Kurt
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bradleyl30
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Is it necessary for BoB to be whitewashed? I thought in the early portions of the battle there was no snow and most of the German vehicles were in tri-camo rather than whitewash?
Kurt
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bradleyl30
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Totally understand. Like a good whitewashed Panzer myself
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I also like winterised vehicles, i have the T Gunn three Panzer IVs [which i use with my War Park winter SS figures] and will be picking up a Brummbar tomorrow, plus i have the Eagle Design winterised [and Grey one] 88mm gun and it is excellent. I have all the K & C BotB sets and the other K & C winterised tanks/vehicle, which i use in my BotB dioramas.
On the weather during the battle, it was a fairly large area and the weather was shall we say diverse. There were very few whitewashed vehicles and tanks at the start of the battle, if you scan through pictures the German tanks are predominantly camo and the US tanks are in the standard olive drab, in the often produced pictures of the Shermans and the Stuart M5s in a line at the edge of the woods near St Vith there is no winter camo on any, but the US vehicles and videos such as the attack at the Poteau Crossroads there is no winter camo on any vehicles. From my reading initially it was cold and damp all over the area and there was poor weather for flying, which is ofcourse one of the reasons they attack there.
I was lucky enough a few years ago to be in the region for 3 days, Dec 17th to 20th, and the area did feel different from the 4 or 5 times i visited in summer. Cold and sort of claustrophobic, but the beer is very good and the Fries and chicken or Fries with Steak were great.