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Came a cross this tiger 1 color picture on http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6608/604 ... 9a0bd4_XXL
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Re: Colour photos of Axis Panzers in WW II
This Picture was posted on the network54.com forum.
Comes from http://einestages.spiegel.de/external/S ... /l0/F.html
Comes from http://einestages.spiegel.de/external/S ... /l0/F.html
Re: Colour photos of Axis Panzers in WW II
Hi All
I'm curious on which forums this interesting picture will show up.
I only know this pictures as a small blurry picture, it gave the impression it was cut out of a ww2 color movie.
But this ain't the case.
If you click on the link below you get a mutch BIGER pictures ( i modified it a little with a photo program ) .
Enjoy.
http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/3887 ... 012pic.jpg
Cheers
The picture came from this link.
http://www.lakenheath.af.mil/shared/med ... 63-001.jpg
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I'm curious on which forums this interesting picture will show up.
I only know this pictures as a small blurry picture, it gave the impression it was cut out of a ww2 color movie.
But this ain't the case.
If you click on the link below you get a mutch BIGER pictures ( i modified it a little with a photo program ) .
Enjoy.
http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/3887 ... 012pic.jpg
Cheers
The picture came from this link.
http://www.lakenheath.af.mil/shared/med ... 63-001.jpg
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Re: Colour photos of Axis Panzers in WW II
Nice pics you've sent us. Thanks!
Juha-Pekka
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Re: Colour photos of Axis Panzers in WW II
[i]Hello,thanks for pics.Do you know where is the semovente?Yes Tunisia,but exactly where location? It's in good conditions?Bye [/i]
Hi.
Sorry that I couldn't answer this 5 years ago, but here's the place where the Semovente wreck was left;
http://tiger1.info/event/To-Sidi-Nsir
David
Hi.
Sorry that I couldn't answer this 5 years ago, but here's the place where the Semovente wreck was left;
http://tiger1.info/event/To-Sidi-Nsir
David
Re: Colour photos of Axis Panzers in WW II
HC8604 the panther photo is real but the hetzer photo is from a reenactment .The hetzer in the photo is a G10 from Switzerland.The last photo is a panzer in the Jacque Littlefield collection in Portola California USA.
Re: Colour photos of Axis Panzers in WW II
A nice coulor picture of a Horch Sanka, Afrika korps ( From E-bay )
Re: Colour photos of Axis Panzers in WW II
Painted pink?
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Re: Colour photos of Axis Panzers in WW II
I guess it's Agfa film effect.
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Piotr Mikołajski
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Re: Colour photos of Axis Panzers in WW II
Alternatively guess that DAK (chronically short of paint, among other things) might have utilized captured stocks of LRDG Desert Pink.
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I don't think that they could capture stocks of LRDG with sufficient amount of paint. If looking for alternatives, I would look for Italian paints or aviation ones, Luftwaffe or RAF. But I don't remember if any colour had such shade.
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Re: Colour photos of Axis Panzers in WW II
Very happy with this pic of a Horch ambulance !
Please don't think the color is not german ! This apricot-sand color is one of the typical colors of the DAK. Many ammo steel containers for African theather of operation were painted this color.
http://wehrmachts.kisten.free.fr/10cmlfh18_metal_2.htm
http://wehrmachts.kisten.free.fr/150mm_sfh18_metal.htm
Can be found also on some Flak 41 containers.
And uniforms from Luftwaffe and Ramcke also have this shade.
Cheers
Eric
PS: For modellers the best match is Humbrol HM2 Afrika Korps Desert Yellow (No equivalent today). 25 years ago, I thought that this color was totally wrong. I have change my opinion. No matter what modellers will think, there is so much to be said that will not be believed... that I have other things to do.
Please don't think the color is not german ! This apricot-sand color is one of the typical colors of the DAK. Many ammo steel containers for African theather of operation were painted this color.
http://wehrmachts.kisten.free.fr/10cmlfh18_metal_2.htm
http://wehrmachts.kisten.free.fr/150mm_sfh18_metal.htm
Can be found also on some Flak 41 containers.
And uniforms from Luftwaffe and Ramcke also have this shade.
Cheers
Eric
PS: For modellers the best match is Humbrol HM2 Afrika Korps Desert Yellow (No equivalent today). 25 years ago, I thought that this color was totally wrong. I have change my opinion. No matter what modellers will think, there is so much to be said that will not be believed... that I have other things to do.
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Re: Colour photos of Axis Panzers in WW II
Hi Eric,
And thanks for the explanation.
Based on the colour photos I've seen rather unusual to see a DAK vehicle painted in that shade though.
Markus
And thanks for the explanation.
Based on the colour photos I've seen rather unusual to see a DAK vehicle painted in that shade though.
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I'm afraid that disscussion about shade of camouflage colour - when all we have is one colour photo with clearly visible red shift (look on red crosses) and colour photos of equipment painted 70 years ago - can be as interesting as can be fruitless.
Personally I would be more than happy with serious scientific analysis of all available samples of Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht paints. It could be the best source of knowledge about colours and we could be able to tell if such "strange" colours were locally mixed, were from captured stocks or maybe were aviation paints. It could be possible too that is was standard colour with unusual shade coming from weathering or anything else.
Personally I would be more than happy with serious scientific analysis of all available samples of Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht paints. It could be the best source of knowledge about colours and we could be able to tell if such "strange" colours were locally mixed, were from captured stocks or maybe were aviation paints. It could be possible too that is was standard colour with unusual shade coming from weathering or anything else.
Best regards,
Piotr Mikołajski
Piotr Mikołajski
Re: Colour photos of Axis Panzers in WW II
However the desert sand and top canvas don't appear especially pink and since camo paint tends to be matte reflections probably wouldn't mislead much. Plus there's the pink & gray lorry in the background to the right.Piotr Mikołajski wrote:I'm afraid that disscussion about shade of camouflage colour - when all we have is one colour photo with clearly visible red shift (look on red crosses) and colour photos of equipment painted 70 years ago - can be as interesting as can be fruitless.
Re: aviation paint there were the pink PR Spitfires.Piotr Mikołajski wrote:Personally I would be more than happy with serious scientific analysis of all available samples of Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht paints. It could be the best source of knowledge about colours and we could be able to tell if such "strange" colours were locally mixed, were from captured stocks or maybe were aviation paints.
Re: weathering I think I see glimpses of older sand shade colour in the rear wing and lower rear fuselage edges, the sort of places where one would expect see weathering. Plus the headlights appear to me partly sand-coloured,Piotr Mikołajski wrote:It could be possible too that is was standard colour with unusual shade coming from weathering or anything else.
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