Both the figures and the tanks look great. I certainly would not repaint them. 

A light wash on the tanks perhaps if your really that bothered, and have too much time on your hands.



 

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Alright, I've got no idea if this could be a plausible camouflage pattern. But I had to spend some time learning how to dab a camouflage pattern with soft edges with a paintbrush, but I'm confident that it's getting better.


What do you guys think? Or shall we go for the 3rd round?

No point in asking yours truly about the camo' pattern, Atte.

They look great to me, though. 

Cheers - Phil

Phil, German crews were issued paint, diluted with petrol , and applied it themselve, presumably with pattern books, but no two would be identical.

Thanks Phil!

Wanted to provide you guys a better view of the Panzer IV, in a better lightning. As I seem to get really saturated pictures depending on where I am in the house.

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I did also make the yellow "pop" a bit more.

Super

 

Wow, a real perfectionist!

Think they were better before. 



Kidding!

Quote from: ianrs54 on 17 January 2020, 04:41:21 PM
Phil, German crews were issued paint, diluted with petrol , and applied it themselve, presumably with pattern books, but no two would be identical.

An interesting fact, Ian. 

Something that I hadn't even considered, re the camo'.

Cheers - Phil

Excellent Noktu. 

As Ian says, pattern was very random. Applicators could be anything mop, broom, rags, paintbrush, or occasionally sprayed on.

Just imagine , bored p*ssed off tankie, not fed or slept properly for days, given a couple of pots of paint and then asked to camouflage his tank.

They also used water if fuel was scarce.

Hilfe!

And thank you gentlemen!

I wasn't impressed with my 2nd try as the colours were rather futuristic on the panzers, so painted these panzers over for the 4th time now and ended up with this.

As this might be more realistic representation of the colours used back in the day, I just feel like I never get it quite right. Should I do this but with the bigger botches of colour used in the previous iteration shown here?

And trust me, I'll keep doing this until I get it right.


EDIT1: Should I drybrush this a bit more to make the colours a tad bit more subtle?

EDIT2: Pendraken models are über. As mentioned these have been painted over for the 4th time without any detail gone missing, and I've been rather generous with the paint.

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Well in action tanks are lugging 2 tonnes of dust and mud....

They've all looked great, as far as I'm concerned. 

Cheers - Phil.

Quote from: Techno on 22 January 2020, 05:52:12 PM
They've all looked great, as far as I'm concerned.  

Yep!

They look good to me too.

I accept that most tanks, most of the time would be somewhat grubby but I prefer my miniature vehicles clean.

Thank you guys,

Okay, I did a heavy drybrush on these tanks to make the colours blend in a bit more. It looks pretty nice from a distance, made the tank pop up a bit more instead of making it hard to look at because of the heavy camouflage.

Think it went better or for worse? Going to clean the tracks from the drybrushing of course.

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This looks good to me. Whatever you do, the camouflage does make them look rather blobby on the table, as it is hard to make out the shape. Naturally the camo has done its job .

These past weeks I've been trying to nail the dunkelgelb on this scale but to no success. Therefore I decided it'd be better to just go gray with the tanks.

Here's a couple of shots from the so far finished germans. Will take new pictures tomorrow in a better lightning.


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They look great, but it looks to me like you have nailed the dunkelgelb on your guns.