I'm looking for photos of a Grey Puma SdKfz 234/2

[Snowwolflair]

I have decided to paint my Sdkfz 234/2 in their early grey camouflage. There were few in this scheme and even fewer photos. Can anyone help.

thanks

[Tiger6]

Per wikipedia the production run was as follows: "101 built between September 1943 and September 1944". Panzer Grey fell out of use before that time period, so you won't find a picture of one in grey.

[Snowwolflair]

As I understand it there were up to ten units both pre-production and first built units that were painted grey, hence the scarcity of photos.

I am hoping for photos from the trials a bit like the prototype photos of the Sturmtiger which was built on an early Tiger chassis, were as the production run was on the late chassis.

[lmcq11]

According to the Nuts&Bolts volume 40 on the SD.Kfz.234, the first photos of the 234/1 test vehicle illustrate a two tone camo of probably 2/3 brown RAL 8020 and 1/3 grey RAL 7027. The first serial vehicles had a base of Dark Yellow RAL 7028. The book also displays pictures of a 234/3 in grey at Bovington, with the comment “painted in extremely poor paint scheme” attached to it.

No grey 234/2 Puma

If you are building a Puma, I recommend this book. It also has pictures and color graphs of the test vehicles.

[Snowwolflair]

That is interesting as the brown grey camo does not show up well on B/W photos and could explain why there are descriptions of them being all grey. I will take a look at the book.

This raises the question does anyone know of distinct Grey brown camo photos.

[lmcq11]

Take note that the series prototype is a 234/1 with the 20mm turret, not a Puma.

[Snowwolflair]

I have seen a phot of a Puma /2 which really looks like all grey and it was in a combat situation. This may be a grey/brown and bad colour definition but it is clearly not a dark yellow based camouflage as it was darker than the uniforms of the soldiers next to it. The photos was Eastern front and snow on the ground.

[jhamm]

There was never ever a Puma (Sd.Kfz. 234/1-4) with grey colour, they were all built from mid / autumn 1943 onwards and dark yellow colour.
The predecessor of the Puma - the Sd.Kfz. 231 - was build from 1937 to 1943 and have 8 wheel too.
These were with panzer grey colour and are often confused with the Puma.
In black and white pictures all tanks are grey...

[Snowwolflair]

I solved the problem.

The photo I saw was an Eastern Front field overpaint of a grey / white winter camouflage which explains the snow on the ground.