![]() You can get around some of this with a zenithal style of painting (more on this later), but what you really need is some visual texture or color variation – especially for large, flat panels. The problem with single-color camo schemes is that if you paint your vehicle model as a single color, it looks flat and unrealistic. In the Western Desert, pretty much everything was some shade of tan, so vehicles were painted with that lack of environmental contrast in mind. The sort of two- and three-color camouflage patterns (including the striking, angular, blue-grey scheme employed by the British in later battles) that came into use in Tunisia are still over a year away. Today we’ll be looking at a couple of quick and easy paint schemes that will have your vehicles looking perfect for desert warfare in no time.įor the Western Desert campaign, the British 8th Army, Italian Ariete Division, and German Afrika Korps all used single-color paint-schemes for their vehicles. Most peoples’ minds immediately leap to tanks, but half-tracks, trucks, and jeeps all played hugely important roles in transporting men supplies across the vast, open desert. In particular, the “Western Desert” provided long lines of sight and little natural cover, perfect conditions for armored warfare. The distances and environments involved in the various North Africa campaigns virtually guaranteed that armored vehicles would play an important role. For this article, Marc “Ilor” Renouf describes his methods for painting vehicles for tabletop battles fought in this forbidding and oft-overlooked theater of the war. ![]() In today’s installment of Goonhammer Historicals, we continue our focus on the North African campaign.
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