"Vickers MKII and British Interwar 1920-1935 vehicle colours" Topic

I got 15mm Vickers Medium MK II tank and a little bit confused with its colour. I know that early WWII British vehicles were painted in colour close to Vallejo Russian Uniform (or at least Flames of War use this colour).
Heavy WW1 Mark 1 to 5 tanks were usually portrayed in similar colour.

But when I type Vickers Medium MK II in Google it showes me variety of colours like these:

Could someone advice me on interwar british tanks co lours and what Vallejo or Citadel paint to use for it. Tank on last picture have colour close to Vallejo Russian Green.

Trying to read the post index without my glasses, I read this as Knickers Mk11 and British Underwear ! I have the same trouble with sky TV listings. It's surprising the programme titles I think exist. – Soory – back to the topic.

I would go with the colour in the bottom picture. The top one is from Aberdeen Proving Ground and probably owes more to economy than authenticity!

Bottom one is from Bovington, colour was discribed as 'gloss dark green'

I use Vallejo Reflective Green for my British inter war vehicles.

Mick, those do not look inter-war, they look Very British Civil War :)

Your last picture looks about right. The inter-war British Army seemed to paint everything plain dark green!

I think it is bronze green?

Generally dark green unless you are looking at a desert scheme. You haven't specified that.

As far as the photos go, the top one is from Aberdeen. Everything at APG was painted that gray colour, it's not original. The sceond is from Puckapunyal & has been partially or completely repianted several times over, & the last is from Bovington & is probably fairly accurate. I say probably as some of the older examples of painting done there aren't terribly accurate either.

As above, deep bronze green. It is really quite dark.

The Bovington Vickers Medium is a recent repaint and accurate.

I would be inclined to leave 1920 era vehicles in their WW1 colour though, 'khaki', which appears to have been a chocolate brown, despite the Airfix box art on their Mark 1. Takes a brown inkwash very nicely:)

I can't recall when the official colour change was.

Martin

Is this the same Bronze Green as used post war in the 50's until NATO colours adopted?

According to Dick Taylor in his Warpaint series of books on British military vehicle colours, the change from the Great War tank brown (apparently a dark tan rather than the dark earth or khaki colours that also get suggested) was around 1922 or 1923, around the same time the Medium Tank Mk I was introduced.

Initially the replacement colour could be one of several bronze green or Brunswick green shades, and was settled on as Deep Bronze Green in the early 1930s. This was replaced by Khaki Green No 3 in 1939.

The Deep Bronze Green used from the mid 1950s to the early 1970s was officially the same shade as the pre-war colour. It is British Standard 381C colour 224. I'm not sure exactly how correct the colours in this link will appear on a computer monitor.

The Deep Bronze Green used from the mid 1950s to the early 1970s was officially the same shade as the pre-war colour. It is British Standard 381C colour 224.

Probly someone found a warehouse full of paint from the 1930's and thought waste not want not!

Catchan green by GW was made my a chap from great escape games to be perfect interwar/early ww2 british tank green.

Catchan Green is now maketed as Cadan green.

I suspect that this green with a gloss varnish may work.