Does anyone know if the jungle-camo pattern as shown in http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffg_content/dust-tactics/news/SSU%20Announcement/flammlutherwotan.png will be official for those models when they sell them in the prepainted premium edition?

(Personally I hope not since it would really stick out from the rest of the premium patterns and mix jungle camo with "arctic" patterns)

The jungle camo doesn't really suit the snow bases they are on :/

Yeah, it seems that is the official Premium paint job. All their showcase models are in the official premium format.

Loophole Master said:

That would be a disaster... kind of giving the finger to the premium buyers since it wrecks all consistency... lol... if I knew that was going to happen (and might happen again) I would rather have paid somebody to custom-paint the normal edition of the game. That way at least I would have ended up with an army that didn't mix vastly different patterns.

Uh, why not just pay somebody to paint the Wotan and Flamm-Luther in whatever colour scheme you'd prefer?

I was under the impression that the camo pattern for the new Axis medium walkers is the Axis Zverograd pattern.
Just like they did Allied Zverograd camo premium walker sets?

Regardless, I agree that it doesn't mix well with what is already released in Premium.

Then again they might release the new walkers in the original axis camo pattern and in this new (and then perhaps also the older walkers in the new pattern).

Fwiw the design pictured is not "Jungle"/Zverograd etc but more an interpretation of the official German production scheme from the later war era that was applied to pretty much all production vehicles.

Quote from elsewhere.

"In August 1944, an order was issued to the assembly firms to apply the camouflage pattern at the assembly plant using Dunklegelb RAL 7028 as the base coat with Olivgruen RAL 6003 and Rotbraun RAL 8017 applied in patches. This order created the uniform pattern which has become known as the “ambush” camouflage scheme.

Following the order to drop Zimmerit in September 1944, Panzers left the assembly plants with a base coat of primer Rot RAL 8012 (dark red) with only about half of the surface covered with patches of Rotbraun, Olivgruen, or Dunklegelb.

Finally, as initiated by orders dated November 1944 - but not to go into full effect until June 1945 - the Panzers were to receive a base coat of Dunkelgruen (RAL 6003). A camouflage pattern was to be created at the assembly plant by spraying on Rotbraun or Dunklegelb in sharp contours."

For those interested Vallejo actually have a nimber of paints to suit.

I like Vallejo paints for their consistency and colors, but find several that don't match the historical colors they purport to be.

That said, Vallejo picked to match actual colors rather than names, as well as Reaper or other nice paints to work with, can give a really nice pallete for WW2 colors. Reaper's pallete is more extensive than Vallejo's (one of the biggest I've dealt with), but they have fewer colors named to hint at their WW2 significance. Vallejo have a specific WW2 set that can match a lot of colors close enough, but be slightly wary of the names they use.

Nice quote for people who wonder what colors to use, by the way. While it didn't always work in practice due to paint supply issues, it gives players a very nice set of ideas for painting for a Germany that wasn't close to defeat.

To help a bit more: Rotbraun is reddish (chestnut) brown, dunkelgruen is dark (forest) green, dunkelgelb is dark yellow (yellowish light brown), and olivgruen is olive green. Between supply problems and technology issues, there was a fair amount of variation between batches of the same color of paint, so anything close can be justified.

I've been tempted a few times to try and do a rag painted camo scheme to match some of the early war slapped on camo, but keep deciding to stay with schemes that look cleaner and nicer to the eye. Historical accuracy is nice sometimes, but I still have to look at the models when I play, and the good times look so much better.

I guess we will have to wait for the Premium sets to go up for sale to find out what the camo pattern is called as far as the Dust storyline is concerned.