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World War 2 Airborne Troop Colors

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  • Member since
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World War 2 Airborne Troop Colors
Posted by jaysun on Monday, August 16, 2004 12:56 PM
Hi, I am relatively new to fine scale modeling. I am having a hard time finding out colors for my 1/72 scale US airborne troops (WWll). This looks like the place to go. Someone said Olive drab but that looks a little too dark. Does anyone know what colors work best? What about those jump boots? What color are those?
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Posted by HeavyArty on Monday, August 16, 2004 1:19 PM
This topic comes up often here. This is an earlier post with some answers. http://www.finescale.com/fsm/community/forum/topic.asp?page=-1&TOPIC_ID=16103&REPLY_ID=142145#142145
You can also do an Advanced Search (upper right corner of page) with WWII Airborne as the subject and set the date range to about a year, and you get lots of hits.

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  • From: Western Canada
Posted by ghamilt1 on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 5:26 PM
If it would help at all, I posted a picture of an airborne trooper in 120 mm scale on this forum about a month ago. The thread was entitled "101st Airborne trooper" and is on about page 3 or 4 of this forum. I am very confidant that the colours of the uniform, which appear to be almost tan, are correct for the period of the Normandy landings.

There are a few military re-enactor sites that feature American airborne uniforms and these sites provide a ready reference for any modeler needing to get the colours just right. Try this one;

www.atthefront.com

I was just there and they feature a couple of examples of U.S. airborne packages for sale to historical re-enactors, and you've got to know that these guys go to great lengths to get things like colour correct. Good luck.
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