Winter camo

[Jeffrey Goff]

Hi I have just added some pictures showing the trial of the Winter Camo finish, I did not want to use any sort of white paint, as I would like to remove it when I wanted to with out to much fuss, so I found an old tin of army Blanco used for whitening belts and gaters, you add water and apply with a sponge, I have given it one uneven coat, and have also applied it to the cloth rad cover, this is still wet in the pictures, when it is all dry I will rub the areas where the wear would be, and see the results, has anybody got any better ideas, of what else to try

regards
Jeff

[Allan Richards]

Jeff,

I've just spent half an hour looking at your pictures and have to admit that the level of detail in your model is awsome. It looks stunning. The problem is that having put so much effort into this detail do you intend to run it over any challenging terrain. I have pushed my Tiger over some challenging terrain and it has been both positive and negative. On the positive side it has produced some good weathering effects and realistic damage. The negative side is that it has damaged dome of the detail.

Winter Camo looks good and Robin Ellis has his superb looking Tiger and laterly his 22 in winter camo, although I see he is selling his 222 - don't know why though.

[Patrick O'Donnell]

I understand that the cheapest and easiest method is white blackboard chalk sticks. Easy to apply dry and when you want it off, you can just rub it off with a damp cloth or let it go all streaky in the rain.
I would think that the recipe for white blanco would contain alot of chalk.
I can remember in Malta in the army when we ran out of blanco for parades the Sergeant Major, made us use the local light brown clay/mud as blanco. The webbing colour variations on parade were not appreciated by the General.

[Jeffrey Goff]

Hi Allan, although I am building it as a working model, I doubt it will do much running, but you never know,

Patrick, thats a great idea to use chalk, the Blanco I am using is from WW1 and came with somebodys kit that I bought, I am going to wait untill it is dry then dry brush it to see if it blends together, at the moment you can see the sponge marks, I will try the chalk on the canopy, as the Blanco soaks it

thanks you both for the advice
regards
Jeff

[leesellars]

Hello Jeff

Fantastic. What a transformation. Are you bringing it to the show at stoneliegh??


Lee

[Patrick O'Donnell]

Jeff,

Yes, as I remember blanco it is very thick, and when new almost like jelly, and does nothing for webbing at all, if fact when I was in Borneo we did not use the stuff at all, but just scrubbed the webbing until it was clean.

Another thing about chalk is that it will get into all the cracks and crannies. Many colours can be used for other times of the year. You could change the colour scheme every three months.

[Jeffrey Goff]

Hi Patrick, the Blanco I have is in a tin, and a solid block of chalk substance, there is a depression to the top where you add some water, and a natural piece of sponge to put it on with, but you are right about the chalk, I read that this was even used by The Germans when other supplies run out, you can just see them raiding schools for the chalk!!
regards

Jeff

[Patrick O'Donnell]

Jeff,
The blanco we had came in a tin and was all soft and squidgy like a runny jelly, but I understand that the older stuff came in solid form.
Yes I can imagine Helmut and Otto the famous chalk SturmbanFuhrers raiding schools.