4.1 ) Photographs

Probably the most valuable information when modeling historical events. It can offer insights into diorama settings and proof that certain equipment - camouflage - terrain were encountered for the era depicted.

Example 1 : German Panzergrenadiers (armored infantrymen), Eastern Front, Summer 1944. Photo shows Zimmerite ceramic paste (applied in parallel lines) on the hull, foliage and camouflage on the Tiger I tank, soldier in foreground wearing a camouflage jump suit, all placed in open steppe terrain.

Example 2 : Japan Self-Defense Force Chinook helicopter, carries three-tone US camouflage of Olive-Drab, Forest Green, Black.

Example 3 : Advertisement photo, showing a German He-129 tank buster. Crewmen reloading cannon shells, note its size compared to the loader. Propeller blades are also camouflaged with dapple dirty white paint.

Example 4 : Derlic Yugoslav T-62 tank, knocked out during the mid-1990s Balkan War. Note the sun-baked camouflage of light green and the missing scavenged parts.

Ernhart armor car, German Weimar Republic, early 1920s. Had a boxy superstructure, armor cover for the head lights, special crew helmets.

Normandy-France 1944, US infantrymen advance from among hedgerows, which became strong German defensive positions.

US Armored Jeep, Vietnam, mid-1960s. Shortage of armor plates compelled the men to scavenge for parts and assembly in any form possible.

German Stug III self-propelled assault gun, Winter 1943. Applique armor bolted onto the front glacis.

Close-up of US Marines pixilated camouflage uniforms. Left is Digital Desert and right is Digital Woodland patterns.

Three-tone camouflage of a German Bundeswehr Leopard II tank, with light green, forest green and red brown.