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Overall the lines of it are definitely those of a late-war German tank. That's definitely a Panther hull. It can't be a Tiger II hull because it doesn't have the driver's hatch on the left side. It has a late war Pz IV's track skirts. The turret looks most like that of a late-war Pz IV, but is only the size of a Pz III's turret. Though the long gun—looks like it might be the 75mm L43 from a Mk IV, with the distinctive two-chamber muzzle brake—did not fit in such a small turret because its mounts and breech mechanism were so much bigger than those of the 37mm and 50mm guns the Mk III was designed around. There was a design study done in 1943 for a new version of the Pz IV that would have been called the Ausf H, with a hull that had an all-sloped glacis plate in front, but nothing was ever done beyond blueprints and maybe a plywood mockup or two, and the H designation went to a series production version of the IV that wasn't nearly so radical. The tank in the picture looks most like the hypothetical Mark IV Ausf H that was never built. Mark IVs little angled surfaces on the front of the turret below the gun mantlet on either side that this one lacks, but they aren't visible from all directions on all versions, being covered by spaced armor that was added from 1943 on. Or maybe the artist omitted that detail.

I wonder whether the artist might have looked at several different models and combined them into one drawing, a sort of fantasy Wehrmacht frankentank. The camo pattern painted on it is definitely late-war German, with the stenciled dots that only the elite SS units tended to use. It looks very very German, and could not possibly be anything else, but it's an amalgamation of features from a number of German vehicles, with details that don't quite match anything that existed in the real world.

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