Tank Lovers Group
Hobbies & Interests
This group is for everyone who like tanks, sci-fi tanks, real tanks, funny tanks, you can put here tank mods, tank maps, simply everything with straps, armor and gun :D
The Panther Ausf.F was designed as a new turret, the Schurmalturm, on a slightly modified Panther Ausf.G chassis. Photographs show Panther Ausf.F chassis and turrets already in production in Daimler-Benz in April 1945, but there is no evidence that final assembly of any series production Panther Ausf.F was completed. If the turrets had been mounted on a completed chassis, they would have lacked the optical components. Our colour plate shows how a Panther Ausf.F might have looked had any been completed. At the beginning of February 1945, orders were issued for the assembly plants to apply a base of olivgrün RAL 6003 (dark olive green) to new production equipment. An original colour photograph of a Tiger Ausf.B, complted in March 1945, reveals that dunkelgelb RAL 7028 (tan) was applied in stripes and patches to create a camouflage pattern over the base coat of olivgrün RAL 6003 (dark olive green).
Sexy Panther
Indeed. Had the war gone on a month longer, the allies would have seen these and perhaps even captured a few.