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Post by CmdrKiley on May 31, 2012 17:35:16 GMT -5
OK guys, I'm seeking some advice. I've got a 1/48 scale Panther partially assembled and ready to paint. Here's the dilema: 1) Part of me wants to paint it using the dark yellow camoflague like my Tiger Tank. 2) Part of me wants to paint it something different, as it is an SS unit only in AE-WWII and because of that could have some occult upgrades, I wanted to do something dark and different. Preferably a dark grey or black. This would certainly give generate some ire from historical 'belt-buckle inspector" type players as it would firmly put it into Weird War.   What do you think? BTW, I have two photos posted, but have had some problems with Picasa's Album Properties. Let me know if you can see these or not. |
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Post by TrueRonin on Jun 1, 2012 2:39:53 GMT -5
I am a big fan of the Ambush camouflage pattern, it looks awesome on a Tiger and I believe it would too on a Panther. Even one of the Occult ones. If you want to paint it as a Geister Panzer, then I'd go with an eerie icy blue and try and work the camouflage colors up from there with heavy blending and fading, so as to simulate that it's neither fully here, nor there.
Even though the game is occult I'd feel wonky about not sticking more or less to the historical colors.
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Post by nathoruuk on Jun 1, 2012 9:29:43 GMT -5
The German tank camouflages are hard to improve on. They look awesome. But an Occult tank could be cool with something different. My first tanks of all types are getting normal treatments first. But maybe a second occult vehicle? What if it were painted like a normal camo pattern but all in shades of the same color? Like black or electric blue? So it would look like a black and white photo. Everything, including the weathering and insignia. All shades if the same color to make it look ghostly or other worldly. Would make a nice airbrush project. So I vote black - mixed with a little white...
Vril gun barrels with runic etching and supernatural antennaes would be easy as removable bits to swap on and off. For either paint scheme.
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Post by CmdrKiley on Jun 3, 2012 15:17:13 GMT -5
Thanks guys. I just found another 1/48 scale Panther on ebay real cheap. So I think I'm going to paint the first one up looking pretty authentic historical. Probably match up with the Summer Oakleaf pattern I did on my existing SS figures.  Then use the other Panther and go all out weird on it. This way, I'll have some time to figure what kind of weirdness I want to put on it. Probably even put some magnets on it to give it some optional weird upgrades. BTW, I think it's an issue with this site and Picasa. So far any new pics I post on this site from Picasa, regardless of the folder properties, won't show on this site, but they do on other sites. However, if I post them using links from [ur=http://addictedtopewter.blogspot.com/l]my blog site [/url]it works. I guess I'll have to work on a new article on painting Weird War II tanks next. |
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Post by varagon on Jun 3, 2012 17:08:01 GMT -5
I posted something about Picasa and Proboards and stickied it. I use Picasa to host my images as well.
There seems to be a slight problem linking to images from Google's Picasa that has an easy fix.
Picasa links pictures from a secure server, and Proboards doesn't like it.
When you link from any secure server, notated at the beginning of the link with "https:" simply remove the "s" and wrap the image link in the BBcode [ img]link[ /img] like this.
Hope that helps!
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Post by CmdrKiley on Jun 3, 2012 17:56:19 GMT -5
"There seems to be a slight problem linking to images from Google's Picasa that has an easy fix.
Picasa links pictures from a secure server, and Proboards doesn't like it.
When you link from any secure server, notated at the beginning of the link with "https:" simply remove the "s" and wrap the image link in the BBcode [ img]link[ /img] like this."
Damn! That's all it took! ;D
Thanks.
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