![]() the Completed Tank Turret Ready For Painting. Putting Together The Turret On The Type 97 Japanese Tank. All that is left is the turret, a lot of rivets and a lot more details. Without a doubt, there is room for some up detailing. The Hull Of The Type 97 Coming Together.Īs you can see this model is coming together quite nicely and quite quickly. Check out my full review HERE Starting Work On The Type 97. The one thing I noticed that for such an old kit it is exceptionally detailed. Out of the box, it is going to be quite a simple build, I have the photo-etch parts for this kit but I have decided not to use them. Building The Tamiya Japanese Type 97 Tank Made A Start On The Type 97 Tank From Tamiya. That being said after a year I have the Scale Model Tank Built And Completed. I guess it puts too much pressure on something that is supposed to be fun. This was actually purchased for a group build. despite German orders and factory application, huge variety existed.Here is my full build of the Tamiya Japanese Type 97 Tank. On the Eastern front in late 43 and early 44, a single colour Yellow and Green disruption pattern was common. On occasion plain coloured vehicles were given just a complete coat of watered down Olivgrun over the Dunkelgelb to give an overall green/grey look that seems to have been used in the West. As petrol became scare water was used with the effect of lessening the durability and the pigment. The paints came as pastes and were required to be thinned with paint for the best retention of application and pigment. ![]() This would then be varied by unit applied patterns, both on an individual and unit level of application and all manner of patterns could appear alongside 'ordered' ones. In December 1944 we see the appearance of a basecoat of Green over the primer with red and yellow hard edge disruption pattern. This could vary between factories, though most had a templated pattern for each vehicle type.īetween September and December, in order to speed up production, we see tanks left in the red oxide primer and oversprayed with green and yellow disruption patterns. In August 1944 the so-called Ambush pattern was ordered to be factory applied. In Feburary 1943 a three colour disruption pattern was ordered over the Dunkelgelb to be applied by maintenance crews as required to suit local terrain. Obviously in the last few months and weeks of the war the situation degraded further and shortages led to a variety of expedients.ĭunkelgelb was ordered in October 1942 as the standard colour and remained so for the war. of the unit, as they had airguns and compressors for the task, or occasionally by the crews themselves. Generally this was done at rest periods by the Werkstatte Komp. Indeed you can tell where a Panther was built by its camo pattern.Īs these aged they would be repainted in the 'field'. Late-War the Germans adopted factory applied schemes on all armoured vehicles. But then I'm concerned the vehicle will look like a patchwork quilt which gets away from the simple appearance of the stripes and the idea that it's been done quickly.Īny advice on what would look best? Will update this thread as I go along. Or perhaps the chassis in redbown but the wheels would be yellow or green. I want some of the vehicle to be in the red-brown (red oxide) primer that the germans used, so though the chassis could be this and perhaps the wheels too. So was thinking that the hull and turret would be as in the pictures, but am undecided on the chassis. But I want to achieve a very-late war, rushed-from-the-factory look to the vehicle. So that's the look I'm going for and I have bought appropriate colours in Vallejo colours that match german colours. This has been interpreted in the following scan from a japanese magazine, and is the basis for what I'm going to do.Īnd put into practice, it looks like this (it's a link, I'd rather not just help myself to their photo) There's definite historical basis for what I'm doing as seen in these photos. I want to do something somewhat exotic, almost speculative to be very-late war and have settled on a strong stripes pattern. This is the kit, currently I've primered most of it on the sprue. I'm making a 1/35 late war Panther with IR gear for an event weekend after this at Duxford. Maybe not quite the forum for it but I know there are some historical modellers and I need some ideas.
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