"510. Schwere Panzer-Abteilung Painting Log" Topic

Part 1:

So I've finally gotten together all of the Ammo of Mig and AK paints I need to start getting serious about modulation at 15mm scale. I've used the technique a lot on 1/35th scale miniatures, but compared to 15mm – well, honestly there is no comparison.

I'm starting with some of the King Tigers from 510 Schwere Panzer-Abteilung – specifically the "green octopus" and the red primer one with some panzer dark yellow overspray. I'm basing the paint schemes on Trojca's King Tiger book and some extant photos.

The base green modulated nicely using a 3 color modulation:

The primer red looked great too:

Not content to stop there, I went ahead and did the panzer yellow overspray… the new Iwata Custom Micron made short work of it… unfortunately I'd lost the lovely natural light, so the flash and my indoor lighting washes out a lot of the marvelous detail in the shading – but you get the general idea:

One cool thing about this particular vehicle is it had a couple of track guards in "ambush" scheme (though the connector between the two is depicted as still being in primer red):

So far I'm extremely happy with the results.

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Part 2:

So I'm making progress! I got my panzer putty in, and went ahead and masked up the "octopus" scheme:

I went ahead and started getting the panzer dark yellow down and highlighted:

… and then got the octopus spots on one of the two:

I also got a better picture of the primer one:

From a tank standpoint, this is starting to come together. I've also started scraping the infantry and FlaK gun crews…

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More to come!

Wow! That looks fantastic!

Incredible work! I'm envious!

I'd love to see those in person, but I'd hate to see them across the table from me!

It's all good, they're reluctant trained woth no Tiger Ace skills… Okay, so there's five of them, their backup is a few worn out training tanks and infantry…

Very nice!

They're still what, Armor 14 on the front? And since your chance to hit me is based on my skill at hiding, I'm still going to lose at least 5 Shermans to get my side shots.

Maybe if I take M36s for Corps support…

US arty is the bane of their existence, though…

Making some major progress at this point on the tanks and guns for the 510. Schwere Panzer Abteilung list. I'm now working on the ambush camouflage tanks – these will serve as the 1iC and 2iC for the list. As none of the King Tigers in the unit had any markings at this point, I can't use turret numbers to differentiate squads – fortunately they used three types of camouflage, so between that and popping open a few hatches I'm in good shape!

I'm 2/3rds of the way through the main colors on the hard edge camouflage for the King Tigers. First I did a base with AK Interactive Panzer Dark Yellow modulation:

Then I got back out the Panzer Putty, masked, and hit it with the dark green modulation:



The red brown is next once the green has dried enough to mask over.

I've also been hitting up the tanks of the training squad. I went with an AK interactive base coat as I found the Ammo of MIG wargaming set to be a shade brighter (I'm using shadow, light base, and highlight – and the MIG set has base, highlight, and shine). I may try the Ammo of MIG again, but I'll have to go lighter on the modulation coats…



I then hit these with the red-brown and olive green overspray from the Ammo of MIG set as I wanted a freehand camouflage for these:



I'm still working out the techniques with the new high-end Iwata, but the results are pretty good so far.

While I was at it I hit the Flak guns as well…



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