Painting German Armour: The Tiger! [How I Paint Things
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ค. 2024
- The Tiger was a vehicle practically mythologized in its day. Absurdly powerful and almost impenetrable to most Allied anti-tank weaponry, it would rack up kill ratios the envy of any tank commander. Once early mechanical issues were overcome, the Tiger would rapidly evolve into a top class battle tank, organized into heavy tank battalions which could quite literally change the course of a battle just by their arrival.
Grab this Tiger kit from Warlord Games: store.warlordgames.com?aff=10
Massively broad tracks and interleaved road wheels meant that despite its whopping 57 tonnes at combat weight, its ground pressure was less than that of a Sherman - it was surprisingly agile despite its colossal size. Still, the Tiger needed to have its outer road wheels removed and smaller tracks fitted to roll on to specially designed train cars to be transported to threatened sectors, as it guzzled fuel that was already a desperately rare resource when it was introduced. Expensive to build and maintain, for the cost of one Tiger it would be possible to build four StuG III - there were never enough Tigers to go around, and probably just as well for the Allies...
Ultimately, the Tiger would be a victim of its own success, driving Nazi tank doctrine in the opposite direction to most other nations' easily maintained, reliable, functional medium tanks - the forerunners of today's main battle tank concept. Though the Panther would learn many of the lessons of the Tiger, it fell into many of the same 'bigger is better' traps, and the rest is history.
Pete the Wargamer's video on straightforward German camo painting: • Bolt Action Tutorial: ...
00:00 - Intro
01:06 - So What Colour is Dunkelgelb, Anyway?
02:42 - Painting Time!
16:59 - The Finished Tiger
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THE BASE: PVA and sand followed by a dark brown paint. Static grass, then tufts and clump foliage soaked through with PVA to make it dry rock hard.
PAINTS USED:
PRIMERS:
Desert Yellow (Vallejo Primer Spray)
VALLEJO:
Yellow Ochre
Saddle Brown
Refractive Green 890
Buff
Black Grey
Beige Brown
Red Leather
German Grey (although Black Grey could also work!)
Brown Sand
CITADEL:
Agrax Earthshade (Shade)
Leadbelcher (Base) - เกม
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The reason I subscribed so long ago is because of your accessible painting style, you can tell you paint to play, not to replicate the Last Supper with a Space Marine diorama.
Came here to say this!
Love the video. As a former crew on a tracked IFV who worked with tanks as well, crews did indeed work hard on keeping their vehicles operational, but cosmetics even in peacetime kind of fall by the wayside. Tanks and IFVs get dirty extremely fast and even bird baths with high powered washers only help so much. Forget about being too harsh on weathering, they only get painted when they absolutely have to so even garrison vehicles will be chipped with a lot of rust in hard to reach places, grease and exhaust stains in all over. Crew are always moving all over the vehicle scuffing all the upper edges, equipment and tools for setting up night time perimeters is kept on pretty much any flat surface. Then you have environmental from driving through terrain and picking up scratches and so on. In short, clean armored vehicles simply do not or did not exist and there really isnt any such thing as too much weathering.
Uh, thanks for that. That is EXACTLY what we need/look for.
We play in 1/72 or 20mm, but don't own a Airbrush yet (to be true, I like the old way with only brushes...but I'm old😁) and are in desperate need of howtobrushuseaware Video.
Thanks for that.
We now made our own texture paint for Bases and buildings. We finished the first tries of cheap diorama buildings that came with our Panzer IIs and I'm surprised how well it turned out.
Thanks for your help! 👍
I was just looking how to hand paint the meng world war toons German kits and came across your videos and fell in love with your video format and how easy it was to follow along.
Love your method for holding the Agrax lid open 👍
Fantastic 250th!!!
We love you, your painting and fellowship!
Thank you good sir.
Cracking job, mate! Frankly, I can't remember how long I've been following your channel for, but it's been fantastic to be along for the ride. Here's to you.
same, here here to @sonic sledgehammer!
