I'm ready to put paint to my Italeri M47 and wondered about the colors, post-WWII. I'm tempted to use the A/N-whatever Model Master offers but wondered if things got more standarized by the early '50's. And no, I won't be using 'battleship grey', a la Colonel Hessler in "Battle of the Bulge" - I've another kit set aside for just that purpose. ;-)
Frank Kranick
You've picked a time when clors were starting to shift into their first iteration of the FS-595 series but weren't there yet. It was common for unit commanders to have some gloss black mixed into the OD for tanks because the darker and glossier paint looked better on parade grounds.
Aaaahhh Yes! Anybody got a tape of "Panzer Leid"? Great music to build models by!
Bill Shuey
German Army Chorus Marches, vol. 1. I recently saw a copy on DVD at the local Media Play.
You sure that wasn't the Horst Wessel song?
"Jim" wrote in news:WsZ4f.9429$ snipped-for-privacy@tornado.rdc-kc.rr.com:
If you provide me with the lyrics, I could translate it for you, Panzer Lied, Horst Wessel Lied, Russland Lied you name'em.
Cheers, Dennis
The lyrics are really pretty lame -- sounds more like the motto of the US Post Office than a stirring battle song.
As for the OD question, FS34087 is fairly close, but many of the vehicles were gloss (e.g. FS14087) so that may be a bit of a problem.
As one of my friends who was in "F Troop" (Company F, 40th Armored, Berlin Brigade) once noted it takes seven cans of Johnsons' J-Wax to do an M60A1.
Cookie Sewell
Heh. At least we didn't paint white sidewalls on our tanks' tires... ;-p
I used to know a guy who built models and he lost at a model contest because his equipment was high gloss. He was building examples of the stuff they used in Berlin and the judges thought the pieces were 'wrong'. Good to have confirmation on that since the same guy borrowed my airbrush 20 years ago and left town with it. ;]
Bill Banaszak, MFE
Gentlemen - Many thanks for your info. I'll get mixing straightaway...
Frank Kranick
"Francis X. Kranick, Jr." wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@adelphia.com:
Tamiya Dark Olive Drab in the spray can. I did an M41 with it. Probably not as dark as some would suggest, but probably scale and semi gloss to boot.
You might try undercoating with good flat black. A kind of preshading thing. Not that you track heads do a whole lot of that ;-)
rich
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