BAM Sdkfz-222 Armored Car

[tabletop]

I'd planned to spring this armored scout car on my players earlier in the week but the game was canned due to illness! Curses..and I spent a fair amount of time over the last weekend speed painting the thing!



Anybody know what would be suitable markings for an inter-war German scout car? They served from the mid 30's to mid 40's (funny that) apparently, however google searching failed to reveal any images that showed appropriate markings.

[TadPortly]

Early Nazi German vehicles wore the Reichswehr scheme of panzer grey, dark green and matt brown.  This was latter replaced by plain panzer grey - even vehicles used by the Afrika Korps were delivered in panzer grey, although build up of dust or applications of mud by the crew can make them look sand brown.It was only in March 1941 that a sand yellow paint was introduced.

A useful website for markings is:

http://www.deutschesoldaten.com/vehicles/markings.htm

The sdkfz 222 would have sported WH number plates, balkenkreuz and the armoured car tactical sign (see weapon branches in the link).  Tactical numbers seem to have been optional.  As for unit markings - totally up to you as its a pulp background.

Given that Spain had African colonies, another option could be Condor Legion markings, but I'll leave it up the Spanish Civil War experts to give advice on paint/markings

[tabletop]

Thanks Tad, very handy! Fortunately we play in a vaguely defined, wierd inter-war setting where German armored cars are occasionally seen tooling around the back streets of Cairo!

So hopefully nobody will call me on the DAK paint scheme prior to WWII. Either that or the industrious crew realised a Panzer Grey paint scheme didn't really work for a scout car in North Africa...

[TadPortly]

You're welcome.  Its a shame no one makes a Kfz 13 in 1/56 or 1/48:

http://wilk.wpk.p.lodz.pl/~whatfor/kfz_13.htm

As it looks relatively civilian, it would make an excellent covert badguys vehicle..