Current USMC desert camo

Read this The marines that went to the second gulf war came from europe, bosnia or some country like that. They were shipped to the gulf so fast they didnt have time to be reissued different uniforms and they werent issued the new marine woodland camo either, so they were wearing the standard army woodland camoflauge for the conflict. hope this helps

What's really cool is the fact that you can represent the units over there by the type of pattern they are wearing. Most of the Marines would go ahead and wear the tri-colors vice digi's due to the fact the tri's were being issued from CTEP (basically a warehouse for theatre specific items) and could be replaced through the supply system. In order to replace the digis they would have to be bought at the cost of the individual Marine upon return to CONUS because they werent available in theatre. Now because the Marine portion of the War was being run by IMEF (West Coast) the desert digi's were a little easier to get and so more of your West Coast units 1MARDIV, 1st, 5th, 7th Mar or any unit (USMC or USMCR) who flowed through CA to get into theatre would have had more access to the new dig pattern vice East Coast units 2MEB, 2nd, 6th, 8th MAR who would have had less.

http://rongeorge.com/modules/Gallery/uniforms

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James Simmons
Lcpl, US Marine Corps

Do a search for MARPAT, which is the name of the pattern. There are examples of the desert cammies so you can try to get a color match there. Most of what I saw via news media was the "Coffee Stain" cammies, i.e. light and med brown with light green, like Israeli Air Force jets. Good luck with the MARPAT though. Better have a fine tipped brush! I wouldnt worry about an exact color match, as it is pretty dusty over there so colors will be lighter. MOPP suits are either Woodland or Coffee Stain.
Oh, and Pico1180, it's Corps, the Corps, etc. if you don't mind. Thanks. I like mad_mac's idea of the mix 'n match group. More realism

Currently...the theater is 'MOPP -' wich means all chem gear put away.

You have your choice if you want them in DBDUs or MOPP. I saw both (pixel?) BDUs and DBDUs on Marines over there.

The pixel uniforms are really soft to the eye. I would use really lighten down the colors on your figures for scale.

Here is a link to a fine example:
http://www.marcorsyscom.usmc.mil/sites/mcub/utility/index.html

On a side note (as far as Army went), not everybody had desert uniforms over there. Especially dealing with MOPP gear (chemical). Most of our chemical gear was woodland camo, with desert uniforms worn underneath. Some reserve and Guard units arrived over there, completely in Woodland Camo. I personally went back to Woodland Camo flight gear, to hand wash and dry my two desert flight suits.

You could possibly do a mix match in the group standing there, reflecting the reality of the supply system ;)

thanks i'll be sure to try it after i finish writing my english paper

QUOTE: Originally posted by laxman6986 thanks pico, but im talking about usmc infantry not tankers, sorry for not being clearer in the question. Thanks

More purfect yet, seeing that most of them are wareing woodland chem suits. And when they're not, they're wareing three color desert with that new camo only on as helmet covers. Mostly.

Much like in WWII in the pacific thetor where nearly all the core had the camo helmet covers but very few had anything else camo.

Also like Viernam where most of the GI's had camo pot covers but como of anyother type was very rare.

thanks pico, but im talking about usmc infantry not tankers, sorry for not being clearer in the question. Thanks

well, if you want authenticity paint them in woodland camo if they're tankers. otherwise just paint the helmets the new como. Or if you want desert go with the three color. The new stuff is experimently and not widely issued/available. Pluss, i dont think the core knows what a desert chem suit is. Most of there troops in the desert now are/where wareing woodland chem suits. Most of the Core tankers i've seen are wareing three color with some type of brown/green vest.

I dont know. i guess the only thing to do would be try it on a scrap piece of plastic and go from there.

thanks for the tips, but i dont have an airbrush. Would it be possible to use say drybrushing instead cader28? Thanks

The thing i used to paint CADPAT (Canadian Disruptive Pattern), which is fairly similar to the marines new camo, is to cut a super small square in a piece of manila paper, or something around that thickness. the square has got to be just a millimeter or so wide. Then, using an airbrush, dust the paint through the mask. Use the squares to make lines about 7 pixels long, or splotches around the same size.

hi , it is nearly impossible to piant the new cammo as the pixles used are so small , it would end up as micro dots of paint , cheers ian