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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, October 13, 2003 1:40 PM
You can also have a lot of fun going to a museum like the Patton Museum and looking at their vehicles. IF you go on an 'off day' (not a major holiday or near one), you can call ahead and ask to see the storage areas and restoration shop. Lot's of good ideas there!

Ron.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, October 11, 2003 8:40 AM
thanks for the info guys. this helps a lot.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 8, 2003 1:45 PM
WWII German tanks were often neutral gray below the sponsons and buff above. Sometimes, parts were left in primer coat (red, not iron red, but an almost pure red), so you might have a red floor plate replacment next to a gray one, or red below the floor plates and such in the hull. I've seen black seat pads in most German WWII tanks... replacements? Originals may have been brown, but I don't know.

US Armor: White. Except open top (tank destroyers), when the fighting compartment (and sometimes the driver's area) were olive drab, or what ever the exterior color was. Seat pads were black, except for the OD canvas ones on tank destroyers, half tracks and such.
Instrument panels were olive drab with black faces on the gages. Gun breeches were usually gun metal (almost black steel color), while the recoil systems could be white (usual for a Sherman) or olive drab (usual for a later Stuart). Radios, a kind of half way color between forest green and olive green.
Engine compartments were also white.... Nice when the engine was out, eh? Probably couldn't see that white spot for more than three or four miles distant (shows the Allies owned the air!)

British Armor: Silver; to include instrument panels and such. Seats were a reddish brown. Radios, Gray??

Like the Major said, any open topped vehicles tended to be the exterior color inside. I'd imagine there may have been exceptions to this, but not many.

Hope this helps.

Ron.
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  • From: Fort Knox
Posted by Rob Gronovius on Tuesday, October 7, 2003 6:35 PM
Open topped vehicles usully were painted the same color as the exterior. Camouflage patterns did not extend to the insides though.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, October 7, 2003 6:14 PM
Well, for German armor, I always use Tamiya's "Buff" for the inside. The number is XF-57 It's almost like an off-white color

As for Allied.........Question [?]
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interior color
Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, October 7, 2003 6:09 PM
hi, can any one give me any idea of interior colors of axis and allies armor. what about open topped afv's thanx
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