octopus pattern camo

After a bit or a search I found this. hope it helps

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Phil

Welcome to the forums,you know what I did,I googled "German Octopus Camo Pattern" and the search returned lots of good examples,give it a shot

A series of little semi circles, or circles found scattered around the tank, usually on the secondary color. Not sure the thinking behind it, but i wouldn't say it was popular. I've only seen them on King Tigers myself.

There's some speculation that it was going to be the scheme ordered for June '45 and beyond and only shows up on a KT sent out to defend the Henschel plant right at war's end. It's a very neat looking scheme but not a common one due to the war coming to an end when it did.

After some more research, I came across this link. Good luck trying to reproduce this camouflage pattern! Anyone willing to take me up on the challenge? Thanks again for the feedback.

http://armorama.kitmaker.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=SquawkBox&file=index&req=viewtopic&topic_id=128483&page=1

 Ariel this way makes it easier to the link: http://www.armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=SquawkBox&file=index&req=viewtopic&topic_id=128483&page=1

I have the Dragon Late King Tiger and will eventually paint it as this one. It's really different! That is a real special subject. As Bill pointed out, think only one Tiger got this paint job. Silly Putty will be used for the masking on this one.

World of Tanks players will recognize the "octopus" pattern as one of the available camo patterns, although the colors they use are dunklegelb, and red/brown.  I have it on my Jagdpanther in the game.

Interesting scheme, i haven't seen that one before. I might try that on a paper panzer.

Personally I don't get it. It doesn't seem as effective as the so-called disc pattern, but that was meant for ambushing in forests

Personally I don't get it. It doesn't seem as effective as the so-called disc pattern, but that was meant for ambushing in forests.

It is difficult to see how effective it would have been. Maybe it was just a desperate attempt to try anything. It was mentioned that this scheme was to be adopted in June, but it must have seemed highly optomistic to anyone with sense that Germany would still be in the war at that stage.

Believe it or not Bish, in the final months of the war there were programs being drafted for the next 12 months of production plans! Definitely a case of head in the sand by many of the top leadership...but then Hitler was always going on about a "miracle" ala FDR's death that would turn the fortunes of war...so unless you wanted to end up a camp, you went along.

O ye, i can well believe it. You only have to look at the Luft 46 projects being worked on in the final days of the war.

I recently read a book by a Luftwaffe test pilot who did a lot of the testing on captured aircraft. I was surprised to read they were still doing this with the enemy on German soil.

wbill76

Believe it or not Bish, in the final months of the war there were programs being drafted for the next 12 months of production plans! Definitely a case of head in the sand by many of the top leadership...but then Hitler was always going on about a "miracle" ala FDR's death that would turn the fortunes of war...so unless you wanted to end up a camp, you went along.

Bill: That's quite interesting, the planning of the war into the next year - in 1945! What an insane situation it must have been  - being trapped in a system and being  forced to accept a reality that doesn't exist and make plans for a future you know will not come! That's totalitarianism in a nutshell.

/Tont

Could well be the Axis still had visions of invading Great Britain using amphibious tanks. Let's pretend by calling it "Operation SeaTiger". The octopus scheme surely would have come in handy then!