Al;

Looks mighty cool... and mighty fanciful, to me!

I doubt anyone would have painted one all-white, and then added a brown overlay pattern onto that - the white (whitewash) would have gone onto an already-camouflaged JgdPz and if they wanted some camo to show through, they would have simply left purposeful gaps in the white coat - more often the gaps we've seen in photos of white schemes likely more represented lack of supplies of white rather than planned-for gaps, but... I really doubt that anyone would actually go to the trouble of either carefully spot-masking the white (in which case the "brown" should be revealed tricolor camo), or repainting with brown over that white hull to get those "gaps"! The barrel banding would be a crew member brushing on "strips of white" and does show up.

But we should all be cautious of saying "never" when it comes to things in War and maybe specially so with German later-war armor! I'm half-sure some expert will eventually jump up with the definitive pic and state that this indeed happened as shown in the artwork!:D

Just my opinion! It's like the proverbial tossed-down gauntlet and a red flag for the angry bulls!

Bob

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Al;

Looks mighty cool... and mighty fanciful, to me!

I doubt anyone would have painted one all-white, and then added a brown overlay pattern onto that - the white (whitewash) would have gone onto an already-camouflaged JgdPz and if they wanted some camo to show through, they would have simply left purposeful gaps in the white coat - more often the gaps we've seen in photos of white schemes likely more represented lack of supplies of white rather than planned-for gaps, but... I really doubt that anyone would actually go to the trouble of either carefully spot-masking the white (in which case the "brown" should be revealed tricolor camo), or repainting with brown over that white hull to get those "gaps"! The barrel banding would be a crew member brushing on "strips of white" and does show up.

But we should all be cautious of saying "never" when it comes to things in War and maybe specially so with German later-war armor! I'm half-sure some expert will eventually jump up with the definitive pic and state that this indeed happened as shown in the artwork!:D

Just my opinion! It's like the proverbial tossed-down gauntlet and a red flag for the angry bulls!

Bob

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That's not white. It's dunkelgelb with the brown spots. Probably printed paler than what they wanted, but per the description of the color plate, that's what it's supposed to be.

Haven't seen the photo that painting is based on, but vehicles delivered by Vomag in the last five months of the war left the factory in what appears to be the summer 1944 pattern. The 655th Schwere Panzerjager Abteilung was surrendered largely intact to the Canadians in Holland in May, 1945, where they were extensively photographed in a captured vehicle assembly area. They had some late model Panzer IV 70 (V) in the third company (delivered November-December 1944), and some final models (Feb.-March, 1945) in the first company. It appeared that the base color for the vehicles in both companies had reverted to Dunkelgelb, with disruptive patterns of Olivgrun and Rotbraun oversprayed in fairly hard-edged patterns. This was contrary to the December, 1944 regulations, which required that Olivgrun be the base color, but apparently nobody in the Army's acceptance office was going to reject new equipment because the paint had been applied in the wrong order. Several of these photos have appeared in various publications, but they have been published in large format in a couple of the excellent Panzer Wrecks books. The second company of the battalion was Jagdpanther G2 tank destroyers, by the way.