Thank you for putting these videos up! I am about to start a 15mm DAK force, and I plan on using your weathering techniques for the army!
Nice work! I found an effective and simple technique for 'fading' the camo red and green is to mix it with the 'sand' colour you are using, it doesn't require access to an airbrush or thinning but does get the weather faded look of the field applied schemes, which often did not use the correct paint thinner and were therefore less durable.
Thank you , Troy .
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Haa ,so you went for the easy camo , try Splinter pattern , 🙂
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whoo yeah, happy 250!
Happy to see 250
Here’s to 250 more 🎉🎉🎉🎉
I literally just purcahsed this model yesterday and the timing could not be any better, thank you for all the effort you put into ALL of your videos, they have made me a far better painter and helped me get more enjoyment out of the hobby
Congrats on 250
Many thanks and congratulations on #250. You are a wonderful fella! :)
Congratulations , and this guide has encouraged me to finally paint my German tanks, they've been primed for over a year and just put on the shelf. Keep up the great work 👍
Congrats on 250, this is another useful one I’ll refer back to when attempting a similar pattern
You are an inspiration and following you has really upped my painting style (especially heads, faces and skin!!). Thank you!
Bravo sir. An excellent video and congratulations! Here's to the next 250!
Looks great! Major congratulations on the 250th anniversary!
Great video mate! Love seeing you do camo patterns without an airbrush, very helpful!
Excellent paint job!!! Well done 👏 keep them coming please, very interesting to see alternative themes other than bog standard colours. Bravo from Italy 🇮🇹👍🏻
Congrats on 250 episodes. What a great achievement!
Perfect timing for this video. I'm going to paint a Pz IV and this video is the perfect tutorial for me.
Keep up the good work and thank you very much.
Congratulations 🎉 and a huge thank you! You’ve helped me grow so much as a miniature painter! I can’t thank you enough! All the best and here’s to the next 250 videos! Cheers 🍻
Pretty sure you've been here as one of the OG for an awfully long time as well! 🍻 Another 250, well... bloody hell. We'll have to see what I can come up with, eh? 😂
congratz on 250 ! really nice work on that tank , i might have to drag out the Flames of War models i bought for an Afrika Korps project and get back to painting them . no Tigers though :)
🐅 meow ! Nice paint job. It looks great. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
"Hey Fritz, what should we paint our tanks?" "Yellow and Red, obviously!"
Congratulations ! And 250 thanks !
Congratulations and Thank You for another great video. Hope you have a great weekend, Cheers, Tony
Congratulations on number 250!!
Congrats and keep up the good work!
Fantastic video , thank you 🙏 great work.
Congrats ! Great video !
I enjoyed your painting approach of model tanks , a relief from high tech airbrush ,photo etch to the max .
Excellent painting tip!
Thank you so much!
This is perfect timing for my German armour!!
Thank you for all the great videos
Your assessment of the colours is accurate to be best of my knowledge. RAL 7028 DUNKELGELB (MID WAR) is a dark mustard colour & evolved from RAL 8020 GELBBRAUN which was used in Tunisia doing the last days of DAK. Some of the vehicles which were intended for North Africa were sent to the easter front & the crews found that this " Yellow" colour worked well on the Russian steppe by adding a Green and/or Brown pattern to it. RAL 7028 DUNKELGELB AUS ’44 DG I & 44 DG III were more of the beige colour as the chemicals which were needed to produce the paints were in short supply. I found that RAL 6003 OLIVGRÜN & RAL 8017 SCHOKOBRAUN were used mostly between 43 & mid 44 & late 44 it was replaced by RAL 6011 RESEDAGRÜN & RAL 8012 ROTBRAUN due to production constraints
I didn't think I was far off the mark! Time constraints mean I ordinarily won't go too deep into shades and colours of what was actually available, but since I don't script things I can muddle through some of the explanations - very glad to hear I was right in the main. 😂
My bloodaxe battlewagon will be getting this paint scheme. Don't have an airbrush, so this was a big help.
