Anyone with this book look at Tigers number F05 and F13 on Pages 137 and 138 of Tiger I on the Western Front. They served in the Kompanie Fehrman and there is an artist rendition of them in a greenish color. I’m wondering what color that actually is, so anyone with the book who can look and tell me, that would be great.
I have that book but i’m color blind 
maybe i could ask a friend
I can tell you in a few days. I just won one over the weekend on E-Bay and it should be here soon!! I’m sure someone else has it though.
it looks light green, too dark for the camo green, but i’m not sure. I want to model my Tiger in the GB after one of those.
it was painted normal cammo with a light ocer spray of green
theres photos of it in the Tankpower books
that’s funny… the black and whites don’t show any camo scheme… just looks solid.
ahh another Tiger color mystery. wbill76 did his Tiger in a solid olive color. Now apparently, his particular tank was not supposed to be that color, but he did a nice job on it. I believe he thought his tank was one of the pea-green tanks from North Africa. Look back through the tiger thread for his pics. My tank apparenly has a weird green too. I am going to experiment with Tamiya Field gray with mine> For what mine might have looked like look at the second post down here:
http://www.finescale.com/fsm/community/forum/topic.asp?page=-1&TOPIC_ID=33349&REPLY_ID=332909#332909
the one i referenced served in sicily…
Could it be possible it was a North African Tank pulled back when Rommel pulled out of North Africa and it retained it’s paint job? Maybe a question for the real experts
Check out the first color plate here. Is it dunkelgelb and a brown, sandgelb and a brown?? Sort of looks like it has a greenish tint to it?
http://www.chsk.com/steppenwolf/tiger1_in_action_3.htm
yeah, but the 6 tigers from Fehrman were incorperated into 508 during Sicily so they have different color schemes… i can’t see cammo in these pics, going to look for more
Unfortunately, I don’t have that book, so I can’t tell you the color(s). Just pouring gas on the fire[;)]
ive got the black and white photos of F13 from three different sides of this tank, where the rear bid was there is the normal camo scheme
plus its in alot of books
again, I haven’t seen any pictures of this tank but timing may be important as well. It is possible that the tank was repainted a some point, possibly a couple times.
the timing? its from 1945
long after Africa and its from a training unit
thanks capn…Seems that the F05 and F13 were in a pea-green color. No cammo is obvious in the black and whites. I’m going to probably model the F05. I am attempting to scan the color pic and put it up here shortly.
lemme try this…
heres a colour plate ive got
there is also the history of it in the book
its from the AJ.Press Tankpower book. Tiger vol 3 by Tadeusz Melleman
its not a great scan becouse i used my camera
thanks captain… that certainly helps a lot…
Just to add in T. Mellemans’ Tankpower Tiger Vol 3 there is a side on colour drawing of F13. The accompanying test reads:
“An early series Tiger Aust. H1 (no zimmermit, headlights on top of the hull, fording snorkel attachments, early turret modifications, Feifel air filter brackets on rear of engine compartment wall), retrofitted with all-steel road-wheels. This vehicle commanded by Feldwebel (SSgt.) Beloff, operated between Fallingbostel and Miden in central Germany as part of the ad hoc tank unit called Tiger-Gruppe Fermann, formed in the spring of 1945. The situation at the front, and the immediate danger of capture by the Soviets, prompted the crew commander to blow up his faithful mount near Achum on April 11 and flee waetwards to surrender to the Western Allies. To unify the external apperance of the unit’s tanks, cobbled together from what was left at the Tiger units’ shakedown centre in Fallingbostel, they were painted overall in a non-standard light slate gray, with brown and green patches of their older camouflage schemes showing through”
Hope this helps
Regards
John