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oragus said:
Can you read those forums?
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Of course, that's how I was able to find it anyway
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Those Czech ones with the crosses on the turret, those from a movie or those actual Czech markings?
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Movie "Tank Brigade".
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They look like they are a "Soviet green" color or a greyish color? If not, do you know what the base color was? But need more than just "green". Many different colors of green...lol
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Dunno for sure but would hazard a guess at Soviet green. Tanks for the movie were taken from the reserve Panthers and to my knowledge only the marking was repainted so SovGreen would fit it IMHO.
By the way it seems the Panther's designation in Czechoslovakian service was T-42/75N (or T-42/75(N)); PzKpfw IV was T-40/75N without known distinguishing between variants (we possessed at one time or another many, from F1 to J, with J being the most frequent).
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For example, the Bulgarian ones are interesting, they look to have a large white star on the turret. Don't know what color the base coat of the vehicle is though.
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Hard to tell, the whole mess is quite ... well... messy, so far haven't found info on Panther in Bulgary, ie when did they enter service, when did they quit etc... The same for Romania.
For the wartime ones, I dare guess mix of SovGreen and original German paint, as (from what I've found there) they were handed over to Bulgarians by USSR...
OK, found a bit more, Bulgary received just 15 Panthers before the end of the war, after war (not sure when exactly) they were used (unclear if whole tanks or just turrets) as pillboxes on the border with Greece, they should still be there but hard to access.
Btw on second page of the discussion there's Panther from Saumur.