WWII German armour camo - again!

[Wouter]

And the tow cable. The shovel looks like it has some dark yellow on it, so it was probably sprayed along as well.

Always hard to see on the photos but DY on the shovel would be rather odd. That color was factory applied and I don't really think tools were in place when the armor received it's basecoat. Just my two cents ^^

Cheers

[Gern]

Some useful stuff here guys, thanks. Just a quick check to make sure I got it OK:

1) No overspray.
2) No paint on guns or periscopes.
3) Optional camo paint colours (no basecoat) on tools.
4) Camo pattern in green, brown or both over dark yellow to suit myself.

[Guest]

Always hard to see on the photos but DY on the shovel would be rather odd. That color was factory applied and I don't really think tools were in place when the armor received it's basecoat. Just my two cents ^^

What colour were German pioneer tools anyway? American ones were painted black (metal) and OD (wood), but were German ones left in natural colours? If so then I probably confused the natural wood colour with dark yellow paint.

[Wouter]

Now that's a good question, as far as I'm aware the wooden handles weren't painted, same for the bakelite handles of the cutters. But can't say much of use about the metal parts though.

Cheers

[langy71]

Another thing to help here is that the actual colours the factory supplied would vary from vehicle to vehicle,

The extra colours..(brown/green) would be supplied as a 'paste' to which the crew would add a thinning agent to create the 'liquid paint',
the thinning agent could be anything the crew could get their hands on, water, diesel, petrol, ...etc etc, this would then create some very different finishes / opacity levels to the dried paint,
add this to the fact that the crews generally painted the cam pattern to a 'guide' supplied from the factory/ paint supplier, and you could see some pretty different looking cam patterns between vehicles.