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Glen B Lieutenant General
Posts : 1816 Join date : 2012-03-22 Age : 71 Location : Fort Erie, Ontario
| Subject: Pantiger, Some Historic Perspective Sat Feb 09, 2013 9:14 pm | |
| http://www.taigentanks.com/Panther.htmlA Can Am legend, operated by Captain Action, (who is himself, a Can Am legend) Sigmund (Ziggy) Porsche was a nephew of Ferdinand. Ziggy was too fond of the Biergarten and other questionable pastimes, resulting in him flunking out of Berlin Poly-technique in 1938. The family pressured Ferdinand to keep his errant nephew out of trouble and gainfully employed, much to Ferdinand's resentment. Ferdinand banished young Ziggy to an obscure back office in the company facility at Stuttgart. Over the years, several impractical designs resulted, while Ziggy grew jealous of his uncle's fame and success. Ziggy eventually got to see prototypes of the Tiger I and Panther. Seeing a chance to grab some fame and success, he applied himself like never before, even giving up his trips to the biergartens (at least one went out of business). Ziggy shamelessly copied design features of both tanks, since he was used to copying others work as a student at Berlin Poly-technique. The result was a combination of both, a "Pantiger" Ziggy used his family influence to get some built. When Hitler was shown mere drawings of the Pantiger, he flew into an extreme rage, very bad, even for him. He said he could not have anything that looked like that in the Panzer Divisions, or something like that, punctuated with inarticulate screams, while foaming at the mouth. It was serious enough that no one wanted to mention some actually existed So they were quickly loaded on a train, heavily covered with netting and shipped east in time for Kursk. (Capatain Action needs to re-paint his, the Pantigers at Kursk where grey with yellow over-spray patches, not three colour camo). They performed fairly well at Kursk but after the initial reception to just seeing the drawings of them, they were kept obscured. A later episode. The little known German Civil War of 1944. Shortages in the spring of 1944 caused the Pantigers to be shipped to southern Russia. Someone didn't get the message about keeping the the Pantigers existence obscured because some correspondents and photographers from Signal magazine were there to take pictures. The Pantigers were issued to a group of veterans. Most of these men had endured so much and were good soldiers. However, they were asked to pose for some pictures "for the folks" back home. The idea of them being in a magazine article with tanks that looked like that was too much and they cracked and went rogue, going after Soviet and Axis units alike until they were taken out by Tiger I's of Abt. 506...............................and that's what we will re-enact in the 2013 season _____________________________________________ "Luck favours the prepared!."
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Stince General
Posts : 2371 Join date : 2012-03-21 Age : 49 Location : Windsor, Ontario
| Subject: Re: Pantiger, Some Historic Perspective Sat Feb 09, 2013 9:32 pm | |
| I heard they made their debut on June 15th, 1943 involving some secret operation prior to Kursk. The details of the mission are still consider top secret.
The day is still celebrated in small Russian town as "International Pan-Tiger Day". _____________________________________________ HL Panzer III | HL Tiger | HL Jagdpanther | HL Panther | Mato Sherman Hooben Elefant | HL Pershing | HL Bergepanzer IV | Tamiya Leopard 1A | WSN T-34 HL "Golden" Pan-Tiger | M16 Halftrack | HL Panzer IV | Tamiya KV-1 | Tamiya Tiger
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Glen B Lieutenant General
Posts : 1816 Join date : 2012-03-22 Age : 71 Location : Fort Erie, Ontario
| Subject: Re: Pantiger, Some Historic Perspective Sat Feb 09, 2013 10:10 pm | |
| _____________________________________________ "Luck favours the prepared!."
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Strato50 General
Posts : 2188 Join date : 2012-03-28 Age : 38 Location : Hamilton, On
| Subject: Re: Pantiger, Some Historic Perspective Sat Feb 09, 2013 10:42 pm | |
| - Glen B wrote:
- After WWII, Ziggy was detained in the east, before escaping, he was rumored to have been influental in the developmental of the Trabant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant
I actually LOVE that car, I'd own one if it was practical.. _____________________________________________ Tiger I - Panzer II - Panzer III - Panzer IV - Chi Nu Kai - Panther G - KV-1b 756(r) M4A3(76) Sherman - T-34/85 - M3 Grant - SECRET PROJECT
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Stince General
Posts : 2371 Join date : 2012-03-21 Age : 49 Location : Windsor, Ontario
| Subject: Re: Pantiger, Some Historic Perspective Sun Feb 10, 2013 12:42 am | |
| Didn't every henchman from the early James Bond movie drive one of those? _____________________________________________ HL Panzer III | HL Tiger | HL Jagdpanther | HL Panther | Mato Sherman Hooben Elefant | HL Pershing | HL Bergepanzer IV | Tamiya Leopard 1A | WSN T-34 HL "Golden" Pan-Tiger | M16 Halftrack | HL Panzer IV | Tamiya KV-1 | Tamiya Tiger
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knispel Retired
Posts : 1318 Join date : 2012-07-01 Age : 72 Location : North of Kitchener
| Subject: Re: Pantiger, Some Historic Perspective Mon Feb 11, 2013 12:27 pm | |
| - Glen B wrote:
- After WWII, Ziggy was detained in the east, before escaping, he was rumored to have been influental in the developmental of the Trabant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant
I had a good laugh about the racing version. Suspension's rubber bands need replacing |
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Glen B Lieutenant General
Posts : 1816 Join date : 2012-03-22 Age : 71 Location : Fort Erie, Ontario
| Subject: Re: Pantiger, Some Historic Perspective Fri Feb 22, 2013 9:38 pm | |
| _____________________________________________ "Luck favours the prepared!."
