1/25th Tamiya Panther?

[Pete in Lincs]

Quick question with maybe a complicated answer?

 

Last week I rescued some boxes of kits from

my Mum's attic. Mostly they had been there

since the mid seventies when I left to join up.

Amongst the Spitfires etc was a large Panther

tank. Painted in Humbrol matt white it has a

motor inside, suspension and is about 28 x 14cm.

I'm sure I acquired it built and as is.

I have learnt that it may be 1/25th scale, new to me.

 

I was going to use it for parts for Sci fi scratchbuilds

but wonder if it's actually worth anything to someone?

One exhaust is missing and it needs a good

refurbishment but looks fairly good (to me).

 

I will be grateful for your thoughts.

 

Cheers

Pete

[Panzer Vor!!!]

Try E bay if no one  pipes up from here , but I,m surprised no one has responded 

[Sgt.Squarehead]

I think this is one of Tamiya's early releases, they also did a Jagdpanther IIRC.....Pretty sure there's aftermarket and the like available for it, so it might make an interesting BIG project:

 

https://www.scalemates.com/search-solr.php?q="panzerkampfwagen+v+panther"++1%3A25

 

FWIW

[Panzer Vor!!!]

T34 Su100 Centurion and a Chieftain  as well 

[Pete in Lincs]

There's a Jagdpanther on the bay

for about fifty pounds (unbuilt) so

I figure this is worth about half that?

So I'll probably just hang onto it as is,

unless someone really wants it.

Thanks

Pete

[Sgt.Squarehead]

List seems to be £50-60, so they ain't cheap.....I reckon with a couple of aftermarket bits you could have a cracking model from this one. 

 

PS - Does yours have band type tracks or indy-links Pete?  Tamiya's kits seem to have the latter, but there also appear to be some boxings (not sure if the plastic's the same) from Academy with bands. 

[Pete in Lincs]

Sorry, Sarge, I missed your query last night.

The tracks have independent links, That's what

made me wonder exactly what I had.

As I say, I'll probably just keep it  with a view

to stripping it down & refurbishing it sometime

in the future, unless someone else really wants it.

 

It's an odd scale for AFV's but there must be a market there?

[Panzer Vor!!!]

I thought Academy,s were copies of the Tamiya kits , the Tiger had indy links not bands  so I wonder if all Tammy,s big Tanks did ??

[Pete in Lincs]

I cleaned all the attic dust off of it yesterday,

It seems to be in better condition than I thought!

[Panzer Vor!!!]

Any pics of the beast ?????

[Pete in Lincs]

Sadly no. I'll see if I get time today

and stick them on here.

[Panzer Vor!!!]

Would be nice to see  but only if you've time buddy 

[Sgt.Squarehead]

I'd be interested to see it too Pete. 

[Pete in Lincs]

I managed to take pictures but they are

still in the camera as we had family around

for dinner & they only just left. I have to resize

the pics then do battle with Photobucket before

I can get them onto here.

I tried to remove the turret again but it jammed

and the rear bit popped off! There are old fracture

lines inside it so that would all need reinforcement.

 

I'll do the pics and let you have a look but I will

probably shelve any work on it until I've caught up

on all the Sci fi/kreiger stuff I want to do this year.

My modeling time is really limited nowadays, unfortunately.

Meantime, if anyone really needs it I'm open to offers.

[Pete in Lincs]

At last, a picture of the tank.

With a British standard Humbrol tinlet to show the size of the beastie.

[Sgt.Squarehead]

Some of the details are a bit simplified and the pitch of the track looks to be out,  other than that it looks like a Panther Ausf A to me. 

[Panzer Vor!!!]

Ok bit of TLC and it will look ok still a good base to start on if you ask me