CONGRATS on 250 posts! (As usual and always, your clearly illustrated techniques and 'friendly patter' as you produce really fine results are a godsend to hobbyists at all levels...)
What I MIGHT SUGGEST (since the 'TIGER' is one of the most iconic of WWII AFVs of any of the combatants indeed...) is that you MIGHT consider a 'Follow Up' video on how 'Super Detail' this 'Table Top' Tiger into something a little more 'Showcase'... (I'm sure viewers would appreciate this?)
Though ABSOLUTELY not essential for a 'Table Top' wargames model, the addition of further painting detail, heavier weathering particularly 'round those pristine decals, some stowage, perhaps some 'net camo', the addition of the kind of 'crap' tank crews tend to hang on or upon the machine (Buckets, Boxes and Barrels!) EVEN the kind of 'natural camo' like 'tree branches' or shrubs that Tiger crews, (particularly in Northern Europe in the Late War era) ADORNED their machines with.
AS you OFTEN say in your mini-painting videos, "You can leave it there OR we can go CRAZY!!!" (Or words to that effect!!!)
I'm SURE such a video 'Follow Up', (given the HUGE appeal of the Tiger 1 as a machine...) would be really well received by viewers. (And you're the man for the job!)
Here's to the NEXT 250 videos from our favourite mini-painting vlogger!
CHEERS! xx SF
Congratulations on the 250th episode!
Great tutorial. Especially for those of us without air brushes.
Congratulations! You rock!
that looks amazing mate, so glad me and a friend picked flames of war instead of bolt action I couldn't do that camo on a large model! 15mm scale will hopefully be a bit simpler
Congrats! 250 is no easy feat!
This is amazing! I finished my tiger last week so looks like I’ll be repainting again haha
250 marvellous videos! Hurray from behind the Alps! There would be room in the future for Canadian paint scheme WWII?
Another superb video!!
Congrats on the total reached!
Now, where do i buy a Tiger from.....
Amazing, will be trying this.
The model looks great! I have learned a lot from your channel and one of the things I learned is using makeup brushes for painting. I am currently building a 1/72 M2 Bradley that has been dry brushed using makeup brushes and it really has an airbrushed look to it using them. Thank you for the information and inspiration.
Great to hear! I wish I could recall where I'd picked up the makeup brush trick, but it's been an absolute game changer with how I've been knocking vehicles out!
Awesome video! Love the tiger tank. Can we maybe get a terrain video in the future?😉😊
Well done mate 🥃🥃👍🏻
This episode was "riveting". You can use that you if you like :D
Re: the painting of the cammo pattens, I read a few accounts, from allied and axis perspectives, of them using mops and brooms to apply paint. IIRC most of the really slap dash effects were with the whitewashing and it might have been preferred as it was splotchier and looked better.
You waited too long to have one in your collection. But now you do and it came out awesome
I want a panther For mine next. But I want totry that post war captured one the tank museum has. But anyway great vid and happy 250.
It looks to be red oxide and possibly the same yellow you used. Im not sure however. Thoughts?
Vallejo Model Color Desert Yellow 70.977 is a good match too..
Hurray! Happy jubilee! And now I will actually watch the video
Hey Dunkelgelb, I might offer some insight from the german literature on this topic. There are more than one variants of dunkelgelb. The RAL Colours were created or better branded and unified by Reichs-Ausschuß für Lieferbedingungen (National Committee for Delivery and Quality Assurance) in 1927 - before the rise of the nazi party.
They kept on doing it and the first Dunkelgelb were:
1. "Dunkelgelb (RAL 7028)" for agricultural vehicles like tractors. This is a beige-grey color and is older than the war. It is up to debate if this colour was ever used on military colours in the beginning. Maybe as experiments during the decision process for the German 1943 Camo project. This is NOT the colour that were used in North-Africa, this was RAL 7027.
2. "Dunkelgelb (RAL 7028) after Pattern" or sometimes called Dunkelgelb 2 in scientific literature. This was the first Dunkelgelb selected and ordered by the Werhmacht in their order from 18th february 1943. More yellow and way brighter than the civilian colour. Was only in usage for a short time BUT was distributed widely and used for tests before the official order by many units.
