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What is a Coelian Panther?
Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 29, 2003 1:30 PM
I was pretty heavy into German armor at one time and thought I knew all the variants and experimentals, but I've never heard of this. I saw it mentioned in one of the forums.Can somebody explain?
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Posted by mark956 on Wednesday, October 29, 2003 1:45 PM
Coelian was an anti-aircraft tank. I don't think it was put in production.
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Posted by styrene on Wednesday, October 29, 2003 2:12 PM
Breezely,
Check out the following link: http://millerkf.tripod.com/main_Model_page.htm and look for the image of the Panther with the dual AA guns sticking out of a strange looking turret.

As I understand it, the Germans experimented with this design at the close of WWII. Not sure if any actually saw action. They supposedly pulled the older Panther A's out of the field and equipped them with the experimental turret. It's a great conversion. I have the Accurate Armor turret/conversion set, and it looks quite good. The barrels are metal, and everything else is resin (kind of a puke green resin). I have the Tamiya Panther G, but looks like I'm going to have to locate an A somewhere to be able to do the conversion properly---that is, if what I heard originally is correct.

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 29, 2003 3:04 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by styrene
(kind of a puke green resin).


My understanding is that this stuff was a resin made in the UK in WWII for some military purpose, and huge loads of it remained when the war was over. I don't know the details, but apparently in order to get rid of this stuff, the government prohibited import or production of other kinds of resin. It's some kind of story like that -- as I said, I may have the details wrong. That's why, to this day, English resin items are often that malodorous, poor-quality greenish resin.

That said, I bought the Accurate Armour Pz I a few months ago, my first purchase of an all-resin vehicle kit (I have a few all-resin artillery pieces) and it is cleanly cast in a lovely vanilla resin that doesn't hardly stink at all! Tongue [:P]
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 29, 2003 3:52 PM
wasnt the Corelian panther used in Star Wars with princess leah on it?Sign - Oops [#oops]
dragon had a model out of it a while ago
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Posted by tigerman on Wednesday, October 29, 2003 5:16 PM
The Coelian was to be armed with twin 3.7cm guns with talk of 5.5 cm guns being added later. Of course, neither happened.

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 29, 2003 8:34 PM
Thank you all. Learn something new every day.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 29, 2003 8:41 PM
there was a panther that had four 20mms in a turret like a panther
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Posted by ozzman on Sunday, April 10, 2011 6:48 PM

It was a prototype of an antiaircraft tank with a panther hull.

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Posted by HeavyArty on Sunday, April 10, 2011 7:19 PM

Yes, that is what we all said above in 2003 when the question was originally asked and answered. 

What is the point in rehashing an almost 8 year old post that was answered almost 8 years ago? 

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Posted by Scorpiomikey on Sunday, April 10, 2011 7:25 PM

Im more concerned with the fact that somehow i managed to post an answer to something i know nothing about 7 YEARS BEFORE I JOINED THE FORUMS!!!!!!!!

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Posted by Phil_H on Sunday, April 10, 2011 7:32 PM

Scorpiomikey

Im more concerned with the fact that somehow i managed to post an answer to something i know nothing about 7 YEARS BEFORE I JOINED THE FORUMS!!!!!!!!

I suspect that there's something off with the dates on this thread and possibly the forum indexing. When I looked earlier, the post that Mikey is referring to, starting with  "Design work on the "Coelian Panther""  appeared to be written by me... (also dated before I joined the forum).

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Posted by Scorpiomikey on Sunday, April 10, 2011 7:34 PM

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Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Sunday, April 10, 2011 7:54 PM

Phil_H

 

 Scorpiomikey:

 

Im more concerned with the fact that somehow i managed to post an answer to something i know nothing about 7 YEARS BEFORE I JOINED THE FORUMS!!!!!!!!

 

 

I suspect that there's something off with the dates on this thread and possibly the forum indexing. When I looked earlier, the post that Mikey is referring to, starting with  "Design work on the "Coelian Panther""  appeared to be written by me... (also dated before I joined the forum).

LOL...

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Posted by TD4438 on Sunday, April 10, 2011 8:02 PM

Scorpiomikey

Im more concerned with the fact that somehow i managed to post an answer to something i know nothing about 7 YEARS BEFORE I JOINED THE FORUMS!!!!!!!!

Yup!I agree.In 2003 I hadn't even heard of the Coelian.I certainly don't remember ever leaving such a knowledgable post about it!

