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[Major Pain]

The model has been Alpha-tested, Beta-tested, VO'd on the skins and ready to rock & roll. 

Send me an email and it will come back for your evaluation.

[Deleted]

Thanks for sharing guys

[kellyshero]

Fantastic skin work Gagarin and thanks for the update Kevin

[gagarin]

New model of artillery tractor "Komsomolets".
Model: Talvisota / Kevin
Model landing force: MajorPain / Kevin
Texture: Gagarin

Model provided by the authors for of free use to all fans the game Blitzkrieg!

Link to the archive -  www.sendspace.com/file/rgw5kv

 

[fritzlang]

The Sdkfz 250/3 of Mazka, Kevin and Gagarin, traveling in Mission Kursk African front, try to make the vehicles called Adler and Igel. Gracias a los tres

[ricz]

Wow....She's a bute!!

[Jagged Steel]

Mar 29, 2013 0:58:27 GMT 1 ricz said:

Wow....She's a bute!!

Nah, this is a beute !!




Speaking of which, has a good one of these been made?

The skin does look good frits, although the actual GREIF was factory dunkelgelb with sprayed green camo.

[fritzlang]

Depends on photo reference taken, the color originalr is gray tank with lines of yellow ocher or other dust and desert sand covering the original paint scheme. The scale of the original game obscures the details

[fritzlang]

Adler, Greif and Igel + Erwin Rommel in Mision Kursk

[Jagged Steel]

Mar 29, 2013 9:27:24 GMT 1 fritzlang said:

Depends on photo reference taken, the color originalr is gray tank with lines of yellow ocher or other dust and desert sand covering the original paint scheme. The scale of the original game obscures the details

In this rare early war color photo you can clearly see that the original basecoat was indeed dunkelgelb.



Seriously though, there are lots of photos of GREIF (although I am not aware of any color ones) and they all show a light basecoat (could only be dunkelgelb) with a dark camo (probably graugrun) pattern sprayed on.



In these photos you can see that there is definitely a camo pattern, and for reference the base color is as light or lighter than DAK uniforms. I read up a bit about analyzing the colors from WW2 black and white photos and when compared to a spectrum with a computer the only colors the lighter one could be are either dunkelgelb or a really light, bright, pink, and I am pretty sure the DAK  were not painting vehicles pink, although the British actually did use a pink color in some of their disruptive camo patterns.





Tamiya, Italeri , and Airfix seem to agree on the color scheme. These companies tend to do their homework, as you can see by the exact reproduction of the camo pattern when compared to the historical photos.

Your skins look fine and I am not trying to be overly critical, but if you are going through the trouble of making specific vehicles with specific insignia then you might as well also paint them the right colors as well.

[fritzlang]

As you can see in this photo, the camouflage pattern of the vehicle has almost disappeared by the effect of dust and sun.
given the scale of the game, it is almost impossible to represent this effect in a vehicle so small.
is much better synthesize the work thinking about the game, not an exhibition of models.
Many of the skins that are made to the game have an excess of detail that detracts from the final result,
Do not rely too much on what manufacturers make models, because their products are often full of errors.
I mount the Tamiya model as a child and had to do a great job in improving it.
Since arriving in afrika until 42 the Germans used basically these colors to camouflage their vehicles.
This vehicle was used by Rommel in year 42 in Tobruk

• RAL 7021 Schwarzgrau

• RAL 7027 Sandgrau

• RAL 8020 Gelbbraun

• RAL 8000 Gelbbraun o Grünbraun

• RAL 7008 Graugrün (o Khakibraun)

[Jagged Steel]

That photo shows exactly what I was saying. The  photo you posted is an example of overexposure in bright sunlight taken in action from a moving vehicle which tends to make everything look  the same color, and even so you can still see the camo pattern. You can also clearly see that the base color is not green or brown or grey- it is almost white in direct sunlight- which means it is dunkelgelb. Look at all of the good photos of GREIF and you can clearly see the paint scheme. Especially look at the road wheels- there is no way those are any color other than Dunkelgelb. Now, that being said, the official colors recommended for DAK in that period were of a gelbbraun , which is misleading- this color was not "brown" - it was almost exactly the same color as dunkelgelb. Very light yellowish brown or a brownish yellow- take your pick, that is what GREIF was painted, and then had a dark color camo pattern freehand sprayed.



You are quite free to paint your units whatever color scheme you like,
but that certainly does not make them historically accurate, especially
when there are dozens of photos of the exact vehicle being reproduced.

[fritzlang]

I will not keep writing that has not understood anything, I'm not saying that the outline of the vehicle is not as you say, I'm saying that I have adapted the effect of climate to a very small car to match the scale of the game .
I'm a professional photographer for many years and know how to take pictures in the desert and the influence of the sun and the light in the black and white film.
He served in the Army in desert areas or sub Mediterranean desert and know first hand how it affects the climate in the vehicle.
If you do not like the model or the way I work because I feel sorry for you

[Jagged Steel]

Mar 29, 2013 18:15:25 GMT 1 fritzlang said:

Relax. Seriously. If you want to pretend that GREIF was not painted with a camo sceme you can, but it will not change the fact that all of the historical photos show that it was indeed painted a very light color with a dark camo pattern sprayed on.

And please: keep the "I feel sorry for you" nonsense out of here, that is not called for.

[Deleted]

Relax guys, please, keep it nice