Sorry for the late reply about the reference books,I have a series of e-books plus many pictures from online searches. My Henschel Does have at least 6 colors,but are all based on the three basic colors, XF-60 Dark Yellow(Dunkelgelb) XF-61 Dark Green (Dunkelgrun) and XF-64 Red Brown (Rotbraun) . But then I looked at the pictures of the crews painting their tanks,generally three guys,three colors and some over spray makes three new colors.
Also my King Tiger is meant to be very late war,being one company of 10 King Tiger used by Grossdeutschland Division, so I took some liberties,some area's are sprayed on while many are the result of a paint brush and a q-tip. Or one guy with a brush and one guy with a MOP.
The colors should blend in well to the country side tree lines,and many of the Western German country side in a winter/early spring has green in the Pines and evergreens and the browns of the oak and birch tree's. But it is different,the color scheme with the instructions does have a similar paint scheme. Also my first time painting using Tamiya colors, Acrylic paint instead of the Enamel Master Modeller paints from Testors I have used in the past.
I have not weathered the tank very much,used DULL COAT instead of the floor polish/Varnish stages and it has grown on me some.I did go back and coated the tank with varnish applied by brush,just a light coat. I have recently continued the build,installing the Axle's,the gearboxes,inner metal fenders,the detail parts are started.This was a 75%completed tank when I purchased it and one other,I THEN PURCHASED some sprue's as the tools were painted and the detailing was different than the way I use enamel,and chalk pastels to color the cables and tool handles, I today added the tools that came with it,plus test fitted the metal tool set Dietrich set me and the metal vent covers. So guy's take a look,it is far from finished and I AM MOST LIKELY going to change the cables to the other set I have from Jason's store.
- Bare hull
- Grill installation Nice Schumo set,fits very well.
Still alot of work to do,I have purchased metal cable in 10ft pieces in 5 sizes,very inexpensive at the local hardware store,cable ends that are correct to scale is another story,I cut my Tiger cable ends off and very carefully drilled them for the metal cables it worked well using heat shrink to add to the clamp section for a nice smooth look. But the King Tigers mount differently but I will figure something out,.just don't like the silver look of these,but they are painted well,with nice detailing of the clamps.
FEEDBACK is most welcome positive or negative tell me what you guys like and don't like it is my first Henschel KT.