I felt that the walker was looking a bit drab, so I thought I'd try out some camo to spice things up a bit. A quick google search of "German armor camo", yielded the following nugget of information (although the following images are potentially subject to copyright, it's historical information and I'm not making any money, so it should be fine).
I'm not much of an ancient history buff, and had no idea if this was real, but it turns out it is. Here is an example of the Elefant tank, which is some kind kind of mobile howitzer developed by the Germans
Apparently they weighed 65 tonnes, were armed with an 8.8 cm main cannon and powered by 2 Maybach engines, which in turn powered some monster electric motors (they had hybrids long before it was trendy, pretty dope).
Anyhow, the first attempt looked like this.
Which my brother promptly likened to "gummie worms". This was probably the closest he's ever come to outright saying something sucked, but I'm clever enough to read between the lines. Further analysis of the reference material suggested that the worms shouldn't be of equal weight, so I set about rectifying the situation. Just 4 short hours later...
I arrived here.
I think it's a big improvement, but there's still room for more. It's getting hard to "see", and I feel it's a bit too busy now, but it is what it is and we're not going back. Also the choice to thicken the green was a fail because it will detract from the pilot, who's also going to be green, but after the washes and weathering it might still be fine.
Cheers,
HMP
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