My dio is set on the first day after the surrender of Berlin. There were still fanatical units fighting on and the situation was very confused. The two fugures are waiting to join a column and head east to the horrors that await there.
My main reference for this 'little' vignette was Tankpower volume 6 on the Panther. This has some excellent photos [some of which I have included here] as well as a good, simple rundown on the different turrets and their stats.
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These emplacements can be divided into 2 types....
1. improvised with a turret taken from a damaged tank or just a dug in tank.
2. purposefully built fortification. Approximately 269 of this type were built. These purpose built types were being built and assembled by the Demag and Krauss-Maffei companies. An unspecified number of these had a reinforced roof [40mm]. This variation had a number of variations in the way it was placed into the ground.
Pantherturm1 - a complete steel box emplacement.
Pantherturm 2 - a concrete box emplacement.
Pantherturm 3 - a wooden box emplacement.
These details seem to vary between references slightly so I have just stuck with Tankpower.
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Image from Panther - Concord pub.
I chose to go with the first alternative, the improvised turret. Apparently there were 25 of these type of emplacements in Berlin alone! My Vignette started with the purchase of the old KIRIN resin model of a Berlin pantherturm. I took the turret and street pole only and rebuilt the ground work, cobblestone emplacement and steel plate myself along with the rest of the ground work.
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I replaced the resin barrel that was warped with a tamiya G and I was off and away.
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The figures are from two sources, the standing being a VP surrendered German with a Warriors head and the second, an injured Warriors German.
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VP FIGURE WITH THE WARRIORS HEAD.
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WARRIORS FIGURE WITH ANOTHER HEAD.
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