3. "Dunkelgelb (RAL 7028)" or sometimes called Dunkelgelb 3 in scientific literature. Less yellow, more brown. Was introduced in march 1943, just some weeks after the first order... This stays for nearly the rest of the time but often vehicles in Dunkelgelb 2 were not repainted, later painted not by the troops but in the factories - and even here the color mixing was often done wrong.
4. Endwar crisis, changed again, dunkelgelb 1 for agricultural vehicles is used, sometimes the vehicle is left in the oxide primer and the dunkelgelb is sprayed or brushed on without a color primer, feel free.
So to make it short: vehicles in the German Army will look different, the whole idea behind the Reichs-Ausschuß für Lieferbedingungen (National Committee for Delivery and Quality Assurance was a unified system of colors and they failed at it. I mean having three colors under the same number with different names and pigments is nuts. If the troops mixed the colours to thin, used water instead of petrol, whitewashed the tank in winter, were in different weather or cleaned the tank more often you will get totally different results.
And one anecdote: German troops often used petrol gasoline to wash their tanks, it was even done in the german bundeswehr until it was forbidden because it ruined the infra-red properties of tank camo. This is a lazy but effective way to clean but yeah... dangerous and not smart for the camo.
Beautiful model, at least the tracks are in one piece, imagine building them with every single wheel, as in older kits. Now with all these plastic kits it's possible mix parts for make also Weird/alternative wars
I watch a lot of TH-cam vids but rarely subscribe unless I come back to the same TH-camr multiple times I'm subscribed and also rang the bell some of the first vids I've watched of yours was two years ago at least. You've improved when it comes to making vids but were always an excellent painter 👍🏻 would love to see some more contrast painting tutorials on historical miniatures.
Now that's high praise. Thank you kindly! There's more in the pipeline for knocking out historicals as well, so keep your eyes peeled for the next 250 or so... 😂
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio will do!
Ohhh I need some panzers
Yay tanks!
fantastic paint scheme love german machinery /camo patterns really lets imagination go wild.. on another note does anyone know where to get a stl or replacement gun barrel for a tiger as mine had a unrepairable disaster cheers
thanks for the quick info on the vallejo desert yellow number. was this a primer colour or just a paint colour thanks again Brad
I need a tiger
Dunkel = Dark, Gelb = Yellow, so Dark Yellow. Seems quite simple to me.
You'd think it was that simple, but you'll end up having many an argument on the subject if you utter the wrong combination of colour codes in the wrong place! 😂
can you please tell me the number of the vallejo yellow primer you used thanks
Congrats on the 250th. A nice job - and the molded zimmerit is a nice touch from Warlord - you want mind-numbing, hand scribing it into a 1:72 Tiger is the very definition (followed closely by painting 'ambush pattern' on a Panther). If you wanted to go all in on the tracks (if Sonic's track work is an 8, Martin takes it to 11), the best video out there is from Night Shift (he does metal tracks, but can confirm works on plastic and/or old school rubber ones) th-cam.com/video/rcL3DyKDgAk/w-d-xo.html
Am I the only one irked that the number on the tank wasn't 250? :)
Unfortunately, due to the way the tank battalions were organized, there's no 5 on the decal sheet. 😅 Believe me, if it'd have been an option, it'd be 250!
So for wheels they actually should always be painted a solid color, never a pattern! This is because when the vehicle is moving the wheels spin and the pattern would create a visual effect known as Pattern Induced Flicker. This attracts the eye and provides something for a enemy gunner to really focus on easily. So this is one time where a camo pattern would counter productive. Yay for us since it makes painting one little thing more simple!
Go figure! Extremely pleased to hear that the easy way is the right way! 😂
Can it be that the MG34 is missing at the front?
It's not missing if I deliberately left it off. 😜 I think I mention it at one point in the video, but it's left off during painting since it's one of those things you'll smash to bits while you're drybrushing.
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