Sorry for the flurry of questions as of late but there is alot of varying information on Tiger 007,

Sooo Is there a decent five shot (sides/front/back/top) color picture of Tiger 007

Thank you very much for all your help.

Jeff

Don't know if it's accurate or not...



Full size

To me the green and brown appear to be a bit too "wavy" (like on the rear of the Rommelkiste)...

H.P.

The pattern looks fairly hard-edged...maybe because it's a drawing? Is it more likely to be brush painted, or sprayed?

In the picture of the tank's destruction you can see the camo is clearly sprayed on. To me also, it looks a bit more sparse and wispy than the colour plates.

I don’t think the sort of coverage you seek exists. However, SS101 probably painted its tanks at much the same time with the same personnel so you could work from the general style of other tanks of the Abteilung, which were sprayed.

On the positive front, it’s unlikely that anyone will show up and tell you that you are wrong and have evidence to support their claim. Then again, if they did, you might welcome the information😀

From what I know there were very few photos of 007 to get a specific pattern from. Just enough to hint at a style.

"Maybe because it's a drawing" might also explain the odd shaping of the fenders in that side angle pic. They appear to slope and become narrower towards the rear. Haven't seen this in other Tiger 1 photos. I'd agree with the others, in that you can pretty well match the colors, and if you came close to the pattern as in Frenchy's pic, you'd be OK.

Because the artist painted over a diagram of the hull without fenders, and he painted fenders to match the bottom edge of the hull side, without knowing that the real ones extend down beyond the hull side.

He also missed the facts that 007 was a Command Tiger and was not the final version.

David

Here you'll find a few more color profiles for Tigers from the Schwere-SS Panzer Abteilung 101 in Normandy :

https://images.auctionhelper.com/images/10343//H-Models%20Decals/HMDT35009A.jpg

https://images.auctionhelper.com/images/10343//H-Models%20Decals/HMDT72009C.jpg

% of artistic licence unknown...

H.P.

We know colour plates can often be wishful thinking, or as David has pointed out, the vehicle is not correctly depicted.

This thread compiles some pics of 007, 008 and 009 and you can get a general idea of the scheme and how it was applied:
http://ww2f.com/threads/ssspzabt-101s-tigers-in-normandy-pictures.30225/


Of extra interest is Tiger 214 - very blurry, crudely painted compared to the other ones. I wonder: was the crew not that interested? Was it hastily renumbered in field?

Awesome info

Thank you all

Jeff