Exhausted with compressor problems in painting my R&R, I turn to this resin kit from Blitz models. Blitz produces different versions of this mythical howitzer but the WW1 is my favourite. AND the camo should be hand painted!
The kit itself is very nice and needs minimal detailling work mostly on the firing system wich is a bit simplified.
The camo is made with acrylics and I try to looks like the tones seen on the 155C Baquet preserved in the royal army museum in Brussels.
I'm curious about the camouflage scheme - I noted that the scheme was based on the Baquet 155C at the Brussels museum
(http://www.fortiffsere.fr/artillerie/index_fichiers/Page1959.htm). The camouflage scheme on the Baquet howitzer looks German to me rather than French.
I'd like to be corrected though. It probably doesn't matter since the Germans used many captured guns in WW1 and WW2.
It is very difficult to be sure about the tones on WW1 warfare. The Brussels howitzer is none to wear an original paint. I don't if it was captured or not but it looks close to the original 1915 french instructions. My idea was to stays close to the overall "tone spirit", using different colors as a model 17 should have been factory painted instead of an earlier design. It will be maybe easier to answer with the upcoming publication of the Pascal Danjou book dedicated on french camos 1900-today.
Thanks for the "heads up" on Pacal Danjou's forthcoming book on camouflage. There was an article on French camouflage in Blindes & Materiel a few years
