I am makeing a winter scene with a King Tiger in it. I was woundering wat colors I should use to weather it. I am placeing it in a late war (Ardenees Forest) likely mispelled.
JFP,
After you paint the base coat (probably the three color German camo) let this dry for a few days. Then lightly airbrush on some Tamiya XF-2 Flat White but don’t cover the base colors completely. Let them show through slightly. Let this dry for a few hours and then using Tamiya Thinner X-20A and a flat bristle brush (#5 or 6) brush the thinner from top to bottom on the tank removing the white so the base coat shows through. Go slowly removing a little at a time. After this do a cheap paint thinner wash a few times then a blue-black oil paint wash. Follow up with a pin wash on the sides of the tank using Vallejo acrylic paints number 941 Burnt Umber and 862 Black Gray. Should do the trick.
TH
You can do as thuber1967 says and it will look good. But if you want historical accuracy though well thats another matter. So far I have only found reference for one King Tiger in winter white wash, and I know that almost if not all of the s.SS.Pz.Abt 501’s King Tigers that were used in the Ardennes were painted in the ambush camo patern.
But as I said there is atleast one King Tiger that had whitewash, it was a King Tiger with the so called “Porsche” turret from s.Pz.Abt 503, it had the nickname “Anneliese” written on both sides of the gun mantlet.
Here is an artist impression, its not entirly correct but its ok.
Here is another King Tiger on the western front, at first I thought it had whitewash but on closer inspection it is clear that it has the ambush camo, but it is covered in a lot of snow.
