VLOG: Tank War Fast Paint Project Part 3
October 9, 2017 by johnlyons
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Wow! I just love how much thought goes into this project 🙂
I know next to nothing about ww2 or tanks, so I can only choose from what I thought caught my eye and/or really liked. The third you showed in the book (page 22) and the last (page 58) are definitely my favorites. But I have no slid aguments to base those choices on. I just liked them.
that’s the most important reason to pick them 🙂
I was hopping you’d go full octopus camo on them @johnlyons
I’m a huge fan of the ambush camo, here’s a think though if you fancy giving it a try I have disc camo stencils…. just throwing it out there.
Also I think you should paint one of them like the Hungarian forest camo scheme, I think they have it on a StuG in the book, might be a P IV though, it’s been a while
I’d like to reserve the more exotic schemes for maybe a more special piece 😉
@johnlyons I hear that Pink tanks are all the rage these days…lol
yeah, “Hello Kitty” themed tanks … now that would be awesome. 😉
besides … Pink Panthers. That’s got to be done.
I know a certain lady in my life has already done that, for that exact reason 🙂
Because all of your tanks are having Zimmerit on them it’s obvious that they were build before Sept. ’44.
Which meens that they should have the “Hinterhalt” camo scheme which was applied at the factories. So your colours of choice should be “Dunkelgelb” (RAL 7028) as base colour, “Olivgrün” (RAL 6003) and “Schokolade” (RAL 8017) for the camo itself.
Minor changes which were added at the front could be small “Dunkelgelb” dots inside the other colours.
http://www.panzerbaer.de/colours/a_relaunch/wh_tarn-c.htm <– the source I'm using (in German)
You are entirely correct in this 🙂 I am, however, going to run with a little artistic lisence on the Tiger II. My basis for it is simply:
it will look cool and unique, and with me wanting to do late war, theres a fair chance that a surviving KT with zimmeritt could have been repainted upon being brought in to a new regiment. Not saying this was done for sure, but it is a feasible thought.
Ich totally agree. I just wanted to show that there were standadized patterns at this point. Earlier and later there were more often frontline invented patterns.
But you never go wrong when it looks cool 😉
@johnlyons I have another few book sources, if you want I can bounce down tomorrow and drop them in
more reference can’t hurt
There is so many to camo patterns to choose from, I liked the half track you showed, I think it was page 43…. But its a hard to pick the right one.
How true to life are you going ? For example , figuring out from zim pattern and tank equipment positions which factory built the tank ( Panther ) , then paint it in the corresponding colors for the time frame and unit / theater it served in . But that’s not always fun , for example only one so called Octopus pattern Tiger II found near Berlin IRC and it had no zim . But its a cool pattern and I would like a couple of my late war Tigers painted that way , I already got a Pzr II… Read more »
the book actually lists where every camo pattern comes from, so it’s very acturate for the specific theatres and tanks. It does however have paper panzers at the rear which have other camo schemes on them. All ones that were used but obviously in this instance never applied in real life
With German schemes I have a rule of “if you use dark yellow, green and brown then there isn’t really a wrong answer beyond that”
I’m going to be interested no matter what paint schemes you go for, but for purely selfish reasons, I’d love to see you do a “typical” (I know, there’s no such thing) 3 colour scheme, simply because it’s something I’m about to tackle with an airbrush for the first time – and a video demonstration I could follow along with would help my confidence greatly!
stay tuned 🙂
Have you seen the ‘Panzer Colours’ trilogy of books? Part one has a good overview of the development of the three colour scheme. It discusses everything from the carefully sprayed vertical stripes seen on Konigstigers in Normandy to random splodges applied with brooms in Russia. You’re right with the comment about the three colours, paint it dunklegelb then green and brown however takes your fancy, unless you are reproducing a specific vehicle from photos, it would be difficult to prove you wrong. For a gaming piece, do what looks cool.
I bet you could confuse @warzan if you switched the paint schemes and this them in a kind of ersatz look. Drab Tigers and Dunkel Shermans.
Paint one of the Panthers up as ‘Cuckoo’, captured by the Guards Armoured or put Balkan crosses on a Firefly as captured and used by the Germans.
I have a Panther at home I painted as Cuckoo 🙂 I’ll throw it under camera for you.
all the camo patterns look great are you going for one or a mix with the army’s john.
Im basing this “tank army” on the idea of them being a Kampgruppe formed form several other units. And the best way to show that is have each tank type painted differently. Which I will do and explain in more detail 🙂
nice, the SS colour patterns would look great in the mix.?
Take a look at this reference.
Tanks of World War II
by Chris Ellis. Tons of great color images for each tank. Lots of tanks in it.
http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/US/M4_Sherman.php
i always look here for referrence.
Red primer is a great choice. I did a FoW army for a friend with half dunkelgelb half red oxide.
It’s interesting to add in chalk markings from the factory to certain armour plates, to really give that late late war feel. Same goes with slogans like ‘Berlin bleibt Deutsch’, ‘Bis zum Ende!’ etc 🙂 Also add in lots of stowage on both factions, as you know, it really makes the vehicle pop on the table! ^^ Looking forward to the next bit!
Now back to Cadians and FoW DaK for me :p