I spent about one and 1/2 hours painting this figure. Now I'm tasting the fruits of my labor. Except, I realized I had put a modern camo approach on a WWII SPG crewman. Did Germany implement this camo pattern during WWII?

I would say this is incorrect... for earlier time frames, I suggest field grey with a mouse grey interior. Not too sure if this exact reversable tunic came in winter white, it's possible. Later versions could be done in the splinter type pattern, if you can get a hold of a DML figure pack you can see what I mean, or simply visit the array of camo websites, google should bring up a few. Good luck!

just so you know, you can dunk the figure in some Super-Clean (aggressive Castrol degreaser, did I mention aggressive?) and the paint will come right off, enabling you to start again.

Good try tho'! Just miles off... sorry.

To be honest Matt it doesn't look like any German Camo Pattern I'm familiar with.

I think the best approach is to pick an actual como pattern- just type in "German camoflage uniform ww2" into Google and do an image search.

When you find one you like for example oakleaf spring pattern then do a search using "How to paint oakleaf pattern camo" there are plenty of tutorials online

Thanks guys. I suspected it was wrong. Luckily, I only painted one figure. The rest will be splinter camo as appears on the box art. I trashed the box and directions some months ago and was stuck in modern German camo as described in the directions for my German Leopard 2A6.

German dot camo, WWII

Matt, that is the same picture to create this guy last year with cheap craft store arclyic paint

Matt- If I may be so bold- if you check out this link I just finished a short step-by-step in this thread for the Dot Pea and Oak Leaf Spring pattern:

https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/180783&page=1

If I'm doing types of German camo I try and follow Calvin Tan's examples, he has an Osprey book on Modelling SS Figures and a blog here:

http://zyclyon.blogspot.com/

If its any consolation I don't think anyone finds modern or WW2 German camo particularly easy. I always try and keep several reference pictures close at hand when I'm doing them and I would be constantly stopping and looking at them to see if I'm heading in the right direction.

Hope this helps a bit, good luck mate.

Karl pretty much covers the SS patterns, but to jump on the bandwagon somewhat, if you are thinking of doing the splinter pattern I have put together a SBS here. that I hope will help.

Best of luck !

Karl&Andy Thanks a bunch. I'm doing two of them with the grey side showing and the rest in camo patterns. These links are a big help.

I'm going to use the splinter pattern Andy found and print it on some decal paper. The hardest part will be printing it to scale.