Albino Pz38T?

Consider this an extreme example of how the camera can play tricks. I could find nothing else like them - I would have guessed all the other photos to be dust over some other color. (The great majority are clearly dark.)  What they really look like are photos of AFVs in the DAK.  But I tried. I looked my photos from Doyle and Culver and have included the only two I could find that show anything like the effect displayed by the PZ38Ts in France.  (Both unfortunately are from the rear) The towed gun is simply labeled "early war" and was put in Culver's book to display the effect of dust. The armored car in column is going up the Moscow Road somewhere in 1941. I'm an old farm boy and can't imagine conditions in Russia in dead summer resembling at all those of France in May. (The 38Ts also show clean treads which I can't figure. A ten ton tracked vehicle going over cultivated land of the type you'd find in France in early May - think parts of Wisconsin or southeast Minnesota - should be picking up that sticky soil. And the winter that year had been particularly cold and snowy. Maybe there'd been a dry spell - Frenchmen later remembered spring of 1940 as being particularly beautiful. Good flying weather for the LW too.) A few other things of interest. If you note the stain on the 38T on the lower front, you'll find one very like it in exactly the same place on the second vehicle. Crew must have been chucking stuff out there. Also, there are no people in the 38T photo. Not sure whether the tanks are going into action of if they're at rest. On the Russian column photo, note the road. In 1941 Russia, that's what passed for a decent road. Unless the ground was perfect for off-road that must have been a logistic headache of the first order. No wonder mud stopped the war in the East twice a year. Lastly I did include an albino Tiger from Culver's book. The year isn't mentioned, but Culver notes the tank was painted white. No stinking whitewash for that commander's brute. Make a neat model.

Give-away is on the front hull nose plate...you can see a "less dusty" spot that is the true Panzer Gray. Also note the contrast on the leather head-pad of the radio operator's hatch. That, combined with the head-on glare of the sun/lighting and you have a very dusty Pz38t. The fact that the overall shade of the vehicle matchs what you see on the tracks confirms it IMHO.

nice post good answers

Ron

They are simply dust covered panzer gray.

If I were to bet on it I'd say they're dark gray faded by the sun and covered with a layer of dust. Particularly if we assume the "K" is white. It's a great photo with plenty of detail in evidence.