Panther restored

[Ken MacLean]

A new display in the Lebreton Gallery, Canadian War Museum.

[Guest IMHF]

Beautiful WWII German Panzer love the Zemmerite............

Thank you for sharing

SSG Luna, Lorenzo

[Gordon Williamson]

Nice to see another of the big cats being properly looked after.

[Paul R]

Nice to see another of the big cats being properly looked after.

It looks like it just rolled off the assembly line!! They did a great job.

[Guest IMHF]

The Panther G is my Favorite WWII German Panzer Tank.....

SSG Luna, Lorenzo

[Guest Darrell]

I agree it looks nice ... but they should have left it late war dull grey camo as the color. Not sure how many fought in the desert .... (or at least that's what that camo reminds me of).

[Brian Wolfe]

Hi Ken,

Welcome and thanks for the great post.

Yet another reason to avoid visiting Parliament when in Ottawa.

Cheers

Brian

[Firefly]

Wow!

Amos

[Tiger-pie]

I agree it looks nice ... but they should have left it late war dull grey camo as the color. Not sure how many fought in the desert .... (or at least that's what that camo reminds me of).

Depends how late war you are talking Darrell (I can only see red X's, so I assume it is dark yellow or dark yellow/ brick red). RAL 7021 (dark grey) was used in 1945 in the last months of the war due to shortages and/or expediancy. Prior to this in 1944 tanks were leaving the factory in dark yellow (RAL 7028). Tanks units would then apply paint (if they had the time or supplies!!) that best suited the local enviroment. One scheme ordered by OKH was on October 31st of 1944 was that dark yellow (RAL 7028) was to be replaced by primer red oxide (RAL 8012) as a base colour with dark yellow (RAL 7028).

OKH orders regarding paint schemes for armour toward the end of the war were many, some units ceased to exist before the changes could be implemented, or were simply ignored.

Regards;

Johnsy

Edit: No Panthers served in the desert, only Tigers were sent to North Africa, and not many of them either.

Edited February 6, 2008 by Tiger-pie

[zipperheads9]

I have seen the Pics and they did a buetiful job.This was a war trophy brought back to Canada .The color may have been done from original found on the vehicle as it did have zimmerit left on it. It did run into the 1950's so is a possible runner .That is not the policy of that particular museum though. Still it is now inside and looks Buetiful.

Mark

[nesredep]

Hello!

Wow.

All the best

Nesredep

[dond]

And now the pics are gone....

[Paul R]

I love it when entire threads are ruined by broken image links....

[Guest IMHF]

I agree it looks nice ... but they should have left it late war dull grey camo as the color. Not sure how many fought in the desert .... (or at least that's what that camo reminds me of).

I agree with you, I love the panzer gray color..... with a little mud on it.

Lorenzo

[Guest IMHF]

I have seen the Pics and they did a buetiful job.This was a war trophy brought back to Canada .The color may have been done from original found on the vehicle as it did have zimmerit left on it. It did run into the 1950's so is a possible runner .That is not the policy of that particular museum though. Still it is now inside and looks Buetiful.

Mark

I would love to see it in person and wish they would let you go inside and look at the interior.

That would be great:

Lorenzo

[Ed_Haynes]

One of the problems with thinking that online sources are in any way "real"?

There is, of course, always the Wayback Machine (are any of you old enough to recall that?).

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

[Guest IMHF]

One of the problems with thinking that online sources are in any way "real"?

There is, of course, always the Wayback Machine (are any of you old enough to recall that?).

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

Wow 85 billion websites from 1996 to a few months ago that would take more than a life time to review..

Lorenzo