Great review, as always😊. I’ve been noticing that the Rye Field kits are quickly becoming the new “Tamiya” type kits...great plastic and pretty solid instructions. The price is more than competitive for what we get also. Great looking kits with superior detail👍

They have the remains of a 'schmallturm' turret on display at Bovington tank museum in UK. It is the only one left in existence. Beautiful looking kit and a great video. Thanks Andy! Hope we can look forward to the build video!

This kit looks great but those tracks kill me!🇨🇦

Andy you are cranking these videos out, love it!!! I am glad RFM and others are putting more and more Armor out !!! Great Preview Andy !!! And the goodies along with it!!! Top notch Andy!!!

Just a few miles north of my home grate video

It would be great to see you build this Andy.

I've got one in the post now - so excited. Thanks for the "heads up".

Yet another fantastic looking kit and i will be getting this one for sure keep the videos coming Andy Steve 🇬🇧

Schmalturm turret Panther with the comedy cannon, yes please!

Literally just went outside for a parcel from y'all inside 2as both subject's in video

I love the Panther F and really appreciated your review! Keep it up Andy!!!

Love that Panther F Andy

Wow! That is a must have kit!

The really long barrel will be the 75mm L/100. it was proposed but I remember reading there was no serious effort to produce it because it was felt it would be too problematic. There was also a Czech 5 round carousel auto loader tested, I think that was to be paired to a improved 75mm L/70 main gun designated 7.5cm KwK44/2

Great looking kit and upgrade set 👍

Thanks for sharing buddy, can't wait for this one to be built. Stay safe mate👍😊😉

Looks the business. Another thorough vid. Def gonna get one of these.

Just ordered it & the update set. Cool to see the Stg44 being used in the bow machine gun position instead of a mg34

Andy at several Panther Ausf F turret was built it was used as target practice by UK tanks at the Bovington firing range and another went to Aberdeen proving grounds in America

Just bought it. Now build it so I know how to build it right. Keep the videos coming and I'll keep watching.

this looks like top notch model .Thanks for review this one .I hope you will build it

Looks to be a bad ass kit! I just ordered one from you and cannot wait to get it!!!

I'm glad I waited to get the f this is a beautiful kit ! Cheap too! Can't wait!!

Love the Panther F!

Real nice kit review and unboxing, So much useful info. Cheers :)

Love Panther tanks.

Great kit and great vid Andy. 👍🏻

Great new video Andy, but german armour was also attacked by RAF Typhoons as well

I'm here to drool at the boxart.

Andy your the best!

You have been busy this weekend Andy,good vids vas always

Nice review Andy, looks like a great kit!!!!!!!!! 👍👍👍

Great inbox review buddy! Very nice kit 😍

This one looks really good! still need to try one of their model kits

昔のキットでは考えられないくらい贅沢な仕様ですね！ スライド金型が使われまくりで、技術の進歩に驚くばかり

Looks like a dandy kit - thanks for the review.

Supply in demand: i try to buy this tank the other day because of it had cool features like the tracks and photos etched parts under ,what you said $50 bucks. It was out so i bought the next step down. Not sure the others would have like the ones that i mentioned. And please try to remember that KZfaq does do slow info. I didnt get this was yesterday. So please! Buy more or statement details on the wen what your others tanks have. Or do the deal wear you can blow up on the box to read the fine words what the tank have. Thank you

Yes, you do glue outer edge , the RFM tiger I track is same , workable , and it is work but it works great!!!!

MUY BUEN KIT EXCELENTE.

Around 5 were used in Berlin battles with panther g turret but panther f hulls

Here in the UK, this kit costs just over £44, about $60US, the accessorie set you showed costs £28, that works out at $40US.

Look’s like a great model I’ll get one for shure those workable tracks are really good.I have build the Takom maus holly smoke it was something.

Question: did you ever determine whether the pins are press fit or need to be glued?

Good video!! The Patton Museum of Armor & Cavalry at Fort Knox, KY, used to have a Panther F chassis with Panther G turret on static display. Remember going to see it all the time while stationed at Fort Knox during the 1980s when in US Army. Think it was moved to Fort Benning, GA, when the Armor School was relocated there a bunch of years ago.

This wasn't a paper Panzer, several were built (but not totally assembled) and it was rumoured that at least 2 saw action in the last ditch defense of Berlin. There's a photo of the Panther production line somewhere with both F and G hulls being built concurrently. Also, there's a (very) beat up F turret at the Overloon Museum in The Netherlands.

Panther Fs actually entered production, but did not see combat in the full F configuration. There are pictures of them out there but only the hulls. If I remember correctly some F hulls saw combat with a G turret. Regardless, the Fs would be a miserable tank to be turret crew on. The standard turrets were cramped enough. The Fs would be almost impossible to crew and escape from when the tank got hit.

Mines already on the way 😂

ordered it while i watched the video

Already sold out on your online store. Also other sellers and EBay are asking a lot more for it. Who knew it would be such a hit.

What a great kit Andy! Will you build this kit?

The whole head very minor changes from the G version of the panther the biggest change was of course the smaller Turret and the longer more powerful 75 millimeter gun along with a couple other things it was more or less like a really upgraded Panther G

Wow, I love the directions--- way to make it easier so I'll check out their line. Under 50 bucks is also a selling point. I found one of my old kit boxes--- I paid 15 bucks for the Revell USS Forrestal and 12 bucks for the Tamiya Marder-- that definitely makes me old! I don't get the thinking the Germans had with this-- the Panther already had issues with the L/70 and no counterweight, so the plan was to put an even bigger weapon on, still with no counterweight? I'd love to see a kitbash Panther, with a loader's hatch on the roof and some kind of counterweight on the rear of the turret-- just for fun.

