A guide to the new customization in patch 9.21 from WoT EU.
We’ve gone deeper into the customization system lately, providing you with a wider range of options to express yourself on the battlefield. Most importantly, we redesigned the way customization works, adding styles and mapping out a set of customizable areas on a tank. Now, you can paint the hull, turret, gun, suspension, and gun mantlet separately, adjust camo sizes, and give your vehicle a distinct look with visual effects.
To make your vehicle a truly individual and unique battle machine, you can customize its exterior. Update 9.21 introduces the new customization mechanics. To customize the whole vehicle or just some parts, use one of the customization methods:
- Preset styles are a pre-made set of customization elements for all seasons. You can customize your vehicle in just one click.
- Custom styles are a collection of different elements, which you can apply on your vehicle in various combinations. Choosing and combining elements on your own allows you to create a unique vehicle design for each season.
Preset styles
Preset styles are a pre-made set of customization elements for all seasons. Each preset style can include paints, camouflage, inscriptions, emblems and visual effects. You can rent a style for a number of battles using credits. High-tier vehicles also have permanent preset styles, available for gold.
- In your Garage, click Exterior. In the lower part of the screen, the exterior customization panel is displayed.
- Go to the PRESET STYLES tab on the customization panel.
- Select a style. It is automatically applied on your vehicle.
To the right of your vehicle, a window with the list of all customization elements of the style is displayed. To see the exterior design for other seasons, switch between them on the left part of the screen. - To rent or buy the selected style, click Purchase in the upper-right corner of the customization panel. Click Purchase and exit in the Confirm Changes window.
The removed styles are preserved and can be reapplied on the same vehicle or on any other for which this style is available. You can also sell permanent styles purchased using gold: right-click the style and select Sell.
Rental styles can be removed and reapplied on the same vehicle until the end of the rental period. However, they can’t be sold.
How to remove
To remove a preset style from your vehicle:
- In your Garage, click Exterior.
- Go to the PRESET STYLES tab. The style applied on your vehicle is outlined in yellow.
- Right-click on the preset style and select Remove from current vehicle.
- Click Apply and exit in the upper-right corner of the customization panel.
The removed styles are preserved and can be reapplied on the same vehicle or on any other for which this style is available. You can also sell permanent styles purchased using gold: right-click the style and select Sell.
Rental styles can be removed and reapplied on the same vehicle until the end of the rental period. However, they can’t be sold.
Custom style
Custom styles are a range of customization elements that you can apply on your vehicle in various combinations.
There are five elements of exterior customization—paints, camouflage, emblems, inscriptions and effects.
Camouflage can be applied separately on the hull, turret and gun. This allows you to combine camouflages. Apart from different combinations, you can also edit the scale and, in some cases, the color palette for each camouflaged vehicle part.
To get a concealment bonus, you have to apply camouflage on the hull. If you camouflage only the turret and the gun, your vehicle’s visibility is not affected.
Vehicles can be decorated with emblems instead of standard flags and signs, like red Soviet stars or German crosses. Depending on the vehicle model, you can apply one or two emblems on it.
All exterior customizations are layered on each other in the same order as they are presented in the customization panel. For example, if you apply camouflage after painting your vehicle, the camouflage will cover the paint.
How to apply
To apply a custom style element on your vehicle:
- In your Garage, click Exterior. In the lower part of the screen, the exterior customization panel is displayed.
- Go to the CUSTOM STYLES tab on the customization panel.
- On the left part of the screen, select a season for which you want to customize your vehicle.
- Click the part of the vehicle you want to customize.
- In the customization panel, click the paint, camouflage, or any other element to apply it on the selected vehicle part.
To apply this element for other seasons, click the corresponding season icon in the customization settings window in the right part of the screen. - To purchase the applied customization, click Purchase in the upper-right corner of the customization panel. Click Purchase and exit in the Confirm Changes window.
If you change your mind and decide not to buy a customization element, clear the corresponding checkbox in the Confirm Changes window.
You can also easily apply one selected element on all vehicle parts quickly:
- Click on the customization element. The element’s icon is displayed to the right of the cursor
. - One by one, click all the vehicle parts you want to customize with this element.
