New Camo Schemes For The Panzer

[Rendar]

I think these would be much better camo schemes for the Panzer instead of the ridiculous desert one we have now.

   

   

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[This message has been edited by Rendar (edited 05-21-2000).]

[flakbait]

Here here!! Why we got that desert cammo job is beyond me; we don't have desert terrain! Oh, and one other thing.......Gimme that Tiger!!


Flakbait
A man standing in the shadows of giants

[Rendar]

Oh yeah, and a Tiger II tank would be nice too.  

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[MaxImm]

I posted this comment under the BF 109 color scheme string however I think it also applies here:

Heres an idea for HT..
Allow a theatre color scheme choice button <Europe=greens, Africa=browns, Russian Front=whites> and that will drive the terrain and camo's. We still all fly in 1 arena, we just all see things in a slightly different reality.
Couldn't be too hard for the HT crew to figure out.

Sometimes I'm feelin in a wintery mood or purhaps long for a more arid environment.

This would satisfy those mood swings.

[Dinger]

Yeah, cool idea, but remember that HTC doesn't have unlimited artistic resources.  Frankly I'd rather have those artists chained to their desks designing new AC models and skins rather than reskinning the ones we got.  Besides, I don't think the current panzer camo scheme is "ridiculous".  Come on, it's gorgeous.  The interior is missing an ashtray and cupholder, tho.

[Fishu]

Anything that gorgeous as PZ-IV has, makes you a better target  
"Oh I have such a beatiful tank but I am VERY scared in it!"

[LLv34 Nattulv]

The current typ PzKpfw IV scheme was used on the Easter Front also.
The Russian steppe tends to be quite dry in the summer.
 

[Rendar]

I didn't say the current desert camo scheme is ugly, just that it has no place in the current terrain.  It's much mmore fun to hunt Panzers while zoomed all the way in rather than being able to see them from miles away as yellow dots on a green background.

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[Pongo]

The cam scheme on the panzer IVH was regulation late 43-late 44 paint job. The tank in question was in normandy.
From mid 43 on the germans painted all of their vehicles a dark yellow colour. This was over sprayed with Dark green and Dark red at the unit level.
The panzer here is totaly correct for summer 44 in NWE or italy or russia for that matter.

That dark green PZiv in your picture looks like a syrian paint job. Or a russian one. There may have been a WW2 German PZIVH in that colour but it certainly would have been very rare...


[This message has been edited by Pongo (edited 05-21-2000).]

[spora]

Bovington tank museum has examples of various colour schemes the Germans used.  For some reason the "yellow sand" was popular - maybe there was a surplus of that specific paint?

Original colours were not suitable for Finnish terrain, so dark green/grey/black schemes were used.  An example of a Pzkw IV is at:
 http://www.pp.htv.fi/jveijala/tankit/tank11.html

Check also Sturmgeschuetz - there is a picture of a tank with the original colour scheme.

(Sorry about the colour balance on these pictures - I really should fix it some day...)