re: From the Model Desk of Spaceman Spiff: 1/35 WWII German Soldier

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One caveat to all this. Whittmann’s 101st also operated for a time along with the Wehrmacht Panzer Lehr Div. while in Normandy. Most of their infantry wore the standard field gray uniform of your average German soldier. Though some did wear Splittertarnmuster…

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Thanks! I might have to do that. Damn that’s a bit confusing to figure out

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Thanks! I might have to do that. Damn that’s a bit confusing to figure out

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Happy to help. The good thing about the variety in infantry field uniforms, particularly in the Waffen SS, is that you just about can’t go wrong no matter which pattern you choose.

The same is even more true for German armored, and even unarmored, vehicles. While the poor foot-slogging landsers and Panzergrenadiera had a handful of camouflage patterns to chose from, the crews of German vehicles usually applied their own camouflage for most of the war with the only limitation being color.

From the start of the war until early 1943, German vehicles left the factory painted Dunkelgrau. And even during that period it was not uncommon for units to apply variations of usually brown to break up the vehicle silhouette. It was in Feb. 1943 that vehicles started being painted in a base of Dunkelgelb. Units would then add their own camouflage patterns in the field using Olivgrün and Rotbraun in whatever pattern the unit commander, sometimes as low as battalion level, decided they wanted. The only limitation being was their imagination. Then in August 1944, vehicles began leaving the factory with camouflage already painted on. Which pattern a vehicle received depended on which factory it was built and which paints were available at the time. And by that stage of the war, some paints, particularly Rotbraun was in short supply. Some factories began omitting this color while others substituted more reddish paints instead.

One of the best diorama builders I've ever seen is a guy with a YouTube channel called Scale Model Craft. He is just great a building to scale and super creative when doing it.

Check him out, he gives a bunch of tips and tricks in livestreams and such and has a sizeable back catalog.

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One of the best diorama builders I've ever seen is a guy with a YouTube channel called Scale Model Craft. He is just great a building to scale and super creative when doing it.

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Thanks for the heads up! I watch a lot of you tubers (that’s how I learned a lot of my tricks) but haven’t seen this one. Added!

Has to be Hans.