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Mr Boochie said:
I recall that famous Panthers on that tree-lined road in Silesia. Was that 102.PzBr? I need to dig up some references.
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This was the camo from the group in Silesia I modeled mine on. They were all different so crew applied stripes over red primer. There is a picture of mine totally destroyed somewhere by Breslau. I doubt many of these guys survived the next few days
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Space Ritual said:
This was the camo from the group in Silesia I modeled mine on. They were all different so crew applied stripes over red primer. There is a picture of mine totally destroyed somewhere by Breslau. I doubt many of these guys survived the next few days
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Found it! Panthers going to Kűstrin bridgehead, Feb 1945. Prolly elements of the I/24.PzReg. From PanzerTruppen 2, Thomas Jentz. Pg 223. Schiffer Military Publications. 1996

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Note: No zimmerit.
 
For those of you who are WW II aficionados, check out : RZM Imports Inc

In recent years, I've purchased quite a few books from this company. It's
one of the life's simple pleasures to be able to sit down and to delve into
WW II history books. There's a lot of reference books to do your research
on for your various hobbies. Also, there's plenty of German Armor books
that can help with your color schemes.
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Kelsey said:
For those of you who are WW II aficionados, check out : RZM Imports Inc

In recent years, I've purchased quite a few books from this company. It's
one of the life's simple pleasures to be able to sit down and to delve into
WW II history books. There's a lot of reference books to do your research
on for your various hobbies. Also, there's plenty of German Armor books
that can help with your color schemes.
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I love literature! I get a lot of aircraft stuff from Aviation Megastore.

https://www.aviationmegastore.com/en/cat/books-on-aviation-1.html
 
Slight gear shifting-

In my early teens I was into military aircraft.
Living 5 blocks from the USAF museum fed that a lot.
I used to pore over the "Jane's Guide To Military Aircraft" encyclopedias like they were comic books.

Fast forward to 1993, and I'm working doing building maintenance for an apartment complex.
The owner's sister comes over and her last name is Jane.
Turns out both of those ladies belonged to that family, and they are Canadian.
They were still connected to the air industry as both had been 20 plus year flight attendants and one's husband (not a Jane) designed airports among other things.
Sadly none of them had any good stories about the publishing end or military aircraft.
 
YY1 said:
Slight gear shifting-

In my early teens I was into military aircraft.
Living 5 blocks from the USAF museum fed that a lot.
I used to pore over the "Jane's Guide To Military Aircraft" encyclopedias like they were comic books.

Fast forward to 1993, and I'm working doing building maintenance for an apartment complex.
The owner's sister comes over and her last name is Jane.
Turns out both of those ladies belonged to that family, and they are Canadian.
They were still connected to the air industry as both had been 20 plus year flight attendants and one's husband (not a Jane) designed airports among other things.
Sadly none of them had any good stories about the publishing end or military aircraft.
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Small world for sure. Those are the Bibles of aircraft encyclopedias.

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YY1 said:
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Sadly none of them had any good stories about the publishing end or military aircraft.
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What kind of stories are you looking for?

30 years RCAF, 20 of that in SAR. Aircraft types: ch113/a Labrador (basically, H46 with SARCUP) and ch149 Cormorant (EH101, SAR variant), ch114, ch118 Iroquois, ch146 Griffon, etc, etc.

If you want to see an eye opening air museum, try making it to the RAF museum in London. Incredible assortment of wwii aircraft. Allied and german. I actually got to touch and sit in an ME262 and crawl all over several Junkers. The 262 was roped off, but no way I was getting that close to the worlds first jet fighter and not at least touch it. Guard tried to bum rush me out when he found me behind the ropes. Found out who I was and next thing I knew he was opening the canopy for me! V1’s, V2’s…you name the wwii stuff, they had one.

Duxford war museum in UK is also a good stop. Thats where they allowed me into the Lancaster and a B17 painted with “Memphis belle”. No idea of the nose art was real or because of the movie. Didn’t ask, didn’t care.

Started as a no hook private, retired Master Warrant Officer.

Stories I got, most of them gruesome…
 
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