Ok I have a question for all Tiger experts. I have found several black and white images of Jagdtiger 331 as well as the Walk Around of 331 on Prime Portal
http://www.primeportal.net/tanks/dmitry_kiyatkin/jagdtiger/
So my question is,is the paint scheme on the color images of the walk around 1 accurate? Also it appears to be a hard edged brushed on pattern. Would this be an accurate pattern to attempt to duplicate on my Dragon Jagdtiger kit #6285
Thanks in advance
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ltb073
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Posted: Saturday, February 04, 2012 - 04:36 AM UTC
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Posted: Saturday, February 04, 2012 - 05:05 AM UTC
Hi Sal,
FWIW, here's an original color photo of that vehicle taken shortly after its capture. Although the photo is faded and the colors have shifted, I think you can still make out the cammo pattern edges and spots.
My own interpretation of the pattern is that it's a soft-edged three color (dark yellow, brown, and olive green) with "ambush" pattern sprayed spots of contrasting colors (same three colors). If you look closely, the dark yellow areas are quite clear and I would guess that the lighter "gray" tones are the green and the darker ones the brown.
Also, you can see along the bottom edge of the hull sides where the fender-Schurtzen masked the original cammo colors. I would guess these hard-edged areas are in primer red. This also suggests that the three commo colors were sprayed individually over the primer red instead of spraying the overall dark yellow followed by the other colors.
However, as they say, "Your milage may vary..."
HTH,
FWIW, here's an original color photo of that vehicle taken shortly after its capture. Although the photo is faded and the colors have shifted, I think you can still make out the cammo pattern edges and spots.
My own interpretation of the pattern is that it's a soft-edged three color (dark yellow, brown, and olive green) with "ambush" pattern sprayed spots of contrasting colors (same three colors). If you look closely, the dark yellow areas are quite clear and I would guess that the lighter "gray" tones are the green and the darker ones the brown.
Also, you can see along the bottom edge of the hull sides where the fender-Schurtzen masked the original cammo colors. I would guess these hard-edged areas are in primer red. This also suggests that the three commo colors were sprayed individually over the primer red instead of spraying the overall dark yellow followed by the other colors.
However, as they say, "Your milage may vary..."
HTH,
Tojo72
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Posted: Saturday, February 04, 2012 - 08:44 AM UTC
Sal,I built #331, I used the reference The Modeling guide to Jagdpanzers by Jim Hensley used a photo of it on a flat car at Aberdeen,claiming that the other shots show it mostly covered with dust,this one depicts a soft edge modified ambush scheme,just using dunklegelb and red brown
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Posted: Saturday, February 04, 2012 - 01:12 PM UTC
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Sal,I built #331, I used the reference The Modeling guide to Jagdpanzers by Jim Hensley used a photo of it on a flat car at Aberdeen,claiming that the other shots show it mostly covered with dust,this one depicts a soft edge modified ambush scheme,just using dunklegelb and red brown
Anthony do you mean this photo
or other color photos of 331 @ Aberdeen. I read that the conflict with those are that the straight line of primer red that is seen in Mikes color photo is missing Also I have found this photos that show 331 with what appears to be the spot camo
and these 2 b&w photo,1 from a different angel of Mikes color photo
by the way what are you standing in front of on your profile picture
Also if 331 was captured with tracks on it why would they remove the track to load it on the flat bed
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Posted: Saturday, February 04, 2012 - 02:47 PM UTC
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Quoted TextSal,I built #331, I used the reference The Modeling guide to Jagdpanzers by Jim Hensley used a photo of it on a flat car at Aberdeen,claiming that the other shots show it mostly covered with dust,this one depicts a soft edge modified ambush scheme,just using dunklegelb and red brown
Anthony do you mean this photo
or other color photos of 331 @ Aberdeen. I read that the conflict with those are that the straight line of primer red that is seen in Mikes color photo is missing Also I have found this photos that show 331 with what appears to be the spot camo
and these 2 b&w photo,1 from a different angel of Mikes color photo
by the way what are you standing in front of on your profile picture
Also if 331 was captured with tracks on it why would they remove the track to load it on the flat bed
Sal,I'm sure he was referring to the bottom pic,that looks like it's back in the states,I'm no expert,but I thought his build looked good,so I followed his,here are some shots:
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Posted: Sunday, February 05, 2012 - 12:22 AM UTC
Anthony--great paint job! Very nice....I'll try to emulate.
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DJ
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DJ