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piney · Last edited by piney on Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:30 pm; edited 1 time in total

came across this while surfing and wondered if it's what I think it is, open to all opinions but I thinks it's a smallturm but can't tell on what and the forum was in german Which I don't read

Jeff Lewis
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Neil_Baumgardner · Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:29 pm Post subject: Re: Is this what I think it is?

Nothing there - file does not exist...

Neil

piney · Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:31 pm Post subject: Re: Is this what I think it is?

Hi Neil
My oops just fixed

Jeff Lewis

MarkHolloway · Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 6:55 pm Post subject: Re: Is this what I think it is?

The turret looks like chocolate cake....German chocolate

Garry_Redmon · Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:13 pm Post subject: Re: Is this what I think it is?

It does look like a schmallturm. It has the stereoscopic rangefinder bulge and low profile cupola. I know the British tested a schmallturm, but did any other allies get one to test?

Cloudy · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Mar 06, 2006 Posts: 75

I had read somewhere that the Brits & US each received one. Bovington has their sadly shot up example but at least it still exists...

Dontos · Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 11:19 pm Post subject: Re: Is this what I think it is?

- piney

It's got my vote....

Schmalturm on GO2WAR2.nl

jtrowbridge5 · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 234

piney.
the cupola seems to be to far back and on the wrong side also it doesnt have the lifting eye just in front of "the lump" my technical term??
take a closer look at my photos from bovington "click on photo"
Dennis

Dontos · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 12:20 am Post subject: Re: Is this what I think it is?

Perhaps image is reversed...

piney · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:06 am Post subject: Re: Is this what I think it is?

Just came across this photo which I haven't seen before on the web page
www.glazik.ru/2007/02/...nther.html
and it shows what appears to be a different scmallturm then the B/W photo above fitted to an earlier Panther chassis. It lacks lifting lugs and the cupola seems lower to my eye and a closer match to the one seen behind the Tiger II

maybe a different prototype?

Jeff Lewis

Vivman · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jul 12, 2006 Posts: 34

- jtrowbridge5

piney.
the cupola seems to be to far back and on the wrong side also it doesnt have the lifting eye just in front of "the lump" my technical term??
take a closer look at my photos from bovington "click on photo"
Dennis

I think it is a matter of the angle of the shot that causes the cupola to look that way.

jtrowbridge5 · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 234

piney.
in the Jentz book on the panther he states that Daimler Benz made a wooden mock up in april 1945, and was located at the benz assembly plant in august 1945
thanks for a remarkable find
dennis

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