Andy - FYI the patreon link in the description doesn't work. It's curtailed to andyshobbyhea Keep up the great work with the vids. Stay safe!

The main differences from G to F are: -frontal hull roof (between glacis plate und turret ring) from 12mm to 25mm improved -new hatches for driver and radio operater. They now had a swivel mount to open sideways -ball mount redesigned to house a Sturmgewehr 44 instead of the MG34 which was no longer in production -mounts for the radio‘s where redesigned to make a field modification to a Befehlswagen (command vehicle) possible -every vehicle should have the mounts for IR nightvision for plug&play Installation -steel wheels as standart - somewhere I read about improved belly armour in the frontal area for improved mine protection, but I can‘t remember the source right now, so that‘s hypothetical! The Schmalturm (literally 'narrow turret') seems plausible to be placed on this slightly improved hull, US troops found a fair amount of readily welded turret shells. This completely redesigned turret had several advantages over the initial Panther turrets. The design was way easier to manufacture, the frontal part was narrower giving it a smaller target, the frontal armor thickness was increased from 80 to 120mm and it was still around 8 tons for the completed turret including interior, so no weight gained over the previous one. Also the range finder would have improved the tanks capabilities a lot. But I‘m not shure if this was possible to install in this turret. There was another proposal with a triangular shape on the roof like on a house to make room for the range finder without blocking the gun when depressing it. Overall pretty nice, but to little to late in my opinion. There are two picture of the same knocked out Panther in Berlin. Many say it is a F hull with a late G turret. I‘m no expert in distinguishing them, but if it was actually a F hull than it might be the only one to have seen combat.

I am building the Dragon Panther F and it’s a great kit. But the Ryefeild is a much better kit. Nice touch on the different main guns.

Andy, do you know why Rye field used the takom steel wheel sprue in their kit? I'm building this currently and thought it was odd.

Despite not having an interior, I require it immediately

Must have downed a pot of coffee! Lots of videos!!

Ryefeild Models ;) you may want to correct that Andy. About the kit; yes i want it, the tracks are easy, the detail is amazing. I have the Dragon and the Amusing Hobby Panther F's, but this one knocks it out of the park! (is that correct in American ;) )

The G hull had been refined to the point where it was about as simplified as it was going to get, so changes were mainly cosmetic, ie OVM rearranged or something like that. I'm suspecting the F was an interim design between the G and the E-50, which would had more advanced armor. However spaced armor was being experimented which in WW2 and the Panther F could have been developing in that direction.

I was just watching a video on this tank yesterday - the hull had a bigger removable panel around the hull crew hatches to make it easier to remove the transmission. There were certainly some hulls produced alongside the G, and some turrets (one is still at The Tank Museum), so it is possible a handful of this model actually were used.

I want one 😁

well this is definitely going on my shopping list also if im not mistaken a hull for this exists somewhere in a museum in america, its basically a panther hull with extra armor at the front/ sides, and a badly damaged panther f turret is at display at the bovington tank museum

When will you get some back in stock?

No one can convince me that I dont need this

Hi Andy, I don6need to see the whole review at this stage , as I know I you will build it to a high standard, so as a You tuber always says ' let's get started', hope you are keeping safe and well, best regards from a Kiwi living in Australia.

RFM could do a steel wheel G if wanted to.

I believe the most major change to the hull of the ausf. F was the armor thickness of the side plates below the sponsons. On older panthers, the area between the roadwheels and sponsons were vulnerable to incoming fire. Hence they introduced shurtzen to cover this area. On the ausf. F I believe they were trying to dispense with the need for the shurtzen. Which kind of puzzles me why the include the shurtzen to the updade kit. Who is to say? As far as I've read the F was never assembled into a completed vehicle prior to the war ending.

I wonder how this kit stands up to the Dragon version?

So, you get loads of spare parts but have to buy an upgrade kit for side skirts?

Just for info, the main hull difference was the hatches - they slid open rather than flipping open. And a number of these sliding hatch hulls (with G turrets) were in use during the last few months of the war. The ones that went in to use had rubber rimmed tyres, not the rimless ones - and these are available in the box.

You keep mentioning slide molding Andy but I have no idea what that is. I can look it up of course, if I can find it, but it might be a good idea to give a 10 second explanation of what slide molding is.

Sold out already....?

Anyone have trouble with front drive gears? Parts C and N mixed up? Can't make sense of what the instructions say. Help!!

„Paper Panzer“ 😉

better than dragon yes or no ? :D

Sold out.

What scale is the F-4?

actually a few F saw combat, with Ausf.G turret tho

Actually, there are a couple of photos of Panther II hulls w/ panther G turrent used in the last months of WWII.

Hi Andy do u ship any orders to Canada?

It didn't have MG34's ahead and MG42 coaxial and the German strum 44 assault rifle was the hull machine gun because the MG34 had been discontinued production-wise since it been replaced by the MG 42

schmalturm.....small turret in English,Gretings from Spain

And we still can't get a good M5A1. I know AFV Club had one, but it was apparently molded in 100% pure Un-obtainium.

Let's be clear the STG 44 was the only assault rifle to use that designation

Wow, another panther. 😴 Good video though! 👍

Actually there's a prototype panther ausf f

The "F" came out AFTER the "G" ?????

Some F-Hulls with G-Turrets fought in Berlin at the end of the war

I think a lot of these companies are running out of ideas for german armor. What are they going to do when every single german AFV described in the "Encyclopedia of German Tanks of World War Two - revised edition" has been made into a model?

First and i want to buy it

The F turret always looks out of scale to me.