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Armor/AFV: What If?
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Experimental camo ideas for a 46 tiger in uk?
lespauljames
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Posted: Monday, May 05, 2008 - 09:19 AM UTC
anyone have any ideas as to what a tiger 2s camoflage would have been had it been shipped for the attack of the u.k in 1946.
This IS a WHAT IF.
would it have been kept the same or would thay have developed a totaslly new sytem for the offensive?
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jphillips
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Posted: Monday, May 05, 2008 - 03:28 PM UTC
What a cool idea. You even have a sort of backstory for your "what if", like an alternate history. Great imagination. Maybe you could have a burned-out, gutted British army vehicle in it too, or some landmark, to make it obvious that you're in the UK.
lespauljames
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Posted: Monday, May 05, 2008 - 07:30 PM UTC
The landmark is a british shop! Its my first attempts at scratching anything and imgoing for a street section.
lespauljames
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Posted: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 - 08:34 AM UTC
hello. anyone have any exact colour ideas. i tried vallejo beige brown. and a colour similar to german grey. and a miserable atempt at a green. need fair bit o help here.
im not sure if the base coat should be panzergelb it looks a bit false
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Posted: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 - 11:27 AM UTC

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hello. anyone have any exact colour ideas. i tried vallejo beige brown. and a colour similar to german grey. and a miserable atempt at a green. need fair bit o help here.
im not sure if the base coat should be panzergelb it looks a bit false



I'd go for an olive green base coat Then add some red brown for camo
lespauljames
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Posted: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 - 10:03 PM UTC
like the idea of the olive green
what type o brown?
marsiascout
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Posted: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 03:03 AM UTC
Like he said:

Red brown

Lars
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Posted: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 11:27 AM UTC
Octopus.
lespauljames
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Posted: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 09:40 PM UTC
thank you lars i knew that. i am not dumb. i meant to say any references to vallejo?
and octopus.
what the heck?
Lisec
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Posted: Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 08:28 AM UTC

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thank you lars i knew that. i am not dumb. i meant to say any references to vallejo?
and octopus.
what the heck?


something like this:
https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/117012&page=1
lespauljames
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Posted: Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 09:12 PM UTC
ill stick with the green brown.
pics of the turret soon
Jamesite
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Posted: Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 10:24 PM UTC
As Herbert says, the planned scheme for late '45 onwards by the whermarcht was the octopus scheme, and so this would be the most historically accurate.
However, invading Britain in '46? while I applaud your artistic license i'd like to know how the German army recovered enough to invade Britain at this late stage in the war!

A far more plausible one would be the invasion of Britain in 1940.

Good luck,

James
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Posted: Friday, May 09, 2008 - 12:40 AM UTC
Maybe Normandy failed. The battle of stalingrad was won and that changes. I think that the best option is the octopus scheme. You have a little chance for other camos that you can decide yourself. But i don't think they would use brown and green

Lars
lespauljames
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Posted: Friday, May 09, 2008 - 05:14 AM UTC
sorry lars i have allready done it
look.....

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Posted: Sunday, May 18, 2008 - 05:52 PM UTC

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Maybe Normandy failed. The battle of stalingrad was won and that changes. I think that the best option is the octopus scheme. You have a little chance for other camos that you can decide yourself. But i don't think they would use brown and green

Lars



Great idea- possible timeline:
Moscow captured in the initial offensive of the invasion of Russia
Huge amounts of captured materiel and industrial zones
Axis forces repulse the Allies in North Africa and therfore there was no invasion of Sicily and Italy.
Stalingrad capitulates with huge amounts of Russian forces being cutoff and destroyed or captued.
Allied forces were repulsed at Normandy and could never recover for another cross channel invasion.
America had enough of a European war for the second time in the century and struck a separate peace with Germany and concentrated her war efforts on Japan and establishing a Pacific rim presence in order to knock out the communists in the years to come.
I just love these alternate history ideas!

Good luck on your build and let your imagination run loose.

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