British tank colours

Jason,I use a mm dark euro green which matches perfect and you need not black but what is called a black-green.This you can make by taking a forest green and mixing a ft.black.You need to mix untill you get the black with a little green tint to it.Digger

you know its funny how modelers seem to get more excited about colours than the actual users do...I have hand painted military vehicles with the first tin of pain I could find. I am currently in Iraq and looking at the paint jobs on the hummers out here I would never do a model in some of the schemes you see...I dont think even if I took a picture to prove the prototype I would have the nerve....I seen one the other day with tree branches painted on it as cammo !!!!! its just so wierd the things you see here...almost every vehicle has some kind of strange paint scheme?

I just use Tamiya NATO green and black.
On that note, anyone know of the correct colours of older British tanks, notably the Centurion?

QUOTE: Originally posted by Jeff Gunn you know its funny how modelers seem to get more excited about colours than the actual users do...I have hand painted military vehicles with the first tin of pain I could find. I am currently in Iraq and looking at the paint jobs on the hummers out here I would never do a model in some of the schemes you see...I dont think even if I took a picture to prove the prototype I would have the nerve....I seen one the other day with tree branches painted on it as cammo !!!!! its just so wierd the things you see here...almost every vehicle has some kind of strange paint scheme?

Always interesting to see what the needs of the moment will produce in a combat zone. Take pics of those odd-ball schemes whenever you can, I'm sure there are quite a few people who would tackle it if they had a photo to prove it was an actual-in-use scheme.

ok will do .... I think sometimes its boredom and expressionism rather than any tactical effect that drives the schemes

Are the challenger II's in Modern Desert sand or is the British color slightly diff from the American Abrams?

re centurion tank colours depends on mark and where in use, almost anything from
mid bronze green to olive drap (berlin brigade) my old mans unit has far has he can remember were somewhere between dark to olive green with whitewash in winter.
hpoe it helps

But what about the color[s] currently in use in Iraq?