ardennes armor

snipped-for-privacy@some.domain wrote in news:ferNl.310391$ snipped-for-privacy@en-nntp-09.dc.easynews.com:

I'm dying to ask, which side?

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

duh, the rosicrucians? i'm doing a rosie brummbahr and i want something beside the drab gray or the yeller with red and green. something that really sez it's here, it's cherman and it's a real bad mofo. no pasteboard white neither. speak, oh great one, steer me to the light. (ness)

r" wrote:> snipped-for-privacy@some.domain wrote in

Unfortunately most of the ones I have are colored burned-out carbon black...

Seriously, do some research as a number of SS units like 2nd SS Panzer were there.

Cookie Sewell

ok, thanks cookie

ler" wrote:> snipped-for-privacy@some.domain wrote in

One area to look at, go to U Tube and look up some of the pro Nazi newsreel stuff that is posted. you hit one armor clip and it goes to 'others like that' . Some photography is better than others, but you get an idea of what operationally it looked like from all the propaganda films out there. sort of a different source from all the other books out there. not to mention web sites.

thanks, i did that but there only seem to be b&w films.

Not my area but for what its worth . . .

The yellow colour on german armour was the base coat, applied at the factory, over which there were various camoflage pattern styles, in various colours, some based on 'spots' others on 'stripes' and 'blobs'. From memory they originally used a base of grey but by the time of D Day the yellow was (I think) standard.

Not much help I fear but all I have to offfer.

Mike

"Mike Smith" wrote in news:gukequ$i41$ snipped-for-privacy@news.albasani.net:

Grey gave way to dark yellow/olive green/dark red browm in '43. By the time of the Ardennes olve green was the base coat on which dark yellow and red brown was to be applied.

If the Germans had spent as much time mass prodcuing tanks as they did wrting camo regs...