For the 1/16 Flakpanzer Gepard Fans

[PsychoAtom]

Great news for folks wanting to restore that Gepard with the missing or broken parts ...

Tamiya 1/16 Flakpanzer Gepard (Static)

[1Zook]

Sweet, as that would be me!

My Flakpanzer survived a trip from the UK to Australia (built) in a suitcase carried by a then 13yo, although could do with a touch up here and there!

Thanks for letting us know.

Paul

[stu22]

Now they just have to re-release full option versions of the Gepard and Leopard 1.

[Panther F]

Too bad those weren't ever really Full Option tanks. I guess the Gepard can always stay a static tank for getting the correct sounds and gear to make that thing work right will be a chore.

I still gotta have one and I'm thinkin' the newer Leo electronics would work in the Leo I.

- Jeff

[pininfarina]

1/16 Big Tank Series No.8

Flakpanzer Gepard (Display Model)

Item No：36208　

[Neo Tamiya]

Great static...the technology they had back then was astonishing, these must have been terrifying to the allies...most were a sitting duck without real intelligence.

[Steamysteam]

Great static...the technology they had back then was astonishing, these must have been terrifying to the allies...most were a sitting duck without real intelligence.

Sorry Neo Tamiya but this tank post dates WW2 by a long way.

[Neo Tamiya]

Sorry Neo Tamiya but this tank post dates WW2 by a long way.

Heh he...that shows how much i know about Tanks!!...

[Panther F]

I would even settle for the way the R/C operations did originally, when it was first released. I doubt this would fit into any current IR battle scenarios and I know the old electronics do not support the Tamiya battle system but after seeing many videos of the model (and the real thing) on you tube, who cares!

- Jeff

[MadInventor]

It would be quite feasable to fit the top shell and turret onto a modern 1/16 leapord hull, the only problem is no machine gun sound for the cannons, and having the main gun sound instead. If you weren't too picky about the sound, you could a WWII tank MFU for the machine gun sound, put a machine gun flash unit in each cannon barrel. The only tricky bit would be fitting the gun elevation mechanism. Saw a full RC version of this go for £375 on ebay very recently, so perhaps this is a precursor to a re-release / FO version ? Possible T dipping their toe in the market to see if there is enough interest to warrant a FO model ? Given the newer leapord model has sound, etc already fitted, it would't take a genius at T to modify it to a FO flakpanzer.

[stu22]

It would be quite feasable to fit the top shell and turret onto a modern 1/16 leapord hull...

Seeing your work on the super heavy King Tiger, I would be fully confident you could pull off the conversion

However, the Leopard 2 hull is bigger than the Leopard 1, in every dimension, on which the Gepard is based, and the RC Leopard 1 is not in production. Hopefully Tamiya will decide to release fully optioned RC versions of the Leopard 1 and Gepard in the near future.