Instructions show dark yellow base color w/olive green, chocolate brown camo. Didn’t late vehicles get the green as the base color? Would the Model Master 43-45 Panzer Green be a good alternative to the olivegrun?
If my memory serves Panther F was produced at or near the end of WWII,Late 1942 early 1943 the reichsfuror authorized the change from “dark grey” factory paint to “dark yellow” overall,camo was applied but the unit recieving the vehicle with no set pattern usually a red brown and dark green paste(like turtlewax) was used and it was thinned with everything from diesel fuel to water,however very late in the war some tanks rolled out with only a rusty dark red primer.Since modelling is hopefully open to inventoin and imaginatoin you are allowed to do what you think looks good. Hopes this helps Have Fun!
At the beginning of Feb. 1945, the base coat was changed to Olivgrun EAL 6003.(Dk OLive Green) An original color photo of a Tiger ausf B completed in March '45 shows Dk. Yellow applied in stripes and patches to make a camo pattern.Experimental vehicles were not issued the paint tins doled out to operational panzer units so I agree with armornut; you’re kinda in “artistic expression” territory. Here’s some shots of mine in base-coat green, with a winter camo scheme as if it might’ve looked in…1946!!! Have fun!!!
Thanks all, It’ll feel wierd not laying down the yellow first 
Should be interesting though, olive green w/dark yellow and red brown on top.
[#ditto] Yes, 1946 German armor is a little like their 1946 Luftwaffe. Artistic license abound.
I’d probably go with lead oxide primer with camo over the top, since that would seem most historically accurate, that is IF any made it into service and IF any did make it into fighting in Berlin…so in other words, I’d agree you can paint it however you like, as long as there is no purple involved[;)]
Historically accurate?
You’d better put the hull on an assembly line and the turret on a hard stand. I think the consensous is that anything goes for any depiction other than a prototype, which appears in the Jentz and Doyle reference in dark yellow. The F probably would have made it into the war, if the optics would have been delivered.
I find it a little funny that the coincidence (ghost image) range finder and manual ballistic computer developed by the Germans (for the Panther F) later appear on US tanks, you know, the “eyeballs” on the turret sides?.
Personally, I would go with the Olivgrun.
Steve