Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: Greebo on August 29, 2014, 02:55:09 AM
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Thanks to Lyric1 for finding me the info for this skin.
This is one of the first Tiger Tanks issued to s.Pz.Abt. 502 near Leningrad in late 1942/early 1943 and is painted in the Wehrmacht's early war Panzer Grey scheme.
(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/screenshots1/s.Pz.Abt._502_Tiger_I_SC1.jpg)
(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/screenshots1/s.Pz.Abt._502_Tiger_I_SC2.jpg)
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Beautiful!
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Sweet!
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That's one evil looking Tiger. :rock
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Darth Vader's Tiger.
I wonder how many other people that frequent this forum are doing so to see greebo's next masterpiece besides me.
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That is my new Tiger I skin. :aok
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What was the logic behind painting armor grey overall? I'd think that'd make them stick out pretty badly
Probably did considering they changed it
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sweet :aok
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Outstanding work. :aok
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Thanks guys, it is something a bit different to the usual brown and green paint jobs.
What was the logic behind painting armor grey overall? I'd think that'd make them stick out pretty badly
Probably did considering they changed it
German armour was factory painted panzer grey from the start of the war up to 1943, with the exception of vehicles destined for the Afrika Korps. This colour worked reasonably well as camouflage in Western Europe and the Balkans. However after Barbarossa German tank crews found the colour did stand out against the brown steppe terrain and often painted ad hoc brown camo on their tanks with either mud or paint. So in early 1943 the Wehrmacht ordered all new vehicles to be painted dark yellow, a light olive brown colour. Green or red brown paint was also made available to crews and could then be applied over the dark yellow for extra camo if necessary.
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Can you has another 6" of paint? I needit to be just that much harder ;)