blitzkrieg65

Hello,

I have sat down with my painter Mike S. and he has agreed to offer a Tank painting special through January 20th.

He will do weather and most camo patterns for this price, you can buy the tank and get it painted for this price or send us your!

Here are a few examples of his work...

The Blitz

blitzkrieg65

More tanks, more pics

pattoncommander

Phil, Mike should repaint the fire extinguishers...US are red and carried inside. Wehrmacht issue are grey.

Flyn Chris

They look very nice Phil and I recoginize one of them

blitzkrieg65

Hey Chris,

That is his tank, yours is painted the same way, but with some cool weathering, I just picked it up a few days ago!



Pattoncommander you have me trained well, that is the first thing I told him too,,,


The Blitz

swathdiver

Grey until February '43 when they switched to Dunkelgelb (RAL 7028).

For historical accuracy the Ambush pattern should have hard-edged disruptive colors and dots.

harleridr

Hi Blitz,
I am interested in the last tank pictured. Who makes the Model of the tank? Are you stocking it?
Harle

Rex Ross

[quote]ORIGINAL: pattoncommander

Phil, Mike should repaint the fire extinguishers...US are red and carried inside. Wehrmacht issue are grey.

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[quote]ORIGINAL: swathdiver

Grey until February '43 when they switched to Dunkelgelb (RAL 7028).

For historical accuracy the Ambush pattern should have hard-edged disruptive colors and dots.


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pattoncommander, swathdiver........There is no question that your comments about historical accuracy are correct. However, as we all know, anything is possible in wartime, and field expediency happens all of the time. I have discovered a previously unknown source of information which explains the circumstances at issue here..............

According to the testimony of an eye witness,
During a battle, a Sherman tank crew ran out of main gun ammunition and fired at the German tank with it's .30 caliber machine gun. This hit the fire extinguisher and damaged it. The Panzer Commander thought that this was an inconsiderate and rude thing to do. In a rage, he fired at the Sherman, and caused it to become non-operational. The Sherman crew escaped, and the Panzer crew took the Sherman fire extinguisher to replace the one that was damaged. They also took the K rations, Lucky Strike cigarettes, Hershey bars and silk stockings that were left behind by the GIs. Looting in battle sometimes happens!

The explanation for the soft edge ambush paint scheme remains a mystery. I couldn't find a reason for that when I Googled Wikipedia.

...............and that's the way it was.............

I hope this helps................

(I just couldn't resist)

fynsdad

I think I might build and paint up a panzer commander smoking lucky strikes and eating a hershey bar while wearing stockings!!!
Frank

swathdiver

Hi Rex,

During combat anything is possible. A couple of years ago on Missing-Lynx there was an excellent thread on German fire extinguishers. They too had red painted ones for soft-skinned and light armored vehicles like half-tracks but they were stowed internally and smaller than the style modelled for the Tiger.

[link=http://www.network54.com/Forum/47207/thread/1163250742/external+fire+extingushers.]Missing-Lynx[/link]

[link=http://infopanzer.atspace.com/datos.htm]"Extintores" [/link]

Here's a pic of the Ambush Pattern camouflage with its hard edges. Whoever the "genious" was who ordered this put into use saved a lot of Allied lives! It's simply awful, more like a fancy high recognition scheme!

Panther G

That is a PzIV conversion. You need the PzIV and you need to buy the conversion kit too build that Panzerjagder IV. I think Phil has the kits, if not Welshdragon models also has them, sometimes. Depending on what he has instock.

Panther G

If you are talking about the White Tiger that is an HL with the custom paint job Phil is advertising here.

blitzkrieg65

Hello Harle,

We build & paint to order most of the time, everytime I make a few custom paint jobs they just sit here so,, I wait for the request.

Here is a whole post on the tank you where looking at...

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_10...m.htm#10196643


Its good to see Swathdiver back on the forum too.. Hey James if you still have your gear I may just send you some motors to get some data on them?

The Blitz

swathdiver

Merry Christmas Phil!

Funny you should ask, I was just surfing the net to check out the latest and greatest in motors!

Still have my Watts Up Meter and 3 sets of different gearboxes that can be used for testing. Just used my trusty tachometer the other day to get the Pershing's gearboxes turning within 6 rpms of each other too.

Send me an e-mail when you get a chance.

James

blitzkrieg65

Happy New Year James,

I have sent the motors to you, some of the latest Motors that have came out from suppliers, the Mato 3:1 brass gearbox moto, the Mato King Tiger brass gearbox motor, the Asiatam 3:1 gearbox motor, the silver can Heng long motor & of couse my 400's & 480's


Hey All the Airbrush paint deal is extended until the end of February! Here is a Camo Tiger 1 he did, and I will get some pics of two other Tigers he did, one is the Furman tank!

The Blitz