Jagdpanther G2 base on Heng Long Hull

[wibblywobbly]

Just to say a couple of things, it was quite common to only apply camo to the sides of tanks, several reasons, lack of paint, time to do it, and camo was only effective against a background, so air attacks would need camo that matched the ground? That's where camo nets are used.

As for the shades. German WW2 paint was produced in 3 factories, and they all produced different shades. As the war went on, those shades changed, so depending on whose paint was used and when it was applied, it would be unlikely to match anything else.

NATO colours are even worse. Although there is a standard NATO camo scheme, each country produces its own paint, so NATO tanks from different countries will be a different colour.

Yours looks excellent, really like it. If you weather it afterwards it will come to life.

[Soeren]

Thank you for your comments, these are well appreciated. The other day, I was thinking of how camo would work and I can follow your argument, that camo vs aircraft would need another form of coverage. This "root camo" , I will call it like that now, might be too difficile in that regard. On the other hand Reseda blends in with the late spring early summer vegetation. The dark green follows the darker shadows. Of course, the vegetation outside is not to scale , so things appear a bit less convincing.

Good to know about the paint. In regards camo on jps I had a walk through about 40 pictures of knocked out Jagfpanthers, together with the book pictures I have , that is about 50 different tanks. In only a few you can actually make out the camo scheme an some are really sloppy. The themes Tamiya uses were prevalent, Dragons not so much. Some seemed to have been applied really sloppy.

Yesterday, the upper hull was given a thin gloss coat to add resilience to the paint and prepare for decals. Also, I prepared the 14 pins and chains needed for those hangers. Now those are ready for paint and mounting after that.

[Soeren]

I dont know if anybody cares, but while having a walk during lunchbreak, I came to that spot and got enlightened regarding "double green camo on light sand background".

Also about the dark yellow in Ausf 44. I can imagine that Sherman commander asking his gunner "what is that sand coloured shed with the small window in the center besides that 2 tiered house, it´s looking oddly placed?" #SWOOOOOOSH# One less Sherman

[c.rainford73]

I for one am very convinced

[Tiggr]

Is there a tank in that picture ?

[Soeren]

Quite obvious isnt it? Just look left of the center on the right

[Soeren]

Oh my gosh. I applied decals yesterday. Had a set of Peddinghaus Jagdpanther decals. Horrbile, stripped the numbers today. The crosses sit well. so no Need there..... But the numbers... Have to repaint the box. Maybe I can use the stencils form my Panther to repaint the numbers.

[Soeren]

"Panther in the field" Made a test run today. Two Things. I didnt manage to find the Setting for the Recoil on the IBU2, no matter what time I set, it was either too Long or too short. After a few shots the cycle was incomplete. I tried from 500ms - 2500ms. Anybody knows the best Setting? 2nd; suddenly the tank began to smoke, after quickly shutting it down I realized the volume cable was molten on the black wire . Anybody have an idea how that can happen? I was using the Standard Taigen cables and a Visaton 10w Speaker.

[c.rainford73]

"Panther in the field" Made a test run today. Two Things. I didnt manage to find the Setting for the Recoil on the IBU2, no matter what time I set, it was either too Long or too short. After a few shots the cycle was incomplete. I tried from 500ms - 2500ms. Anybody knows the best Setting? 2nd; suddenly the tank began to smoke, after quickly shutting it down I realized the volume cable was molten on the black wire . Anybody have an idea how that can happen? I was using the Standard Taigen cables and a Visaton 10w Speaker.

Soeren sorry to hear that. Hope the damage was limited to just the wires. Was anything touching a ground? I've used the same speaker setup with the stock Taigen sound pententiometers without an issue. With my ibu2 boards I use the heavy duty ones supplied with the Tpa board.

[Soeren]

Yeah it might have been a contact too much. Have to beter sort the cables