Because the base color is green, it would be a late war camo.

Both mid and late Tiger 1s in Normandy had zimmerit. In fact almost all German tanks in the Normandy campaign were coated with Zimmerit.

Their tanks' base color was still Dunkelgelb, but most of the yellow was painted over with green, then brown, and small lines of yellow left, to better blend in with the heavy foliage found in Normandy. It looks like this modeler used green as his base color just to save on the yellow!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that the only mid-Tigers in Normandy were with 1st company of s.SS.Pz.Abt.101

The link may be to the wrong example. However that is a post Dec 44 paint scheme. All of the Normandy paint schemes I have seen are dunkelgelb based. I dought a crew hand painted the tank to cover the dunkelgelb. In Normandy they were hiding from aircraft. If you look this is a 2 color paint schemes separated by yellow. If a crew just hand painted over the dunkelgelb there would be much less uniform distribution of color. You would have some large areas of green or brown depending on which color they used to paint over the dunkelgelb.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that the only mid-Tigers in Normandy were with 1st company of s.SS.Pz.Abt.101

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I won't contradict you, but any replacement tanks during the Normandy campaign would have been Late-production models.

Hi,

I made Dragon 6383 in that particular scheme for Tiger 134 and painted the Dunkelgelb first then sprayed the large Olivgrun and Rotbraun areas on top. I think is the correct way IMHO, as said above.
You can see the painting here:
Tiger Late Normandy

Regards!

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The link may be to the wrong example. However that is a post Dec 44 paint scheme. All of the Normandy paint schemes I have seen are dunkelgelb based. I dought a crew hand painted the tank to cover the dunkelgelb. In Normandy they were hiding from aircraft. If you look this is a 2 color paint schemes separated by yellow. If a crew just hand painted over the dunkelgelb there would be much less uniform distribution of color. You would have some large areas of green or brown depending on which color they used to paint over the dunkelgelb.

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Greg, no, this isn't a late war scheme. At least some of s SS 102's Tigers were painted like this. There are several well known pics of some of their Tigers, in this scheme, moving to the front in Normandy. Here are a couple of them I found in a quick online search.





Concerning the original question, I'm not where I can get to my refs right now, but all the pics I've seen of tigers with this scheme are lates. If I find anything differently later I'll let you know.

Mike

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that the only mid-Tigers in Normandy were with 1st company of s.SS.Pz.Abt.101

My question is this: has anyone seen a photo or evidence suggesting Heavy Panzer Battalion 102 applied this type of paint scheme to a mid-production Tiger? Or is there only evidence of this being on late Tigers with zimmerit?

I'd like to apply this scheme to a mid-production Tiger as I have already made a late Tiger with zimmerit, and diversity is the spice of life!



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