Today I made a first try building up the turret with paper.
That´s about the size of it:

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Why paper and not plastic?

Now this is interesting. You're combining my two favorite hobbies, paper modeling and figures. I'm looking forward to see how this comes out.

btavis:
This is just a try because I had to admeasure photos of a Panther and comparing it with the YoungsMiniature- cupola.
Because of this, it is not very accurate but it´s a first impression for the later built up with plastic sheet, Magic Sculp and so on.

I have to wait until the book about the Panther tank is delivered to me. Then I can start with solid material.

redhorse:
What do you modelling with paper? I know there are tanks in 1:25 scale.

Joachim, cool stuff the paper mock up is a great idea for size and fabrication

Joachim, I do a lot of different subjects in paper. Mainly I do ships, but I've done some trains, a couple airplanes and a tank. I've even done a paper figure. I'm currently working on the 1/200th scale Japanese Aircraft carrier Zuikaku. The one tank so far is a pre-war Polish amphibious tank. If you're interested, there's a build thread here:

http://www.papermodelers.com/forum/armory/1799-pzinz-130-amphibious-tank-answer-1-25-a.html

Gordy, thanks for your comment!

James, unfortunately it is not possible to see images without having to be registered. Could you show some pictures here?

Let's see if I can upload here...

Keep in mind with these pics, there a paper modelers who are much much better than I am, but it does give you an idea. This model has around 1,350 parts in it, but the Panther from Halinski Publishing probably has around 5,000 or so.

That's cool ! I'm impressed these are paper

Wow, you can not see that they are made of paper.
But how do you represent deep? Fold and layer construction?

That's exactly how you do it!