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Old 08-18-2006, 07:29 PM
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Default RE: King Tiger Paint

I am not aware of any solid color schemes for the King Tiger model that Tamiya do as when they were produced during WWII the German army schemes were the various three tone ones. However there may be some I am not aware of and I will chck my books later.

It is not too difficult to do a camo job though as they were mainly hard edged schemes so could be done with brush. Alternatively paint the tank in a dark yellow colour and then mask of the bits you want to leave that color. You can use stuff like blue tak or silly putty to mask as it goes round curves and corners easily. Then spray the second color of green. mask off some more and then spray the brown. Once all is dry the masking can be peeled off to reveal your camo. An advantage of doing it this way is you can use spray cans rather than an airbrush if you wish as you do not have to be accurate like you do with freehand airbrushing.

I hope this helps.

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Gorehound