Just watching Battle Front: Battle of the Bulge and saw a rather interesting winter camo job on a Sherman- it was draped in a half dozen white sheets all over the hull and turret. I also found it interesting that the winter camo I see on models on these pages looks more realistic than the movies of the original tanks. Always amazes me when I see things in real life and think “if someone modelled that exactly, it wouldn’t look realistic at all” Sorry, but I had to tell someone. The wife just responded with a “that’s nice, dear”
That’s nice. [:D]
thanks, honey
realy, thats good
The germans had this type of camo too, Youd think they would get dirty or tear after awhile.
jason, at least your wife responded… mine would have rolled her eyes at me.
In a book about armor camouflage during wwii it showed pics of American and German tanks using sheets. It said sheets arent good camo because they do not break the outline of the tank (means it doesnt blend in?)
Battlefront? Never heard of that movie, have to go rent it now!
Battlefront is a program/ documenary
To me it looked like it ran through someones laundry hanging out to dry. Battlefront is a new program on the Discovery Military Channel (used to be the Wings channel)
No reason to say you’ re sorry, I know what it’s like. That’s what the forum is for,right? I know what you mean about images like that. I saw a picture of a M-7 so covered in mud and gear that if you tried to model it, no one would believe it.
One I saw recently was a Bradley at an airshow. The demarcation line between the rubber and the wheel looked like it was painted on by a 4 year old. I thought to myself “if I did that on a model, it would look like I didn’t know what I was doing”
I guess that’s where it’s sometimes hard,as modelers to decide on what’s accurate and what looks right.Plus,as in the case of that M-7,I would’nt want to cover up all my work.Guess it would work if I really screwed the build up!!
True!
When you wake up and find yourself surrounded by Germans in a rest area without any whitewash, run for the laundry and grab the white sheets. If you think about the sheets rippling with the wind, the shape of the tank would be always changing. Maybe look like tree branches swaying in the wind.
When I was in the Army I saw serious overspray on the rubber on road wheels, and touchup paint that did not match. Only saw a vehicle with a complete paint job when we painted all of the Dodge PowerWagons that were delivered to us to replace our Jeep ton and a quarter trucks, (M715?). A couple of months later all the scraps, scratches, dents and dings were just touched up.
Some units sprayed the camo pattern on and others used paint brushes. Just like some country in WWII, now which one am I trying to think of???