Tamed Panther: "Cuckoo"
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11 13 February, 15:55

This looks better than my Panther. Then again my Tamiya was/is (it's in the paint shop) my first ever 1:35 scale AFV…if I ever get to your level of build quality I'll be a happy cockney 😘😇😊😊😁
1 6 March, 11:02

By the way, you can always trust you Jakko to have an interesting subject matter. Something a little quirky or different. Never knew the allies had one. It was relatively common to use an enemy's vehicles I believe but it's still somewhat of a shock when you actually see it.
1 6 March, 11:11

There are a good number of photos of captured Panthers used by the Allies, but Cuckoo is probably the best-known. For a lot more pictures of all kinds of captured German vehicles, take a look at this thread on Missing-Lynx: tapatalk.com/groups/..-allies-t337227.html
1 6 March, 11:23

If you look at the new hatch door you built, if you zoom in a little it looks a little bit like the palm tree part of the DAK marking that has the tree with a swastika half way down its trunk. Or am I going mad? They do say the human brain tries to find familiar shapes in everything. Could be a case of that! 🙂
1 6 March, 11:25

You mean on the Zimmerit? That's an arrow pointing up, to ensure the hatch would end up the right way round 🙂 I had to take care that the ridges and grid pattern on the hatch line up with those on the turret, and the arrow helps with that.
2 6 March, 12:06

Thanks, I like model threads that actually show what the builder is doing rather than just posting the finished article 🙂
2 7 March, 10:03

Ahhh thanks for the explanation Jakko. I thought it must've been intentional!
1 7 March, 11:24
Album info
In late 1944, the British 6th Guards Tank Brigade captured a Panther Ausf. G in the Netherlands, repainted it and named it "Cuckoo".