]
Or we could blame it on John Titor…[:-*][^o)]
Yup!I agree.In 2003 I hadn’t even heard of the Coelian.I certainly don’t remember ever leaving such a knowledgable post about it!
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Yup! Me, too. Make that 8 years for me. [:|]
I blame Manny. Obviously, some of those experiments before the end of the (WWII, the Big One) were more successful than we thought. [proplr]
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You’ve got my “early” posting beat by a couple years. I didn’t even own a digital camera in 03, much less a computer. [:^)] [*-)][whstl]
Howard
MAAAAANNNNNNNNYYYY!!!
Again, I am in the presence of genius. [:D[[snWow]
I fear I have fallen amognst a gang of rogues. Cool!!![t$t][snYea]