Scipio Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 Hi folks, does someone know a good source for (historic) vehicel & aircraft camo patterns, preferebly already as seamless tiles? I'm asking for both moding resons and general interest. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warts 'n' all Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 Can't help with vehicles or aircraft. But, if anyone wants to mod buildings, this is a local factory "wearing" it's 1940 "camo". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 (edited) For buildings I'd have thought cardboard railway models might be an option? https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/846747167410847736/ Edited January 5, 2020 by Sgt.Squarehead 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scipio Posted January 5, 2020 Author Share Posted January 5, 2020 (edited) Thanks for this, but before the topic mutates to something different ;-): I'm really looking for vehicel camouflage Edited January 5, 2020 by Scipio 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warts 'n' all Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 3 hours ago, Scipio said: Thanks for this, but before the topic mutates to something different ;-): I'm really looking for vehicel camouflage Just a bit of leg pulling on my part. Although that factory did produce vehicles during WW2, mainly searchlight trucks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketman Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 8 hours ago, Scipio said: Thanks for this, but before the topic mutates to something different ;-): I'm really looking for vehicel camouflage How specific do the patterns need to be and of what size? This site covers all tanks and provide images of many camo versions. Maybe that's a start? https://tanks-encyclopedia.com 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM Stuff Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 On 1/4/2020 at 5:57 PM, Scipio said: does someone know a good source for (historic) vehicel & aircraft camo patterns... We can better help you, if you tell us witch country are your looking for ! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warts 'n' all Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 Nudges the Witchfinder General. Better put this one on the rack until we find out whether he meant "witch" or "which". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM Stuff Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 7 minutes ago, Warts 'n' all said: Nudges the Witchfinder General. Better put this one on the rack until we find out whether he meant "witch" or "which". unforgivable indeed ! my common sense of wanting to help others, will kill me one day ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warts 'n' all Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 9 hours ago, 3j2m7 said: unforgivable indeed ! my common sense of wanting to help others, will kill me one day ! Haha. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scipio Posted January 6, 2020 Author Share Posted January 6, 2020 Well well. Country and timeline: any Size is not that important, but I guess it should be at least 256 x 256 pixel. More important for me special project would be to have seamless tiles and somewhat realistic colors. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicky Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 I think you'll be hard pressed to find ready made seamless patterns but with google and using appropriate key words ( ww2 german tank camouflage patterns) you'll find various img sources, plus more references i.e. https://agtom.eu/en/content/25-pojazdy-niemieckie-z-ii-ws Along with paint colour charts etc. to begin trial and error with photoshop / gimp image editing to achieve what you're after. Funnily enough I'm working on a project using internet images as a source for different motorycles and stripping out their painted colour so any colour can be added. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougPhresh Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 Question about German paints - was the red primer supposed to be part of the camoflauge near the end of the war or was it the result of a supply chain breakdown? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicky Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 2 hours ago, DougPhresh said: Question about German paints - was the red primer supposed to be part of the camoflauge near the end of the war or was it the result of a supply chain breakdown? From the link above Late war camo With the war coming to an end, the economical situation of Nazi Germany was becoming more and more hopeless. Shortages of supplies and allied bombers hit factories hard, so less and less equipment was resupplied for retreating Wehrmacht. Tanks which were provided to frontline units were sometimes unfinished or scrapped from few destroyed or damaged vehicles. Sometimes turret, hull, Schürzen, engine and other components were taken from another vehicle each. In that case, no one bothered to unify camouflage of salvaged tank. Late version of Tiger I tank in yellow-brown camo. In 1944 the painting of German tanks was obverted. Olivegrün became the basic color, while Dünkelgelb became camouflaging one. Another new method, designed to save time and resources, was painted dark green camouflage over anti-corrosion primer hull red (Rotbraun RAL 8012). Sometimes because of lack of either materials or time, some parts of the tank were left in base primer color. Because of that, some late war vehicles, especially those defending German mainland and Berlin, were often painted in very strange way. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sequoia Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Not wanting to digress this thread too much but does camouflaging a building in that way actually fool anyone? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warts 'n' all Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 15 hours ago, Sequoia said: Not wanting to digress this thread too much but does camouflaging a building in that way actually fool anyone? A few bombs landed close to it during the Battle of Britain. But it survived the war, and is still standing. Although from what I have read most of the bombs that fell on my town were jettisoned by planes that didn't make it to London, Biggin Hill, Kenley, or whatever their actual target was. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 I don't know if I've seen any 'seamless tiles' for camou on the internet. Especially vehicle camou (you may find something for uniform camou patterns). The internet's chock full of WWII camou schemes, though. Its not an easy task to match up camou patterns for sides, top, front and back of CM vehicles But it can be done. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 (edited) Better quality AFV kits have multiple view camo diagrams as a rule these days and they are usually very well referenced (although their interpretations may not always be 100%). Edited January 11, 2020 by Sgt.Squarehead 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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