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Posted by Scorpiomikey on Sunday, April 10, 2011 8:07 PM

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Posted by MAJ Mike on Sunday, April 10, 2011 8:13 PM

Scorpiomikey

Im more concerned with the fact that somehow i managed to post an answer to something i know nothing about 7 YEARS BEFORE I JOINED THE FORUMS!!!!!!!!

Yup!  Me, too.  Make that 8 years for me.  Indifferent

I blame Manny.  Obviously, some of those experiments before the end of the (WWII, the Big One) were more successful than we thought.  Propeller

 

 

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Posted by daddy1 on Sunday, April 10, 2011 9:27 PM

Scorpiomikey

Im more concerned with the fact that somehow i managed to post an answer to something i know nothing about 7 YEARS BEFORE I JOINED THE FORUMS!!!!!!!!

Ditto

You've got my "early" posting beat by a couple years. I didn't even own a digital camera in 03, much less a computer. Huh? ConfusedWhistling

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Posted by Bgrigg on Sunday, April 10, 2011 9:36 PM

MAJ Mike

 

 Scorpiomikey:

 

Im more concerned with the fact that somehow i managed to post an answer to something i know nothing about 7 YEARS BEFORE I JOINED THE FORUMS!!!!!!!!

 

 

Yup!  Me, too.  Make that 8 years for me.  Indifferent

I blame Manny.  Obviously, some of those experiments before the end of the (WWII, the Big One) were more successful than we thought.  Propeller

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Posted by MAJ Mike on Sunday, April 10, 2011 10:02 PM

Bgrigg

 MAJ Mike:

 

 Scorpiomikey:

 

Im more concerned with the fact that somehow i managed to post an answer to something i know nothing about 7 YEARS BEFORE I JOINED THE FORUMS!!!!!!!!

 

 

Yup!  Me, too.  Make that 8 years for me.  Indifferent

I blame Manny.  Obviously, some of those experiments before the end of the (WWII, the Big One) were more successful than we thought.  Propeller

 

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Posted by The Navigator on Sunday, April 10, 2011 10:16 PM

Same here!! Obviously something is up with the time/space continuum.

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Posted by Njal Thorgeirsson on Sunday, April 10, 2011 10:24 PM

TD4438

Yup!I agree.In 2003 I hadn't even heard of the Coelian.I certainly don't remember ever leaving such a knowledgable post about it!

Haha likewise! Heck I haden't ever even built an armor model by that time... yup i was only 10.

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Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Sunday, April 10, 2011 10:27 PM

Njal Thorgeirsson

 

 TD4438:

 

Yup!I agree.In 2003 I hadn't even heard of the Coelian.I certainly don't remember ever leaving such a knowledgable post about it!

 

 

Haha likewise! Heck I haden't ever even built an armor model by that time... yup i was only 10.

maybe you were just precocious  ...

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Posted by Bish on Monday, April 11, 2011 7:31 AM

I had heard of the Coelian back then as i already had the Dragon kit. But i really don't recall making that post. I think i was a member then but hardly visited. Very odd.

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Posted by p38jl on Monday, April 11, 2011 10:57 AM

hey.. that reply on the first page aint mine... lol. hummmm.. interesting...

 

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Posted by MKelley on Monday, April 11, 2011 11:00 AM

This thread shows me answering the question. How the heck did I do that! Wonder what is going on here. I know next to nothing about German armour. That is compared to some of the other people here. This bothers me a little.  

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Posted by SuppressionFire on Monday, April 11, 2011 11:27 AM

Yes my reply is dated 2007.

I cannot recall this thread or providing the obvious Google answer, its my style to reply from memory without aid of researching the 'net.

'Great Scale Modeling' had a picture of said Flak Panther in one issue a few years back & I wonder if my reply quotes the text from that?

 

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Posted by buff on Monday, April 11, 2011 11:59 AM

It got me too.  I answered a couple of months before I joined.  

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Posted by telsono on Monday, April 11, 2011 12:36 PM

Mine as well, I didn't join till 2006 and it has me posting during 10/29/2003.

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Posted by Gamera on Monday, April 11, 2011 12:46 PM

Dang, not only is my post years before I joined the forum but it's far too concise, well-reasoned, and intelligent than anything I write!

Perhaps it was my evil twin Hamera????? Devil

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