Hey i've ordered a Sturmgeschütz IV, i would appriciate someone to tell me a step by step instructions on how you would go around painting it.

The base color would be [/]dunkelgelb[/i]. From there, you have to determine what, if any other camo you want. You could have mottling or distruptive patterns in dunkelgrun and or rotbrun as well as an ambush pattern. You could probably even apply a winter whitewash over this.
Do you have a specific vehiocle in mind?

vechiocle? i think i already said i was doing a Sturmgeschütz IV if u meant veahicel. also what colour is [/]dunkelgelb[/i]. i'm fairly new to the whole modeling thing and u lot are just veterens :-)

German Lesson 1.

Dunkelgelb = dark yellow
Dunkelgrun = dark green
Rotbrun = Red-brown

Hope that helps, Smeagol. Dunkel means dark to them veterans :-)

Dünkel=dark
Gelb=yellow

After February 1943, most German AFVs were basecoated in dark yellow ( a sort of tannish yellow, although it went through a few changes during the war) and would then often have disruptive colors of olive green (a grayer, or bluer, green than used on allied vehicles which tended to be a browner-green) and redbrown applied by the crews in the field. These latter paints were issued in tins to be diluted by whatever was at hand (usually petrol) and were applied by either brush or airgun (many of the the big cats were actually issued airguns for this purpose). Since dilution mixes and methods of application varied, some vehicles would sport very dark disruptive patterns, others very light.
If you look at photos of later war German vehicles (or models of such vehicles), you will undoubtedly see lots of these three colors in practically every pattern imagineable.
Hope this helps!

Make that "vehicle," sorry for the typo.
"Dunkelgelb" is dark yellow, the tother colors are red brown and dark green.
When I said sepcific vehicle, not all Stugs were painted alike and you'll have to choose a particular (or representative) stug to model and paint.

Ok thanks alot, alfleche i didn't mean to sound rude or ungrateful about the typing erorr. Thanks for the history of colours Steve it helped alot

If you have a look in the Tank Destroyer Campaign Gallery , there are a few Stug IV's in different schemes.
This is mine



Cheers
Henk