"Painting my Indo-China Panther?" Topic
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Thomas Nissvik | 13 Oct 2014 3:54 a.m. PST |
The French had a number of Panther tanks in operation after WW2 but none were ever sent to Indo-China as they were seen as to cumbersome and hard to keep running to be worth the effort. Now I want to buy the new plastic Panther from Warlord and I am looking for a reason. Any reason. Let's pretend that the French did indeed send some Panthers to Indo-China. How would they be painted? All suggestions appreciated, based in reality or just in "that would look cool" does not matter. |
kevin smoot | 13 Oct 2014 4:14 a.m. PST |
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skippy0001 | 13 Oct 2014 4:41 a.m. PST |
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Thomas Nissvik | 13 Oct 2014 6:59 a.m. PST |
That is lovely, Kevin. Can you tell me what book that is from? I will be painting at least some Chaffees for DBP and those are the best pics of the DBP tanks I've seen. |
kevin smoot | 13 Oct 2014 9:51 a.m. PST |
I found it doing a Google search |
Grignotage | 14 Oct 2014 12:00 p.m. PST |
I'd say a nice dark OD-green, with a suitably heroic name stenciled on the turret---and then weathered into oblivion with mud and dust. The French had some M-36s, mostly doing De Lattre line security duty I think…you could sneak a Panther into such a game, and count it as an M-36 if your gaming group isn't whimsical enough to let the alt-history pass. |
Etranger | 14 Oct 2014 11:13 p.m. PST |
Most of the French kit in Indochina was olive drab, the most notable exception being the 10 Chaffees at Dien Bien Phu. The 'French' Panthers look to have ended up in a dark colour, (probably OD) but there's no particular reason why they couldn't have used a DBP type scheme, or even retained a German scheme. Ambush pattern might be fun! link for some inspirations. |
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