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Strato50 General
Posts : 2188 Join date : 2012-03-28 Age : 38 Location : Hamilton, On
| Subject: Re: Pantiger, Some Historic Perspective Fri Feb 22, 2013 11:26 pm | |
| _____________________________________________ Tiger I - Panzer II - Panzer III - Panzer IV - Chi Nu Kai - Panther G - KV-1b 756(r) M4A3(76) Sherman - T-34/85 - M3 Grant - SECRET PROJECT
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knispel Retired
Posts : 1318 Join date : 2012-07-01 Age : 72 Location : North of Kitchener
| Subject: Re: Pantiger, Some Historic Perspective Sun Feb 24, 2013 2:36 pm | |
| When I ordered my first HL tanks one was a Panther G . As I found out later it was a " ziggy " Pan-Tiger. Subsequently I ordered a custom Tiagen Panther G from Nitro and got a very nice Pan-Tiger.
What if I cut the front to add the proper slope ,would that make it a Panther G or should I just sell it and try again for the real thing? |
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White Tiger Staff Sergeant
Posts : 342 Join date : 2013-04-04 Age : 35 Location : Burnaby,BC
| Subject: Re: Pantiger, Some Historic Perspective Sat Apr 13, 2013 5:45 pm | |
| *palm* I fail to see why the tank was so "ugly".....sure the body is way bigger then the turret........ to a comical fashion....... _____________________________________________ |
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Negaduck Captain
Posts : 813 Join date : 2013-01-03 Age : 40 Location : Grafton Ontario
| Subject: Re: Pantiger, Some Historic Perspective Sun Aug 12, 2018 1:44 pm | |
| this one needs to see the light again lol _____________________________________________ I do things in the name of science but first hold my beer
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Airbrushler Retired
Posts : 2567 Join date : 2012-04-27 Age : 60 Location : Windsor, ON
| Subject: Re: Pantiger, Some Historic Perspective Sun Aug 12, 2018 3:24 pm | |
| LOL Stince needs to post Goldie this is the only one i could find _____________________________________________ |
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Jarlath Field Marshal
Posts : 2436 Join date : 2016-06-01 Age : 51 Location : Kitchener, ON
| Subject: Re: Pantiger, Some Historic Perspective Tue Aug 14, 2018 5:28 pm | |
| LOL. Pantiger Bling! Does that thing still exist? |
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Airbrushler Retired
Posts : 2567 Join date : 2012-04-27 Age : 60 Location : Windsor, ON
| Subject: Re: Pantiger, Some Historic Perspective Tue Aug 14, 2018 6:00 pm | |
| you should see the exhaust _____________________________________________ |
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Stince General
Posts : 2371 Join date : 2012-03-21 Age : 49 Location : Windsor, Ontario
| Subject: Re: Pantiger, Some Historic Perspective Tue Aug 14, 2018 8:08 pm | |
| - Jarlath wrote:
- LOL. Pantiger Bling! Does that thing still exist?
I still have it, but the dam cat broke the spoiler on it. _____________________________________________ HL Panzer III | HL Tiger | HL Jagdpanther | HL Panther | Mato Sherman Hooben Elefant | HL Pershing | HL Bergepanzer IV | Tamiya Leopard 1A | WSN T-34 HL "Golden" Pan-Tiger | M16 Halftrack | HL Panzer IV | Tamiya KV-1 | Tamiya Tiger
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Jarlath Field Marshal
Posts : 2436 Join date : 2016-06-01 Age : 51 Location : Kitchener, ON
| Subject: Re: Pantiger, Some Historic Perspective Tue Aug 14, 2018 11:30 pm | |
| - Stince wrote:
- Jarlath wrote:
- LOL. Pantiger Bling! Does that thing still exist?
I still have it, but the dam cat broke the spoiler on it. I never even noticed the spoiler... I had to avert my eyes repeatedly.... |
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