RE: help with paint
Do you have reference pics of those King Tigers that had no camo color near the end of the war? Even the first five King Tigers ever built (your color plate for instance) that were assigned to the Pz. Kop. 316 had some sort of crew-applied camouflage.
I don't there there ever was a non-camouflaged King Tiger. With constant air threats, camo is kind of a necessity.