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by aferguson » Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:01 am
actually, the S1 hanomag has a green overspray on the grey, which really makes it post mid '43, when the three colour system came into being. Initially many grey vehicles were just given a quick paint job of whatever of the new colours was available. In the case of the S1 Hanomag, it would have been a green pattern over the grey base coat. This would also confine it to the Russian front as nothing much was going on in the west at that time and by Normandy all vehicles had been repainted in dark yellow base; although it could've been seen in Italy in '43 too, i guess.
The Stuka zu fuss has the ambush scheme, as Ski noted, which places in post July '44. Most ambush painted vehicles were seen in the West, although some were also in the East...the two fronts were getting kinda close together by that point...heh. The problem is that very few Stuka zu fuss's served in the West. The vast majority of them were on the Eastern front, where the ambush scheme is not terribly representative. If you want to make a more representative Eastern front zu fuss, take the rockets off the ambush halftrack and put them on either the S1 grey/green one or the S2 'white 13'...this is very easy to do. That also solves the problem of the missing front machine gun of the ambush zu fuss. You can then use the ambush zu fuss for other things, like towing a repainted pak 40, troop carrier, custom drilling etc etc etc.
i never met an airplane i didn't like...
