Today I bought the orange box kit and it is my first 1/35 kit and is my first time building a german tank. I went to get the paint and got the wrong color. I got the color the germans used in Africa. Did the stug III have time in Africa? Another thing is this is also my first time with Magic Tracks. What is the best way to do these?
Any help appreciated.
Thanks
I can’t really help with the paint/color specifics…as for the ‘magic tracks’ this link should help: http://www.armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=1737
The color you need is Dark Yellow. I found that Tamiya XF-60 is the perfect shade. The Stug III may have had some small time in Africa, at least as far as I’ve seen (from various paint schemes I found in a Stug III I bought some time ago.) They did, however serve in Greece, wearing your favorite Africa paint scheme.
Best bet, paint it however you want–the Germans went crazy with paint schemes during the war.
Thanks guys. I’ll use that link to help me with the tracks. For the paint scheme I am going to stick with the color I already have.
O wouldn’t do that–at least mix in a lot of White and Gray to bring it closer to spec with Dunklegelb; Afrika Yellow is rally a much richer color than Dunklegelb.
Thanks for the suggestion. What kind of gray should I use? I’m thinking light gray.
The question of accuracy and paint schemes is always an interesting one so let me offer a little bit more information about the III-F and it’s deployment. The F was the first “long gun” StuG III and as such it was produced in rather limited numbers before the G was introduced. 120 were produced as straight Fs with the remainder of 246 as F/8 for a total of 366 and the entire production took place March to Sept 1942. None of these saw service in Africa although a very few short-gun StuG C/Ds and Es did which is probably where the book reference pics mentioned come from.
Dunkelgelb wasn’t introduced as a paint scheme until Feb '43 so it’s possible some could’ve been repainted in the field if they were still in active service at that time…but they would be the rare exception considering how few were produced.
As far as paint schemes go, the most commonly seen would’ve been the straight panzer gray. I’m not aware of any serving in Greece although it’s possible with a training unit perhaps as the Greece campaign was long over by the time they were in production. Virtually all of these would’ve been assigned to the Russian Front as they were explicitly up-gunned to deal with the T-34 threat and long of penetration capability with the short 7.5cm gun.
HTH!