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LEGO Panther tank!

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Yay! I finally had time to get this uploaded to my fileserver:
TT's LEGO Panther, as promised.
admittedly, it's my first foray into web design, and I plan to sort out the page more, soon. Yes, there will be more pictures, like of the actual tank. Enjoy!
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Looks good TT Cant wait to see the tank itself are you going to do any of the airplanes of WWII would love to see a super fortress
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Well, I just updated it with a few lower-res pics of the tank... just go there and hit refresh.

I'd love to do aircraft, especially a Superfortress, but there is no design guidance for such an undertaking. I've seen instructions for a few warbirds, like a P-38 Lightning... but the instruction CD alone was $50!!! My budget for this tank, start to finish, parts and all... was $60.
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Nicely done TT, bring on the tank!!
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Cool tank! Would have loved to see a Transformer version of this tank!
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Excellently done TT!! That tank is awesome!
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I want a LEGO version of the TurboKat from Swat Kats.

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I can tell ya the cockpit would be the cockpit glass out of the OLD naboo starfighter kit, but i'm not too familiar with LEGO aircraft design.
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I've made a makeshift one that had 2 of those kind of glass, but i had to make it weird. kinda like a drawbridge but backwards.
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Wweee, lego men! Oohh, that Jurgens is a pretty one. :wink:

Fun stuff, TT.
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Admittedly, that's a bit of an inside joke.
There's this great game, called Company of Heroes, with hilarious voice acting quotes. Long story short, one of the most famous and frequent quotes is telling your German grenadiers to use their medkits, to which they reply
"Jürgens... YOU'RE the pretty one, YOU can be our nurse..." in a very silly tone of voice. Jürgens soon found his way into our D&D WWII campaign as a high-level cleric and tank driver to General Hermann Leudtke, and eventually to the crew of panther 539.
"Hey [Inferno], I need one more german name for my crew here. Any ideas?"
'JüRGENS! He's the pretty one! He can be their nurse!"
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It's been a whuile since I played COH. Excellent lego tank though.
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Very creative, and cool looking tank. TT's got skillz
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great job TT what else you got planed
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I'm working on a jagdpanther mod for it right now. The jagdpanther removes the turret and has a fixed-position box on top to house a bigger anti-tank gun.
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looks great i made somethings myself i love legos i made a warthog from halo i like it but i need to work on the shocks to make them nicer and i couldnt find color matching bricks
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www.bricklink.com is my source for all the dark gray parts i needed. I bought from several sellers to get everything i needed, and they were all fair and good businesspeople. Check it out!
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ya i have been there never bought from them though i have alot of parts i just need to take old things apart
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It's nice for finding that one damn piece you need to finish a model you bought in a store.

Right now, I'm working on a quick swap-over Jagdpanther conversion. I'm doing it in red for now, til i get the kinks hammered out, them i'll order some dark gray to do it with. It's pretty simple switchover, the only new assemblies are a shorter front glacis, the bigger gun mount (i'm using the original barrel, even though the real tank would change from a 75mm to 88mm), and the hull top. i'll post some pics tomorrow. That, and i'm meaning to post some nice, higher-res pics of the panther as it is!
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hey tt i got a new set today its an indiana jones set with a two nazi vechicles i know they are not based on one real car but they look good and come with nazi soldiers ill post a pic if u want
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