MikeyD Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 Continuing my push to rework my old CMBB Stug Pack for CMAK: 3-color camou StuH42 assault howitzer (middle version) At our favorite site: www.cmmods.com Just like my earlier reworked Stugs, this mod's got improved running gear, a full coat of Zimmerit anti-magnetic paste, and armor skirts with the correct number of panels (4 instead of 5). I've been trying some new camouflage techniques lately and this mod has a dark and menacing brown with green scheme. Also, like the StuG IIIG early-mid I recently uploaded, this mod gives you a choice of full or partial side-skirts, or just the hanger hardware. Here's the screenshot: http://www.cmmods.com/web/CMAKMods.nsf/d108908febc2d41c85256c5f005fd337/09283D9323B53DE785256E7C004F1AE2/$File/STUH42_MID.JPG [ April 20, 2004, 11:50 AM: Message edited by: MikeyD ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Radley Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 Wow! That's sexy, and by sexy, I mean totally sweet! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzman Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 Very nice, as always Mikey. Might want to fix that link to CMMods though... you put a ',' in the address rather than a '.' 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeT Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 MikeyD, quick question, was the German ambush camo pattern common in Italy? MikeT 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted April 20, 2004 Author Share Posted April 20, 2004 Ooops! I just fixed that URL. I must have a mental block on that darned address. That's the second time this month I've misspelled that thing in a posting, and I had to retype it three times to correct it this time around! The correct URL is cowmods, right? --- About that camou pattern in Italy, while working on it I was thinking of that famous series of photos of German soldiers in the rain marching past the disabled Elefant, and the mean looking Panther, and a scruffy looking Stug. If memory serves all the vehicles in the photos had a 3-tone camou scheme not unlike my StuH42. It's my impression that the deeper it got into the muddy/rainy Italian winter the more the sunny yellow panzers gave way to darker camou panzers. [ April 20, 2004, 12:02 PM: Message edited by: MikeyD ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junk2drive Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 and for those people playing nw europe with cmak, it is nice to have camo schemes for that area too. thanks mikey 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patboy Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 Originally posted by MikeT: MikeyD, quick question, was the German ambush camo pattern common in Italy? MikeT I think ambush camo was used only in France, Ardennes battle and Germany. Pat 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewTF Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 Supercool, as always! :cool: I dig the camouflage pattern. Can't wait to get home and play with it! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vergeltungswaffe Posted April 21, 2004 Share Posted April 21, 2004 Gorgeous, Mike. Actual use be damned. Give me a beautiful ambush schemed AFV anytime. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeT Posted April 21, 2004 Share Posted April 21, 2004 On the ambush schemes, I just got home and checked a couple of books. It does seem that the ambush scheme was France 1944 only, so sad it is my favorite. Italian schemes seem to be yellow (gelb) base with either green or red-brown overspray. Oh, MIkeyD, beautiful work, as always. MikeT 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zukkov Posted April 21, 2004 Share Posted April 21, 2004 great mod MD! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Axe_ Posted April 21, 2004 Share Posted April 21, 2004 Originally posted by Boo Radley: Wow! That's sexy, and by sexy, I mean totally sweet! I'm not sure what fetish AFV-lusting falls under but one thing is clear -- you need professional help. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted April 21, 2004 Author Share Posted April 21, 2004 There's a difference between 'ambush' camou (aka: my ambush Hetzer from a couple weeks back) and simple 3-tone camou. Ambush was usually factory applied, looked rather consistent vehicle-to-vehicle, was usually hard-edged, and involved 'dapple' spots of dark-on-light and light-on-dark. If ambush camou showed up in Italy it was no doubt on a factory-painted replacement vehicle shiped to the front sometime after mid-44. 3-tone camou is sometimes factory applied, sometimes applied in the field, is most often sprayed on but sometimes brush applied. A green and brown color paste was supplied to the troops. This was thinned (with gasoline?) and applied onto the vellow-basecoat. This application method would result in a great variety of colors, shades, and patterns depending on the artistic ability of the crew. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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