Eponastill
Justified & Ancient
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What perfect colouring. I would have been eaten by it long ago.
Thanks for the leopard pointers. I’m still not seeing the owl or snake. I think I need an outline encompassing them.These two are more difficult.
The owl is barely visible as an owl even when you see him. In fact, I'm only assuming this is the owl.
And I'm still not sure where this snake's head is.
Thanks for the leopard pointers. I’m still not seeing the owl or snake. I think I need an outline encompassing them.
??? ... Nope - the owl is in plain sight ...Unless there's an owl somewhere else, what I think is the owl is not so much camouflage as an owl in a dark hole in some rocks.
My goodness, I searched that picture pixel by pixel when it was posted and didn't see that. Cheeky little goit!??? ... Nope - the owl is in plain sight ...
Hah! Seeing imaginary owls is the first sign of something or other..My goodness, I searched that picture pixel by pixel when it was posted and didn't see that. Cheeky little goit!
Hah! Seeing imaginary owls is the first sign of something or other..
The humble household moggy doesn't do badly in spite of domestication.
That is horrific....but extremely effective. Wow....But pretty crafty I think you'll agree.
Left of large tree trunk, right of crossing branch. Just above the light ground, on the darker ground just above the larger boulders........ too late run!I found the moggy but no leopard
And the practical difficulty with camouflaging a tank is that, well, it's a tank. Hard to hide. I suspect that after a few weeks in the field, it's all going to be dulled down with a layer or two of mud and dust anyway - tankers throughout history have all discovered local mud works if you want to keep it under wraps till it's needed. (Afrika Korps got their tanks in European colour schemes, as did the British opposite. The British cam scheme in 1940-41 was even more bizarre and forced by necessity - massive paint shortages meant the Army had to go begging for Royal Navy and RAF surplus when all these spanking new but bright green tanks arrived in a desert in Egypt.) RAF sky-blue and navy battleship grey was used to add disruptive patterns...It looks like morale boosting stony desert camo.
And the practical difficulty with camouflaging a tank is that, well, it's a tank. Hard to hide. I suspect that after a few weeks in the field, it's all going to be dulled down with a layer or two of mud and dust anyway - tankers throughout history have all discovered local mud works if you want to keep it under wraps till it's needed. (Afrika Korps got their tanks in European colour schemes, as did the British opposite. The British cam scheme in 1940-41 was even more bizarre and forced by necessity - massive paint shortages meant the Army had to go begging for Royal Navy and RAF surplus when all these spanking new but bright green tanks arrived in a desert in Egypt.) RAF sky-blue and navy battleship grey was used to add disruptive patterns... View attachment 50538
As a keen modeller myself, don't I just know it. Lots of earnest discussions out there as to which of two barely distinguishable shades of Vallejo sand-yellow paint is right for, say, a mid-production-run Tiger tank in Novo Stalinskayapodmyshka on the evening of November 3rd 1942. My usual answer is "just paint it and if it looks right it is right" - but then that's heresy. Causes earache.The Caunter Scheme.
Don’t ever get into a discussion of its constituent colours with a keen modeller. You will be pinned to a wall until your ears shut down to protect your heart.
maximus otter
As a keen modeller myself, don't I just know it. Lots of earnest discussions out there as to which of two barely distinguishable shades of Vallejo sand-yellow paint is right for, say, a mid-production-run Tiger tank in Novo Stalinskayapodmyshka on the evening of November 3rd 1942. My usual answer is "just paint it and if it looks right it is right" - but then that's heresy. Causes earache.
One of mine - apparently the precise shade of green was wrong for the Finnish front in winter of 1940 and in any case should have been overpainted, white as it was winter.....
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It's the difference between 100% period authenticity, and saying "the hell with that" and doing your own thing - artistic licence! Yup, the 1939-40 war between Finland and the USSR was fought in winter. This sort of dictates lots of white as a default camouflage scheme. But on the other hand, I really wanted a go at hand-painting the recognition insignia on that KV-2 tank. And the crucial thing about that air recognition painting is that it's in white. (the Red Air Force was intended to see the big white cross on the top of the tank turret and refrain from bombing. however, they failed to think the logic through and realise that a white cross on the top of a tank is a magnificent aiming mark for, eg, the Finnish Air Force.) So I hand-painted the white striping for the challenge of it. After that - no bloody way I'm repainting the whole thing in faded winter white.A proper modeller would paint it in authentic summer fashion and the overpaint it white so none of the original job is visible.
A lesser mortal would simply paint it white in the first place, but what if it ever got scratched at a convention and the truth got out?
Stuff of nightmares.