Beowulf  | 13 Oct 2010 3:37 p.m. PST |
I'm painting a few AMX30s, and have very little idea on the colour these should be. Can someone refer me to a painting guide, or suggest an appropiate colour? |
| Major Mike | 13 Oct 2010 4:33 p.m. PST |
Dark OD Green, for the ones I saw back in the 1980's. |
| Wyatt the Odd | 13 Oct 2010 9:44 p.m. PST |
Where are you using them? The French Foreign Legion used the AMX-30B2 in the Gulf War, as did the Qataris. Here's the last version in near-NATO tri-color in the 1980s picture Wyatt |
| Princeps | 13 Oct 2010 11:07 p.m. PST |
Depends what model, but basically from the late 60's into the 80's it is a dark olive drab. In the 80's they went to the NATO three colour "forest" camo (the pic in Wyatt's post) and for Gulf War 1 they had a two-tone camo. Just google AMX 30 and you will get dozens of pics. |
| Frankss | 14 Oct 2010 8:37 a.m. PST |
Hi Beowulf,
I got a pre painted 1/72 scale model, think from a French manufacturer.
Supposed to be 501eme RCC 1982
I'll drop itoff this afternoon if your home. |
| Jemima Fawr | 14 Oct 2010 8:44 a.m. PST |
Prior to going NATO three-colour, they used NATO yellow-olive, like West Germany and some others. |
| Beowulf | 14 Oct 2010 9:33 a.m. PST |
These will be cold war (80's), so I could go olive drab or three colour scheme. I'll probably go olive drab, since these are micro armour. Thanks for the info! |
| Jemima Fawr | 14 Oct 2010 4:50 p.m. PST |
Yellow-Olive is NOT Olive Drab. |
| rdg1125 | 02 Nov 2010 8:24 a.m. PST |
I've been wanting to paint some Trumpeter Ariete C.1's in the NATO 3 color scheme. I bought the three Tamiya colors they advertise as NATO colors, but the green seems too dark. I've seen various pictures such as Wyatt's but the green seems to vary somewhat. I don't know if its just the quality of photos or do different nations vary the green color in the 3-color scheme? |
| GrossKaliefornja | 25 Jan 2011 4:07 p.m. PST |
There's more to the story. I only have reference data for the late 60s, but the colorimetric data is consistent with me medium green grey color you will see here under the "Real Ones" tab link Photos & notes from the same time period show that the Bundeswehr also used this color for tanks prior to going to 6014 in the mid-70s. So 6014 (which is olive drab) wasn't the only mono color scheme the BW used prior to Natoflage. And according to the earlier posts, France probably went to a darker green at the same time the BW split off. The grey green color of the 1960s was called "French Army Green" and "FR-GE Army Green" suggesting that both France & Germany were using this in cooperation before 1975ish, which is when the brown 6014 starts showing up in pictures. Interesting how much early-mid Cold War info has been completely forgotten. |
| GrossKaliefornja | 25 Jan 2011 4:20 p.m. PST |
Oh, to make it more intersting, that FR-GE Army Green color is simply American 24064 + white. Yep. It's true. |
| GrossKaliefornja | 25 Jan 2011 5:06 p.m. PST |
woops. I meant 6014 is AN olive drab (OD is a color range) |
| 11th ACR | 27 Jan 2011 11:44 a.m. PST |
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