Earl Grey Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 PzIVJ from the final production run seen somwhere in Austria, May 1945. The camouflage pattern is the so-called 'Winter 1945' pattern, although there aren't many sources to verify this. Based on MikeyD's PanzerIV mod with a number of corrections and improvements. It's not as perfect as I'd like it to be, but the best that can be done with the actual texture setup. Available at CMMODS. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David I Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 Earl, So that's a winter pattern? I gather that that is a red primer on the vehicle and that the yellow and white were painted in the field? You do find the most interesting patterns. A picture perhaps? David 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earl Grey Posted October 23, 2007 Author Share Posted October 23, 2007 Well, I don't know why they called it that - as far as I know it was a transitional pattern introduced in winter 1944/45 and maybe some authors THOUGHT it was a winter pattern. It's RAL7028 (Dunkelgelb) outlined with RAL9002 (Weiß) on a RAl8012 (Oxidrot) primer. A real name I don't have, although it can be found on on different vehicles. I'll try to find a photograph. P.S.: I explicitely SEARCH for these extraordinary patterns - that's the fun part of German WW2 armor! [ October 22, 2007, 09:51 PM: Message edited by: Earl Grey ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aragorn2002 Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Very interesting camo pattern. Looks great, thank you! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philippe Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 The mod looks great. The camo pattern looks ugly as sin. But totally convincing and absolutely fascinating. The visual confusion it creates reminds me of what happens when you look at ships painted in razzle-dazzle camouflage. And that's probably why they made it that way -- though one of the side benefits of razzle-dazle is that it makes it much harder to figure out the other ship's heading from looking at it, which greatly increases the chances that your torpedo will miss. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earl Grey Posted October 24, 2007 Author Share Posted October 24, 2007 Well, I have to asdmit I cannot find a photograph, but I can at least cite my source for it: 'Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf.G, H and J 1942-45' from Osprey Publishing. Therein is stated that for the winter of 1944/45 a number of modifications was made to the camouflage pattern (see p.44-45). I will, nonetheless, investigate further on this information. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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