My Strv103 is nearly finished. I was thinking of painting it in a winter camoufalge. Which of the 4 standard colors (light green, dark green, tan or black) should be replaced / overpainted bij white ?

Thanks in advance,
Marc

I would like to know that too!!! - And is the anyone who have any references and/or photos of finished models, of the Strv 103C this camo-scheme???

Best regards,

Bjoern

I do have some pictures but I can't quite figure out which color was replaced by white. The pictures are not clear to me and the camuflage sceme is different tha the one I have.

Marc

The 4-tone splintercamoflage consist of light green, dark green, black and khaki.

Khaki and light green is overpainted with white paint for wintercamo.

The paint used is a waterbased chalk very similar to the german type used during WWII and is therefore easily worn of and hard to get an full and even coverage.

I tried to use photoshop to illustrate how it would look if you cover the light green and khaki colours with white wash!
Is this how it should look?



Bjoern

WOW, that's a great tool to test different camouflage patterns on your models !!
Thanks !

Hilsen Clausen!

The chipping looks ok but the whitewash of wintercamo is more transparent so that usually the colours underneath shows through.

Take a lokk at Plastic Warfare for usefull information and inspiration:
http://www.plasticwarfare.com/

Heres one example from the gallery. Anders Isakssons Str 122.


Ha de dejligt!

TOKE,
If I read this correctly, then the best way would be to paint all four colors, then over paint the light green and brown with a thin white wash. OK, makes sense, since that is the way it was done anyway.

Also, I have read in posts on ML and TL that the fuel cans on the sides are painted in dark green only. Do you know if this is really the case? Same thing about early C's being in overall dark green only as well?

Dave

Whitewash or stipple/drybrush should do the trick. And I agree that first painting the 4-tone splinter would be a good idea. At least its easier to see the proportion.

Ive stipled this wintercamo on this 1/76 103C with Humbrol 34 + 28 some years ago


Im not a true expert on the 103C but Ive seen early vehicles painted allover in the greygreen colour originating from the fifties. Ive also seen vehicles all over in the 4-tone splinter camoflage except for the bottom and the wheels and sides behind the wheels.

Ive never seen the splintercamoflage with the fueltanks on the side in a solid colour. But I dont know if that was a possibility. Ive seen the storage canisters on the aft in different colours and different style though as these were often crashed and replaced.

Ooops heres the pic:


And heres the link:
http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/1997/11/stuff_nilsson_lost.htm

I fell in love with the S-tank the first ime I saw one many years ago. Sadly, they are out of service now. What improvement would be needed to have a 103"D". Upgrade the gun to a 120mm German? Reactive armor or Chobum armor? Are there any after market PE kits for the S-tank? And Finally how good is the Trumpeter kit?

AikinutNY,

Eduard has three or four different PE sets for the S-tank. I have the one w/ the "RPG Fence" and the wading pole retainers, etc. only. The Trumpeter kit goes together very well. It is a little small to scale probably closer to 1/38. I like it enough that I bought the b and the C versions. Built the B out of the box. Starting the C as soon as I have time LOL.

Dave S.