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Reply To: Panther Tank

June 16, 2019 at 3:31 pm #1405340

oriskany

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Epic looking Panther, @volleyfireandy . @a27cromwell – you can tell it’s a “D” because of the front glacis plate / machine gun port and the exhaust assembly? If I remember correctly the exhaust of the early Panther Ds (the first ones used as Cherkasskoye / Kursk with 10th Panzer Brigade / Grossdeustchland Division) would not burn the fuel completely and it would accumulate along the inside of those exhaust pipes until they caught fire and more or less blew up the tank.

The PSC kits in 15mm (45 parts in a 15mm kit!) were really helpful with this, they gave separate exhaust assemblies for Ds, As, and Gs, so you could pick which variant you wanted to build.