"Good site for German tank camo schemes?" Topic

I am looking for a site with good pictures for German camo for my tanks…. I am liking the look of the two tone dunkel/green but now the three tone was more appropriate late war.

Any place with lots of colorful pics for me to daydream over?

Don't know of any site, but don't give up on your dreams of dunkel/green. There was no dictum on camo and units used what paint they had. Some units had an SOP, others left it up to the individual crews. There are lots of examples of vehicles done in just dunkel/green or just dunkel/red brown. If you want to do a unit or three without the red brown, who's to tell you you're wrong?

Don't worry, someone will come by to tell you that you are wrong.

The Flames of War books are a pretty good start for painting guides. Probably most of the old thin ones can be had for a small lump of change. I picked up some of the old late war books for less than half price not long after the Hammer Bear/Iron Wolf (or whatever it was) pair of books came out.

"Don't worry, someone will come by to tell you that you are wrong." lol

Guess I need to dig out the old books! I found this thread ( TMP link ) that got me excited. I'll just end up trying to copy this for now.

Just google german tanks ww2:

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Well cha! Just gives too many pics that aren't related in general :)

Although this did pop up early on google.uk (odd it is different than google results)

Nice

The flames of war website

The variety of paint schemes on German tanks and other vehicles gives enough leeway to do almost any combination. I recall a source mentioning a yard of caPtured vehicles in France. About 30% were three toned, 30% green and dunkelgelb, 30% brown and dunkelgelb, and 10% just dunkelgelb. There really was no German pattern until Ambush scheme was added in the factories during the Fall of 44 but then only for a few months. From 43 onward the units were supplied with paint and used it as they saw fit. Most were ugly, sloppy, and inconsistent, but modelers, gamers, and book illustrators tend to reproduce the the cool paint schemes that were probably the exception rather than the rule.

Try this one:
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Wow! Great site, 11th ACR.

That is very cool.

And:
panzerworld.net/colours.html

Good photos on this site some in color
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Hello folks,

I seem to have recalled that in 1943 on the Eastern Front some panzers had a paint scheme that consisted of the dunkelgrau base with olivegrun and rotbraun stripes over top of that. However my Google-Fu fails me and I can't find any pictures on the internet like that – they all have the Dunkelgelb base. Anyone ever see pictures of a scheme like that?

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I've seen this often on TMP. I'll reply to a thread with a related question in an attempt to keep the number of threads down, and someone will reply to the thread with something that answers the OP. Guess people just read the thread title and reply based on that?

All right, I'll start making more fresh threads.