[WIP] Oberkommando West - Historical - Ardennes improvised ambush pattern
Hello guys, I'm workin on some rare Ardennes December 1944 pattern, here is the references:
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The colors seems to be:
1) Factory Base Coat - 8012 Dark Red Primer (or Rotbraun RAL 8012);
2) Disruptive Pattern 1 - RAL 7021 Schwarzgrau;
3) Disruptive Pattern 2 - RAL 7028 Dunkelgelb.
I couldnt find a lot of info on this, so it's seems what it's a sort of custom-modifed pattern. But the colors seems legit and I liked them a lot, so I decided to make it :-) After all, the skins suppose to be inspired by historical events, not necessary be copy of it.
So here is what I did so far:
Winter version:
Summer version:
I hope you will like it and hope I didnt messed up too much in the process :-)
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It's a very good WIP, keep on.
Historicaly when the factories had the correct paint supplies they would do a set camo pattern before the vehicle was dispatched. These patterns were subject to having the correct paint (exact color pigments varied upon which factory produced it and when) in stock and the current pattern ( which were subject to change). By 1944 the German war machine was stretched to the limit due to contant bombing of the German heartland by the US stratigic air command and British Bomber command.
This ment tanks often left the factories with bodge job paint jobs and even no paint at all other than red primer. If there was time to give it a coat of something on arrival at its Divisional unit then field camo may have been applied. There are hundreds of historical black and white photos showing tank units having a wide range of different paint jobs within the same zugs. Many of the colored references are only model makers and artists best reconstructions of what the believe the black and white images show. Think of it this way, if you had to paint 22 Panther tanks in your company would they all look the same. Many may be similar but none would be the same. Throw in lenght of vehicle service, damage and recovered parts from other donor tanks along with a new replacement vehicle and you get the picture. Then come to winter. They gave some lucky tank crews whitewash and some brushes and let them do what they felt would work best. Each tank would have been unique. If you look at many winter 1944 vehicle photos, many in heavy snow had no winter camo as some units never recieved paint in time for the offensive.
Different size of the dots on the same type of tank in the same time period. Somewhere they are bigger, somewhere - smaller. I guess tanks indeed very often left the factories without any dots at all, and crews just drow them by themself.
Flak Halftrack:
IR Halftrack:
Walking Stuka:
Kubelwagen:
Jagdpanzer:
Panther:
Thanks again for all your help guys, I really-really appreciate it :-)
Just a heads up in case you are not aware but your submission to the curated pathway in the Steam Workshop is not visible to the public. When I view your submission there is an error message that says: "This item is not visible to users. The author needs to accept the latest Steam Workshop Agreement."
Cheers,
Kyle
The page keeps saying: "Action required - You need to agree to the latest version of the Steam Workshop Agreement before your item can be fully published to the Steam Workshop".
Here's the screens:
Maybe you can help me with that somehow? i will be very grateful.
You mean something like that?
Been there. That link leeds to the page which says: "You have accepted... blah blah", like on the second screenshot in my previous post :-(
https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/workshoplegalagreement/?appid=440
At the bottom, hit "select both". You may have to hit it twice. If your payment info is already submitted, then you should be good to go.
Hope this helps.
Jezz, that steam fighting was harder than mode-creation itself :-)
Thanks again for all your support guys, I appreciate it sooo much