ORIGINAL: abo

After reading this post, it got me thinking about something I read a while back. On checking an old AFV MAGAZINE from January 2008, lo and behold! a bergepanther converted to a flakpanzer.

The model was based on a photograph taken in the village of Bohemen now in the czech republic showing a bergpanther sitting in a town square with a 37mm Flak on top. The supposition being that at this time of the conflict, in this theatre, there were fewer tanks to recover and more of a need for an AA capability. It appears to be a field conversion with the wooden cockpit area removed and the Flak 37 literally just bolted over the turret ring.

The model looks pretty damn good. I'm sure some of our more ITK members will come on here and swear black is white that it couldn't have happened because the moon rising in Aquarius meant that they didn't have the correct delineated flangebolts for the thingummy jig to be attached to the whatsit but I'm only going on this ONE photograph and the subsequent article and model build in this magazine.

Abo.