- toadmanstankpicturesI'm up there about once a month visiting. Click this link to my website to see a series of photo updates starting with March of 2004: Littlefield Panther restoration
I'll have a new update next week as I plan on visiting again next Saturday.
- Rikard_HufschmiedDavid,
Those tracks are the ones Kevin had cast new aren't they? Do you know if Littlefield had a part in the track batch? I know that the "Panther Collectors" try to team up for manufacture of replacement parts to keep costs down.
I could have sworn that that Panther was a late Ausf. D though ...
Cheers,
Rik
- Jens_O_MehnerRikard,
throw away your old references, as a matter of fact the cupola is the main indicator if it's an A or a D- no As were built with the drum cupola, as indicated by the latest research by Tom Jentz, there was no physical way to mate the drum cupola to the A turret, since the mounting points were of a totally different design.
The glacis MG mount is no indicator, as you've already noted, early As were built with the flap.
Cheers,
Jens O.
- DublinerJentz's Panzer Tracts No. 5-2 - Panzerkampfwagen "Panther"Ausf.A clears up the Ausf D / Ausf A differences once and for all. You can not tell them apart just based on the drum cupola. A few As had drum cupola.
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