- Member since
October 2003
- From: New Hampshire, USA
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Posted by link955
on Thursday, January 8, 2004 12:57 AM
Well, the real solution comes down to what you want it to look like. If you can find it, Tamiya's "Dark Yellow" spray (TS-3) is actually a closer match to the German "Dunkelgelb" used after February 1943 (until 1943, German vehicles left the factory in Panzer Grey). Testor's #1955 "Afrika Mustard" is OK if you can't find Tamiya colors (Squadron carries the Tamiya spray colors), but it is actually closer in shade to the 1942 Afrika Braun RAL 8020 used by the Afrika Korps. Tamiya's Dark Yellow has a greenish cast, which all my research says is more accurate. As for the other colors, Testor's offers German Camo red-brown and dark green in bottle colors. In real life, the German camo colors were dispensed as a paste, and thinned with whatever was on hand (gasoline, waste oil, even water), and applied with everything from hands to brooms to spray guns. Because of this the shades of the applied camouflage colors would vary so widely there is no such thing as a "right" color. Also, weathering will change the way colors look. Since soft-skinned vehicles like your Schwimmwagen didn't carry air compressors, as tanks did, it would be just as likely to see a hand-painted camouflage application as a sprayed one. Also keep in mind, a Schwimmwagen would spend a lot of time in water (hence the name.. those Germans were so clever), so it's likely a lot of any camouflage colors would wash off to some extent (especially if they were thinned with water to start with) or at least fade faster, especially below the water line.
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