Hi All;

I am stumped! I have a build that I just completed, and I am stymied as to what type of paint scheme this build should have.
So.....instead of racking my brain, I thought I'd throw this out to all my fellow T48'ers.

Please take a look at these pics, and maybe give me an idea of what you would colour scheme you'd like to see me put on this beasty. Sorry I can't offer a cash prize to the winner, but he/she will get bragging rights. I really could use some ideas.

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to offer me a suggestion, and here is the model....









Again thank you all in advance, any ideas at all will be a huge help.

Cheers, Pat

I vote "Battle of the Buldge" in a winter style. Nice build Pat

I concur with Greg, my favorite for the KT is the Battle of the Bulge ambush camo. Good looking build Pat!!

Hey Pat; Looking forward to a nice three color camo or perhaps that ambush scheme...winter is ok but I much prefer the multiple colors with a nice application of grease, dust and wear! Whatever strikes your fancy; I'll be on the sidelines watching. Chris Schwach

Bare primer, bright welds with 'splash' and scorch marks, hand-painted workers part numbers and chalk marks,  with a worker just starting to spray the base colour somewhere. Mounted on a workshop concrete floor.  I don't know if the hull and turret were painted before they were mated together, but hey.... Anyway, good excuse to make it pristine, instead of with all the thin platework dinged up or missing!

Tim

www.fighting48th.com

You don't even have to put it in a workshop, if you go here: http://www.wargamer.com/Hosted/Panzer/ktiger.htm
there is a picture on the right of a couple of men spraying their Tiger 2 out in the open beside a forest. You could have part in the base colour, and parts in the greens and browns (tri-camouflage). That would work for everyone except the winter theme responses.

Ken

Tim, lad (TM), the major German tank manufacturers didn't make the basic armor assemblies (i.e., hulls and turret shells). These were built up at armor fabricators like Wegmann and shipped as basic welded assemblies but with no final machining. The standard practice was for the armor fabricators to paint the armor assemblies with a prescribed primer, generally to a specified color. For much of the war, this was a red-brown primer, then in very late 1944-early 1945, this was changed to an olive green. Of course, it could take months until all the older red-brown assemblies had been built up as completed vehicles, so the red-brown primer was seen well into 1945. Starting in August 1944, camouflage schemes were done at the factories, and the primer coat was used as the base color with the additional colors painted over it. In January 1945, Olive Green RAL 6003 was to replace the earlier Dark Yellow RAL 7028 as the basic camouflage color. Again, it took some time for this to be standard practice.

The point of this tomfoolery is that there wouldn't have been fresh welding on the basic armor structures themselves. There would have been plenty of fresh welds for attaching tool brackets, stowage boxes, auxiliary equipment, and any changes ordered into production that had not been incorporated at the time the basic armor structures were being built. I rather like the factory idea, and I have seen a few models like this that were very impressive.

Hi Guys;

Thanks for the responses, I am now leaning heavily towards a tri-colour camo, but here is one to chew on........



....Hmmm.....

Cheers, Pat

I would also go with the BOB ambush scheme.

Hi Pat:

I like the American one very much. Panzerwrecks 5 (I think? Maybe 4) has some great photos of that one being driven by GIs. The one complication with it is the zimmerit. I don't know whether you'd want to apply that at this stage.

Cheers,

Scott Taylor
Thachweave Products
http://thachweave.tripod.com

I like this primer with hard-edge camo idea. I once did a 1/72 Panther this way and it attracted a lot of interest and generated more than a few questions. Judging by your other models, you would do this scheme more justice than I ever did and with your painting and weathering style I think it would turn out great.

Of course, I suppose that it might be good if it could be confirmed (or as close as we can hope to get) that some Tiger II's were actually done this way.

Tod,

IIRC most -if not all- standard production King Tigers (without zimmerit) were delivered in red primer finish with two bags of green and dark yellow paint to be applied by crews on the field.

I guess red brown camouflaged shade is not necessary in this case.

Lu

now all it needs to finish it is displayed as 'knocked out' and well-charred/burnt out. After all, it is a German Tank and you would be bucking the trend.

There were, after all, a large number of knocked out German Armour during WWII and although King Tigers were few, there were at least some?

Just a though

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I say tri colour stripes, cheers Bob.

But if your model is a very LATE version....the Octopus scheme from Hungary!!
No matter, it's a great assembly......about to experience an even better finish!!!