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[Seth_Soldier]

Very rare Pak 41.

indeed

[nysä]

[Leopardi]

[Seth_Soldier]

[nysä]

[Leopardi]

Italians

[Seth_Soldier]

[nysä]

Seth_Soldier - That's a nice textbook example of Škoda camo, with false visors painted on.

[Leopardi]

[Seth_Soldier]

Seth_Soldier - That's a nice textbook example of Škoda camo, with false visors painted on.

Cool info ! thx for sharing

[Wilhelm]

Seth_Soldier - That's a nice textbook example of Škoda camo, with false visors painted on.

Do you have any more information about such practices? 

[Matthew_Baker]

It’s a type of late war camo, similar in practice to the ambush styles. It started getting applied at the Skoda factory somewhere in September/ October of 44. http://archive.is/ULYMV

There’s probably books with better descriptions, but the pattern is very similar to the Czech pre-war camo



The colors would’ve been different tho, dunklegelb, rotbraun, olivgrun most likely.

The fake visors were an attempt to draw away from the weakest part of the front of the vehicle from what I’ve read. Don’t know for sure tho

[nysä]

Besides what Matthew_Baker already mentioned, false visors became part of the standarized factory camouflage scheme. Especially Škoda used very uniform templates until the end of the production at Plzeň. BMM camo pattern was a bit more random, even the placement of two false visors differed, diagonally to the right under the visor vs. Škoda's style which ran both left and right.

This picture shows the differences between with these two manufacturers, as you can see Škoda's patterns are identical (BMM is the 2nd from the front) 



If you are interested in more examples, then I'd highly recommend "In Focus 1: Jagdpanzer 38" by Lee Archer, Felipe Rodna

[Wilhelm]

Thanks, yes, I was interested in the false visor aspect! 

[nysä]

Anytime! I don't want to spam more Jagdpanzer 38(t) here, but here you can see "very" standard BMM factory cam with fake visors;

https://images.booklooker.de/x/0162w2/Horst-Scheibert+Panzer-38-t-Waffen-Arsenal-Band-23.jpg