Reply To: Deciding how to paint German WW2 Vehicles

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German camouflage varied a lot over the war, so the first question is what year you’re going for.

Some of it was dictated by the theater, such as the grey colour being replaced by yellow for the DAK. But a lot of it was up to the individual units and what supplies they had.

Also, don’t forget that a lot of the pictures we have are black and white, which makes it difficult to figure out exactly what’s going on with individual vehicles.

For a Weird War type paint-job, circa 1946 or 1947, you could potentially go with two variations:

The first is one where all the Germans had left were ad-hoc units, scraped together from whatever men and materials were available. In other words: everything goes and some tanks might be in simply red or yellow basecoat without unit numbers or insignia.

The second is a more structured approach where the Germans aren’t as hard pressed. In this case you might see tanks with a more uniform factory applied camouflage (as the Germans did do towards the end of the war) and with unit numbers and insignia clearly visible. This would likely be a version of the ambush or octopus schemes, though variations would certainly still be possible due to refits and repaints in the field.