JIDM

Guys, the new HL Panther is available at Matotoys site.
http://matomart.com/prodview.php?p=545
Thnks, Jef

Me-109 Jagdflieger

Sure enough according to Mato "This item will be available December 15 2009" If thats true might be time to add it to you Christmass list
Jonathan

YHR

Not until Decemebr 15. I might wait until they are in stock. What a week!!!!!!!

swathdiver

Panthers and Shermans going at it in the hedgerows of Normandy! This is going to be great!

SteelFist

Can any one tell me, does the Ir version come with barrel recoil ? Also, There was a rumor that its ir might be compatible with the tam system. Or is this just more wishful thinking.

fsciorelli

There's a rumor out there that the IR system in work for the new Mato Sherman may be Tamiya compatible
Mato website says "THE GUN BARREL CAN TELESCOPIC AND FLASH". Telescopic in this case translates to recoil.

swathdiver

Yes, when the IR version electronics equip future Shermans they will be Tamiya compatible.

SteelFist

Just what I have been waiting to hear.

Thanks.

SCAT PATTON

Thats great news Swathdiver! Do you have any additional details that can be shared?

Thanks!!

swathdiver

Not yet SCAT. Haven't been involved in that part of the project for a while, our focus shifted elsewhere.

The_Stuff

hmmm.. looks like i got a project lined up when my bb sherman arrives!


i saw that gun recoil part on mato's site the other day. though 'finally!' lol.

pcsguy88

Just noticed it at Mato's site. Yummy. I just got my Jagd this week and will be busy working on her until the Panther is released. One of these days I'll get a Sherman...

RMSINSD

Heng Long's website shows a picture of the new Panther:

Panther F

I hope everyone who get's the new HL Panther repaints it.


- Jeff

swathdiver

Could use a couple of those to battle my M4A1s!

rivetcounter

Your M4 would be better fighting there equals the Panzer IV and Stug III these are the tanks they most frequently engaged and you could also take pictures or make films of your M4’s fighting Panzer IV and put captions on like “our boys take on Tigers” just like they did in WWII

FFR2608

Steve,


I hope the "Tamiya compatibility" is fair to the Tamiya owners of our club. Will be interesting to see how it performs with the big boys.

Darrin

thomasjohnmurphy

I noticed the exhaust is different on the Panther from the Jagdpanther

swathdiver

Are you sure about that rivetcounter? I've seen an awful lot of photos of knocked out Panthers in American areas and read about the battles. Seems the Panther to PZIV ratio was about the same, the PZIIIs as rare as Tigers if not more so.

YHR

I think the 76mm guns, both the Firefly and the later American Shermans accounted well for itself, against everything it shot at.

Wozwasnt

By the time the allies reached Europe the Panther was just as widley used as the PzIV. In 44 and 45 more Panthers were produced then PzIV's so theM4's were just as likely to run into Panthers as they would PzIV's (depending on how unlucky they were that day.)

Gereke

Arrrrggghh!!

So many tanks... so little time...and funding....

chinito_03

according to my 88 yr old patient which is a normandy WWII vet (normandy and belgium) during normandy with thier early sherman.. they tend to came cross with markIV and panthers.. but took them 3 shermans to destroy one markIV or panther but rarely on tigers for they would move back and call on the air strike.. and they only saw few markIII tanks.. after france they engage more panthers than markIV and tigers..

daryl

The_Stuff

so does this mean they have to correct road wheels now? just not a refabed tiger 1?

pcsguy88

The new ones are built using the Jagdpanther hull, not the Pantiger mutant.