Late War Panther Paint ???

metalwar · Post by **metalwar** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 11:51 am

Would it be possible to have seen a late model Panther in the dark grren base color??

GooglyDoogly · Post by **GooglyDoogly** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:14 pm

Very possible, since it was ordered by the OKH that the base coat on tanks be dunkelgrun, with rotbraun and dunkelgelb for camo.

exether_mega · Post by **exether_mega** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:22 pm

in the late days war, everything was possible even tanks only wearing anti-rust color or even panzer grey or mixed civilian paints.

phil

pickelhaube · Post by **pickelhaube** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:57 am

I have not seen anything in green except a paper concept flack gun. That was in a AJ press book. Like the Mega said about the primer paint alot of them went out in red primer only and the soldats did some kind of camo on that base. I have a modeling book and they have a late war Tiger II with dk green paint . But a Panther with dk green I am not sure. Again anything may have been possible in the last few weeks of the war.

Post by **aferguson** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 5:18 am

dark green on a panther....for sure. A while back i saw a colour picture from a link given on missing-lynx, of an overall dark green panther. Was a time that everyone thought the germans went back to dark panzer grey at the end of the war but as it turns out it was dark green, not dark grey. But the reason for the dark green base coat was the same.....to hide the tank in the shadows of buildings.

pickelhaube · Post by **pickelhaube** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 3:41 pm

aferguson wrote:dark green on a panther....for sure. A while back i saw a colour picture from a link given on missing-lynx, of an overall dark green panther. Was a time that everyone thought the germans went back to dark panzer grey at the end of the war but as it turns out it was dark green, not dark grey. But the reason for the dark green base coat was the same.....to hide the tank in the shadows of buildings.

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exether_mega · Post by **exether_mega** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 3:48 pm

aferguson wrote:dark green on a panther....for sure. A while back i saw a colour picture from a link given on missing-lynx, of an overall dark green panther. Was a time that everyone thought the germans went back to dark panzer grey at the end of the war but as it turns out it was dark green, not dark grey. But the reason for the dark green base coat was the same.....to hide the tank in the shadows of buildings.

phil

Post by **aferguson** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:14 pm

what's the confusion?

pickelhaube · Post by **pickelhaube** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:24 pm

aferguson wrote:dark green on a panther....for sure. A while back i saw a colour picture from a link given on missing-lynx, of an overall dark green panther. Was a time that everyone thought the germans went back to dark panzer grey at the end of the war but as it turns out it was dark green, not dark grey. But the reason for the dark green base coat was the same.....to hide the tank in the shadows of buildings.

This is something that I never ever heard about. But I have seen a fictious ack ack Panther in Dk Green in AJ Press's Panther book but NO late war Panther. I could be wrong but......................

exether_mega · Post by **exether_mega** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:55 pm

aferguson wrote:what's the confusion?

I mean I know germans were realy advanced in camo technics but never heard they had any plan about urban camo. I don't know if the use of dark green was realy intended to fade in the buildings shadows.

phil