- To purchase the applied customization, click Purchase in the upper-right corner of the customization panel. Click Purchase and exit in the Confirm Changes window.
Customization elements can be purchased in advance, without applying them on the vehicle:
- Right-click the element and select Add to cart.
- In the Purchase Confirmation window, set the necessary number of elements and click Purchase.
Historical accuracy
All customization elements in the game can be historical or non-historical, the latter are marked with a 
icon. How does it affect the game?
After you turn on the display of non-historical exteriors, you will see all customization styles on the battlefield.
Be aware of these settings when creating a custom style. If there is even one non-historical element in your vehicle customization, the whole exterior is considered non-historical and will not be displayed for other players with default settings.
Pay attention to the customization status under the vehicle icon in the upper part of the screen. If you apply a non-historical element, the status glows yellow and a special icon is displayed. Click the 
button on the status line to see the list of all the non-historical elements applied, and delete them, if needed.
Paints, camouflage palettes and effects are currently available only for Tier X and Premium Tier VIII vehicles.
Sounds very dope.
i finally can pain my tank so it looks like a clown tank 😀
And I can finally hide clown camo….
world of tanks underground edition…
For a ton of gold.
Milking dying cow?
Just milking, like all other free to p[l]ay games
They could save themselves a lot of trouble by NOT splitting up the tank into different paint-able areas. Just have each of the schemes apply to the whole tank and give us more colors and patterns to choose from.
Black Widows in that pic. Black tanks comfirmed????
annnnnnnnnd nope, just switch that crap of in the options so you don’t see what people think is funny. just another sad attempt at making money, when they could just reduce the cost of premium vehicles, and they would sell way more which will make more money than selling a few at a high price. Wargaming has got so desperate to make money to pay for their new offices, that they are driving people away from the game, maybe if they spent as much time fixing the game issues as they do thinking of sh*t money making schemes, then they would have a bigger playerbase, with more people paying for premium days.
Ah cool you don’t like the paint you can turn off, better sell Defenders for less and make the game better, right? Right?
Any idea when 9.21 is due?
Ive tried it in the CT with respective country camo and later on with historical camo. those are really good. But the amount of ppl painting tanks in blue, pink and a mix of said colours, plus others, were just hilarious (I left the option to show all camos, on).
But as I said earlier, this will be World of Clowns. Ofc, if we turn off the option to see the clowns, things will become more enjoyable.
pink IS here we come
Of all the things they could do to improve the game… this really seems very much a non issue. WTG WG you chocked again.
What the critics fail to see is WG are a company that wants to make money. Criticize the paint all you like but you can turn off the silly stuff if so pleases you and they make money without harming your delicate sensibilities. Its better than the next Defender coming out.
Now we shall have black everything!
*evil laugh*
Just imagine having cool historical camo schemes sold/earned on special events, something more interesting for non-historical paints maybe too. Possible new way of WoT monetization instead of OP premiums and gold ammo sales. People just need to be more accepting and open minded. Maybe someday because of this we’ll have total ammo system revamp and working tier 8 MM. One can hope.
It’s a revenue stream with zero impact on gameplay that doesn’t have to affect anyone. I’ll take this over OP premiums, overpriced bundles and all other P2W ways of generating income any day of the week.
@Robopon: “… total ammo system revamp…” As in “no premium ammo for all lickers and affiliated” spamming bobs?
I like to imagine something akin to WT ammo system aka if you can’t pen with AP you’ll load heat/apcr/apds/whatever but without a need to pay more credits. All ammo will be standard. Maybe they can make that you’ll need xp to unlock new ammo types for a specific tank, again, like in WT. That’d be neat.
In my opinion, colors should be free as it has no effect. Only the camos and emblems should remain payable. Personally emblems should be free as well, only camos is worth anything
In other words… you want P2W 😉
Painting your tank brightly will have a real effect. It will make you easier to hit. Not as in WOT camo mechanics, but as in real life camo mecahnics. Bright things are easier to focus on and grab attention better.
Do I understand correctly that we now have to rebuy our inscriptions and camos every time an esports season restarts? I put a lot of gold into my Tier X’s camo and if I have to repurchase it all, forget it.