25th Panzer Division in Norway - What-if Swedish 1943 invasion

[Rollaone]

Latest blog post covers some of the Progress on the What-if German 1943 invasion project focusing on some of the Vehicles of the 25th Panzer regiment. Hope it is of some interest. Link to the blog post and more pictures here http://rollaone.com/2019/05/06/25th-panzer-division-for-the-what-if-swedish-invasion-1943-part-1/

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Nice looking paint jobs

[Sarmor]

Good job and an interesting subject - I've seen your posts on the CoC Facebook group.
The camo looks really nice, though it's an unusual paint scheme for French tanks. I wonder if some where really repainted in this scheme - I have some photos of S35s destroyed by the Finns in the Lapland war and they seem to be in a single-color scheme.

[Jemima Fawr]

Fantastic stuff.

Re S35 colour schemes: The Germans generally got around to painting everything they could with their usual colour schemes.  In France this started with painting them all grey (they were actually painted grey in the factories that built them - the Germans returned all captured French tanks to their originating factories for evaluation, servicing and conversion to German uses - and repainting).  Then in 1943 they started camouflaging them in the field with dark yellow camo over the grey.  Then they painted them completely dark yellow and applied the olive green and red-brown camo.  I've no doubt that this would also be repeated in Norway.

[Rollaone]

Thanks for your positive, comments. When I browsed around I found a few different suggestions as to how the tanks may have been painted, I just went for the same colour schemes for all the "German" tanks.

[Etranger]

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The camo looks really nice, though it's an unusual paint scheme for French tanks. I wonder if some where really repainted in this scheme - I have some photos of S35s destroyed by the Finns in the Lapland war and they seem to be in a single-color scheme.

They were probably Finnish tanks in the first place. The French exported quite a large number of tanks to Finland & they look to have been painted a single dark colour, probably green, as was usual with Finnish AFVs.

(EDIT. I was ahem, err, wrong - see below)   

[Sarmor]

They were probably Finnish tanks in the first place. The French exported quite a large number of tanks to Finland & they look to have been painted a single dark colour, probably green, as was usual with Finnish AFVs.

Never heard of any French tanks in Finnish service except 34 Renault FTs bought in 1919-1920 - and I've been reading on this subject for some time now.
(Sorry for the offtopic).

[Etranger]

Actually you're right, as rereading the link that I used as 'reference' there's a lot of 'alternative history' in the tale. http://www.alternativefinland.com/french-tanks-interwar-decades/  the perils of not reading everything on the link... it's still a good summary of French armour though!

The Germans did have French beutepanzer in Finland. (PzAbt 211 with S-35 & H-35/9).