Here's another:
Do you mean this photo?
From German Army Uniform and Insignia , Brian L Davis , isbn 00 85368 068 xThe other photo you linked to is:—
This one is wearing the assault artillery uniform, with red artillery piping, not pink armour piping. You can tell it’s field grey by the black patches on the lapels. Not sure why he’s wearing tanker’s badges, though — my knowledge of German insignia isn’t that great Trying to look up these details turns up this photo as well, captioned as being on the Eastern Front. IOW, not Africa I’d be surprised to see tankers in Africa wearing StuG uniforms, since it’s much more likely for them to have traded in their heavy black woolen uniforms for lightweight olive green cotton ones in the climate there.
Do you mean that photo is in that book, or that you got the uniform/unit information from that book and applied it to this photo yourself?From German Army Uniform and Insignia , Brian L Davis , isbn 00 85368 068 x
Is it coloured in or is this an original colour photo? I find it very hard to tell, and kind of assumed the latter, which is why I pointed out the red piping (if I’d taken it as a coloured-in photo I wouldn’t have bothered with that, instead pointing that out). You could well be right in thinking it’s coloured in, though.I wonder if above picture has been colour corrected incorrectly.
This leads me to believe the photo has been coloured in, and the person who did it used a black background when it should have been green (since the green would appear darker than the field grey of the uniform in a black and white photo, the assumption that it’s a black tanker’s patch is easy to make, I think).There is no red outlined black patch with skull described , only a red outlined , green background , with skull , for assault artillery
The rectangular things in front of the hatches are vision flaps, the round ones behind the hatches are pistol ports.If there was a flat surface I'd have tried to apply the decals behind the hatches, but there's quite a lot of moulded detail there (pistol ports, ventilators?)
A simple solution is to cut the decals to fit. Easy with a sharp knife if you do it before soaking them off the backing paper.Another problem/mistake though - the balkankreuz should be in the middle of the side panels, just where the barrel cleaning rods are on one side, and the aerial support on the other side. I might leave them off, or squeeze them onto the side of the toolbox at the rear of the turret.
It would depend on when they were added: before or after the tank got its sand colour? I’d say after would be more likely, and it’s easier to excuse than painting them in the tank colour and then not being able to find any evidence that this ever actually happened.I've quite a few track links left over, can't decide whether to fit them as additional armour or not. If I do, should they be painted to match the tanks (dunkelgelb) or to match the running tracks, which is what I've done with the spare links carried on the hull side. I'm thinking that as additional armour, they'd be recovered from damaged tanks, welded on, and so would be painted to match the tank. Any thoughts on this?
Thanks Steve. That 4th photo doesn't seem to show the balkankreuz, I think I'll leave them off. As for the tracks, I'm sure you're right, and there wouldn't have been much if any repainting in the field, so I'll have to weather them separately and add them later.
The rectangular things in front of the hatches are vision flaps, the round ones behind the hatches are pistol ports.
Thanks Jakko.
If only it was that simple... The aerial rest is about the same thickness as the horizontal arm of the cross, so there would be a gap between the horizontal and the vertical arms. Yes, I could paint them in, but access is tricky. See Steve's photo above.A simple solution is to cut the decals to fit. Easy with a sharp knife if you do it before soaking them off the backing paper.
Balkenkreuz German for “beam-cross”, as in a cross made of rectangles, and nothing to do with the Balkans.balkankreuz
So just cut out that bit — you can measure the size of the gap needed fairly well, and even though I said it’s best to cut before soaking the decals off the paper, you can still cut them afterward too. Pressing down on them with a sharp knife (while the decal is back on the paper) usually works well.If only it was that simple... The aerial rest is about the same thickness as the horizontal arm of the cross, so there would be a gap between the horizontal and the vertical arms.
Thanks.Balkenkreuz German for “beam-cross”, as in a cross made of rectangles, and nothing to do with the Balkans.
Do you mean they'd have let the aerial support obscure the horizontal of the cross?So just cut out that bit — you can measure the size of the gap needed fairly well, and even though I said it’s best to cut before soaking the decals off the paper, you can still cut them afterward too.
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