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[About actual vehicle]
- Although it is known as a masterpiece among the German tanks of World War II German tanks V No. Pantor tank, before the first type D type enters mass production Realize the improvement point Hitler demanded for the trial type It was Pantor II that the development was promoted to do.
- Development began in 1943. In addition to strengthening the armor of the body more, we also made efforts to improve the efficiency of the undercarriage, adopting a pair of single pin type crawler tracks of 660 mm in width for the steel rolling wheels which took account of rubber resources, It was added.
- Also, the turret was scheduled to adopt a small turret, Schumar Turm type turret close to the type used later for Pantograph F type.
- However, it is judged that it is more efficient to reinforce the armor of the Panta Tank by side skirts and equipment of Schultzen and incorporate some of the other improvements into the existing panters The necessity of Pantor II development faded and mass production was abandoned.
- And the improvement obtained from that development was made use as PantaG type.
[About the model]
- Panta II, planned as one of the German army masterpiece tanks of World War II as an improved version of Panta, is reproduced on 1/35 scale. Unfortunately I modeled the appearance of planned vehicles that ended without seeing completion.
- The lower part of the body is a mechanical finish with the suspension arm and the steel rolling wheel. Crawler track adopts the assembly type of plastic parts and reality is enough.
- The upper part of the car modeled a small turret that was scheduled to be adopted.
- Hatch on Commanders' cupola, furthermore, range finder etc. equipped with jumping out to the left and right side of the turret side, plenty of atmosphere. It is a finish that conveys the mechanical delicacy to the powerfulness equipped with a main gun in a compact style.
- Of course, the upper part of the car body also adopts the inclined armor, the ducts and fans of the engine deck, the hatch of the cockpit and the car-mounted tools are also reproduced three-dimensionally.
- We are looking forward to trying out marking and coloring with inflating the imagination as to what kind of battle was shown if it was mass-produced and put on the latter half of the war, only for vehicles that were not mass-produced.
- In addition, it can be said that it is one indispensable part of the Pantor collection.
[Major features]
- Reproduce planned vehicle pantor II planned as one of the German army masterpiece tanks of World War II as an improved version of Panta
- Suspension arm and steel rolling wheel are mechanically finished at the lower part of the body
- Modeled the small turret that was scheduled to be adopted at the upper part of the body
- The upper part of the car body also adopts the inclined armor, ducts and fans of the engine deck, hatch of the cockpit and in-car tools etc. are reproduced stereoscopically
( This is a machine translation. Please allow for possible misinterpretations in the text. )