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General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: lunatic1 on August 04, 2018, 01:03:22 PM
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where would I find a list of german and Russian tank skins? please
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Here is a link to Skuzzy's new AH Skins page (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/skins/index.php). Just select the ride you want in the drop down box. Not all skins listed have a screenshot but I think all of the German GV and most of the Soviet GV skins do.
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thanks Greebo- I have all the skins downloaded.
I should have asked the right question, I'm thinking of trying to make some tank skins myself, and I was wondering if there was a list I could go to see real or patterns for tank skins for WWII tanks that I can make for our tanks here in game.
there are no green skins or enough green in the skins of the german tanks, like they do for the American and Russian tanks, most of the german tank skins look like skins for desert warfare, surly Germany had squads or battalions with green or partly green paint schemes. :joystick:
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Surly Germany had squads or battalions with green or partly green paint schemes. :joystick:
No not really.
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The way WW2 German tank camo worked is this: From 1939 to 1942 the factory base colour was dark grey, apart from some two-tone brown ones for the Afrika Korps. There were instances of crews applying extra camo in the field, particularly in the desert before the factory brown tanks began appearing there and in Russia where mud was often used.
In 1943 the factory base colour for non-Africa-bound German vehicles changed to dark yellow, actually a very light brown. The reason for this was complaints from Eastern front units that the dark grey colour was useless as camo against the brown Russian steppe terrain. Tank units were also given supplies of olive green and red brown paint that could be applied over the light brown as needed. In 1944 the policy changed to factories applying the red brown and green paint themselves, to help camouflage the tanks from Allied aircraft while on the way to the front.
In 1945 the official base colour was changed to the olive green, with the dark yellow and red brown applied over that. However by this time factories were just using whatever paint they could get hold of so not all of them had complied with this by the time they were overrun.
Photos of tanks painted in the 1945 dark green base colour are not that common and I have skinned any suitable ones I or Lyric1 have found. In general you should be looking at the wheels as they were usually left base colour. Some Tiger IIs, Panthers, Jagdpanthers, Jagdpanzer IV L70s, and Panzer IV Js (OK on the H shape) were painted this way, but usually with the other two colours applied over the top as well. For the dark grey scheme only the 251, Panzer IV F and a few early Tiger Is are applicable.