Splinter Camouflage Base

Vallejo Panzer Aces 70.345 »Splinter Camouflage Base« compared to our own light grey mixtures of Tamiya XF-20 »Medium Grey« and XF-2 »White« at 1:1 and 2:1 ratios. Clearly, real Panzer Aces will want to use the expensive spot colour every time, rather than risk a potential multi-nanometre deviation associated with any home-made mixture.

Vallejo Panzer Aces 70.345 »Splinter Camouflage Base« is one of two possible base colours of the German »Buntfarbenaufdruck 1931«, often referred to as »Splittertarn A« by militaria collectors. The »Splinter A« pattern was first screen-printed on reversible Zeltbahn M31 shelter halves, the autumn side of which had a light grey beige base colour and the spring side the darker grey beige which Vallejo calls »Splinter Camouflage Base«. The angular red-brown and polygonal green camouflage splotches were the same on both sides of the shelter half, as were the dark green blades of grass laid over the entire pattern.

Reversible Windblouse (Anorak) and Windtrousers, issued in 1942, were printed with the light or dark grey beige »Splinter A« pattern, or Sumpfmuster on one side, and left white on the other for snow camouflage. However, the most common type was white/reed green.

Beige