![]() ![]() I am slowly restoring this tank to fully working condition and have managed to get the engine running after the best side of 70 years sunk in mud at the bottom of a river. About 6 years ago I was luchy enough to find a very late war Panzer V Panther 'G' tank in a river in East Germany while on holiday and swimming in a river. I have varified these chipsets as being genuine. ![]() shade differences also occur when different mediums are used to thing the seed colour prior to application. I have found that there are more colours in these chipsets than people realise and it may be that colour variants were used by different factories. ![]() This means that this system is a non starter as far as period colour shading matching goes as the original shades used are no longer in that system, although alternate shades for the RAL colour are there, they are incorrect as far as modellers are concerned. The RAL system underwent a complete overhaul and any colours and shades used by the military services were removed or replaced. What you have to understand is that at the end of the way Germany underwent a quite comprehensive De-Nazifying process and lots of documentation was destroyed or replaced. Colours were then scanned into a PC and further matched using Photoshop and the PANTONE and MUNSELL colour systems to verify shade matches. My testing was done my painting squares of colour onto thick white card and then letting them dry for a full 24 hours before matching in natural daylight. I do like Vallejo, it is a good strong pigmented paint and will go a long way with not much! but the truth is that they do have a very wide range of colours and shades and despite the names on the bottles I am amazed by just how much these colours matched the chip sets. I realise that some out there will ridicule me and say that I am plugging Vallejo. 99.9% are 100% shade matches to the Vallejo Model Color range and the odd one I have been able to get so close it really doesn't matter! ![]() I am very lucky to be able to study and shade match these chipsets. These chipsets had not seen the light of day in a very long time and are unfaded. A complete hand annotated paint chip set for Wehmacht, Kreigsmarine and Luftwaffe lying undisturbed in a box. While recently doing some research in Germany on the S-100 class patrol boat I came across a total goldmine in a dusty archive. A Factory applied job would be much neater, demarkation lines sharper and colours more evenly applied to the aircraft. A field painted subject done by the ground crew would take in alot of operational charactistics such as environment, available paint and pilots wishes. I am not going to go into the schemes used (splinter patterns, blotches etc, but just rather stick to the colours used.Īs we know, the colours used changed greatly during the war as various factors caused rethinks and lots of field applied colours due to supply shortages etc This does infact mean that the modeller doing a late war Luftwaffe subject does have a lot more leeway in shades etc that an early war / Battle of Britain subject.ĭoes this mean you can just slap on any colour you want and you can get away with it? No not really. I am sure that this post will kick over a hornets nest over the colours used by the Luftwaffe during WW2. I am more a lurker than a poster, but I will help the folks here when I can, as you chaps help me when you can. ![]()
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