I've done several Panther skins in between projects for HTC.
Just click on the thumbnail for a larger screenshot.The first one is an Ausf A from the 5th SS Panzer Division fighting in Poland during August 1944. This was the tank of SS Untersturmfuhrer Nicolussi-Leck, CO of the 8th Company. I've altered the schurtzen plates and added a driver's hatch to make it more resemble an Ausf A. The colour scheme was base dark yellow with red brown and green mottling. Zimmerit anti magnetic mine paste was applied to the vertical surfaces and I've reproduced this on the skin.
The second Panther is an Ausf G from the 12th SS Panzer Division fighting in Normandy in June 1944. This tank was actually knocked out and then returned to service. A shot penetrated the RH side of the turret presumably killing most of the crew. The German repair depot welded a piece of armour over this hole, repaired the internal damage and sent it back to the front line. The new crew quickly painted their tactical number over the old one and were soon in action. The British later captured this vehicle largely intact and tested it. I've skinned it in the form it was captured in, with the repaired armour plate and badly damaged Zimmerit paste.
The third Panther is another Ausf G from Panzer Battalion 113. This tank was unusual in that it had both Zimmerit paste and an "ambush" colour scheme. The period in which German factories were applying both Zimmerit and ambush schemes was only a week or two long. The ambush schemes were a short lived (took too long to apply) experiment in camouflage. Small dots of colour were painted over the main camouflage scheme to break it up more. Each factory making the Panther had a different variation of this scheme, this an MNH factory disc pattern scheme.
An M10 tank destroyer knocked out this tank near Parroy in France in late September 1944. It was later recovered by US troops and driven around. There's a good thread if you want to read more about this tank
here.
