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[Gerhard Michel]

Hello together,

my name is Gerhard and my home is near Nuremberg in Germany. Since a few days I am owner of a Jagdpanther (hunting panther) manufactured in 2008, which had several pre-owners without being ready to run at any time, although its parts are completely finished. Now I am trying to add functions such as cannon movement and recoil, mounting spiradrives and complete the electrically equipment (esc, sound) with own solutions tested in my other tank models. This model is my forth tank in 1/6 scale, but my first Armortek tank. Take a view at its delivery state (not visible parts were packed by):

[Adrian Harris]

Willkommen Gerhard.

Your JagdPanther looks very good - it is a shame it has never run.

It will be interesting to see how you approach the recoil, as I believe the gun traverse mechanism goes through the barrel.

Adrian.

[Rolf Mönke]

Wellcome Gerhard!

[duncanallender]

Welcome Gerhard,
Look forward to seeing your JP up and running.
Regards
Dunc

[Gerhard Michel]

Hello guys,

thanks for welcome. If there is an interest in following my efforts to complete this model, I will post some more info and pictures. First of all: please excuse my English; I didn`t use it the last 50 years, and I never learned expressions of tank technology. This could cause some funny results, but I hope the pictures may show all that I cannot explain by words........

Mounting the roadwheels and the idler wheels (?) was no problem; only one road wheel cap thread was a little small to fit its counterpart in the road wheel. I don't like to glue fine threads, therefore I used 2 extra worm screws to tighten it. Hiding with “mud” will do the rest, so I hope.

One of the taperlocks caused a little dífficulty. The picture will show the problem:



I succeeded in repairing it by widening the unthreaded hole part. The other taperlock was fine.

The (not yet mounted) standard drives were changed against spiradrives for better efficiency:

[William Gardeniers]

Willkommen Gerhard

If you do building tread you can better open a tread in the jagdpanther tread

Kind regards William

[Gerhard Michel]

Hello William,

thanks for the hint! I will do that.........

[Gerhard Michel]

Hello guys,

meanwhile I am posting my further completion of the 'forgotten Jagdpanther' in the related chapter.

[Peter Silcock]

Very neat solutions to the problems encountered there Gerhard. Recoil on my Jagd has defeated me so far.

[Gerhard Michel]

Thanks, Peter!

Well, the Jagdpanther is my forth tank in 1/6 scale. E. g. all three other models I modified to steel tank treads. Therefore I had to construct new driving wheels of my own (with changeable sprockets). The Jagdpanther problems are somewhat simpler till now.......