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Modelling => Ideas & Inspiration => Land => Topic started by: ysi_maniac on May 04, 2013, 01:17:46 AM

Title: Finnish armour
Post by: ysi_maniac on May 04, 2013, 01:17:46 AM

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=117669 (http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=117669)

Can you help me with colours? What is the light shade? Lt  grey, lt  green, beige?

Title: Re: Finnish armour
Post by: Feldmarschall Zod on May 04, 2013, 01:38:33 AM

Quote from: ysi_maniac on May 04, 2013, 01:17:46 AM

[url]http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=117669[/url] ([url]http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=117669[/url])

Can you help me with colours? What is the light shade? Lt  grey, lt  green, beige?

They would be painted in a light/medium gray,brown,and green. Lifecolor makes a set of acrylic paints for Finnish armor.
http://www.pacmodelscatalog.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=PCM&Product_Code=XS+08&Category_Code=lc_sets (http://www.pacmodelscatalog.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=PCM&Product_Code=XS+08&Category_Code=lc_sets)

http://www.militarymodelling.com/news/article/lifecolor-finnish-armour-paint-set/7875 (http://www.militarymodelling.com/news/article/lifecolor-finnish-armour-paint-set/7875)

I think they used three colors,not four.

Title: Re: Finnish armour
Post by: perttime on May 04, 2013, 01:40:19 AM

Looks as if they weren't all exactly the same. Or they were painted different at different times.


Google Image search (https://www.google.com/search?hl=fi&gs_rn=12&gs_ri=psy-ab&pq=stug+iii+g&cp=24&gs_id=ep&xhr=t&q=STUG+III+G+rynn%C3%A4kk%C3%B6tykki&client=firefox-a&hs=RDL&rls=org.mozilla:fi:official&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.45960087,d.bGE&biw=1440&bih=768&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=wvODUY33G8yM4gSJn4HoCw#um=1&client=firefox-a&hs=Na0&hl=fi&rls=org.mozilla:fi%3Aofficial&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=rynn%C3%A4kk%C3%B6tykki+sturmi&oq=rynn%C3%A4kk%C3%B6tykki+sturmi&gs_l=img.12...0.0.0.245988.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0...1c..12.img.7n1GhojVlb0&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&fp=86484f91ca27efa1&biw=1440&bih=768)

Example in museum:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Stug_III_parola_1.jpg/800px-Stug_III_parola_1.jpg)

EDIT:
a site dedicated to them:
http://www.andreaslarka.net/assaultguns.html (http://www.andreaslarka.net/assaultguns.html)