Early Panther G

Steve Norris · Post by **Steve Norris** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 5:17 pm

As delivery of the next run of Panthers gets nearer i have started to gather some parts for my early G version.
These are the idlers and exhausts supplied by Robert Morley and are some of the best i have ever seen.

Many thanks to Robert for making these parts available.

Regards

Steve

Robert E Morey · Post by **Robert E Morey** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 6:52 pm

Hi Steve,
Thanks for the praise. Glad you are pleased with the parts. I cant wait to follow your build on the forum. Kind regards,
Bob

simon_manning · Post by **simon_manning** » Fri Dec 17, 2010 12:04 am

nice to see another panther project coming on, your right steve those parts are superb, it will be good to follow another build, regards simon.

Kent Wiik · Post by **Kent Wiik** » Fri Dec 17, 2010 9:17 am

Hi Steve,

Good to hear you this time will go for an Early Ausf G.
My favourite G as I love the rough look of zimmerit and that the summer of 1944 is my kind of period in ww2.

Those items of Bob are work of art and I am so glad me made them as those were of immense concern of me in order to back date the kit Late G.
With a limited workshop almost impossible for me to make myself.

The two other necessary things to change is the mantle chin, quite easy (and messy) but might take some time.
And to have a second fan guards instead of the heater.
Tim makes wonderful fan guards and I have secured a pair for my own build, soon up in my saga.

Looking forward to see more of your build later on.
Kind regards
Kent

Steve Norris · Post by **Steve Norris** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 5:00 pm

Guys.
Hopefully it wont be to long before delivery and then i will start a build thread.
Kent.
I will wait untill i recieve the upper hull before deciding how to proceed with the fan shrouds, I think if Mark makes as good a job with them as he appears to have done with the sprockets then i will just buy another from Armortek.
I would be interested to know how other builders did the mantlet chin removal and what tooling was required.
Regards
Steve

leesellars · Post by **leesellars** » Wed Dec 22, 2010 10:35 pm

Hello Steve

When i took the chin off mine. I put on a milling machine to take the tip off. Then im afraid its out with a file for the rest. It took me a day to do. I have done a couple more since then but they still take ma a day to do.

Lee