"BEF artillery co!our" Topic
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pushing tin | 03 Nov 2014 12:22 p.m. PST |
Can anyone advise on what colour to use for BEF artillery? Thanks |
Bellbottom | 03 Nov 2014 12:25 p.m. PST |
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pushing tin | 03 Nov 2014 12:35 p.m. PST |
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Bellbottom | 03 Nov 2014 1:17 p.m. PST |
check out google images for the 'Nery Gun'. It's difficult to correctly identify the shade of green from photographs, but it should give you a start. |
monk2002uk | 03 Nov 2014 5:01 p.m. PST |
It is likely that the 'Nèry' gun/s and many 18 pounders went to war with the pre-war blue-grey colour. The 60 pounders were bronze green, which became the go-to colour for the field guns until camouflage became widely used. Robert |
pushing tin | 04 Nov 2014 6:27 a.m. PST |
Thanks, I had originally assumed bronze green but then read somewhere about pre-war blue grey and wondered whether this would be more appropriate. I assume you could get away with either, and bronze green takes over more into 1915 on the western front ? |
Martin Rapier | 05 Nov 2014 12:20 a.m. PST |
I think it is a bit like the colour of tanks later in the war, people expect them to be green, even if they weren't irl. Doing them grey would certainly be a talking point on the table top, but all my BEF artillery is green so I can use it for the whole war. |
pushing tin | 05 Nov 2014 3:49 a.m. PST |
That is true, painting them green gives them greater longevity, but as I am working in 6mm it might not be that bigger job to repaint them for later in the war or even just get in some more from 1916 onwards. I suspect I'll end up doing a mixture so they can at least conceivably be used throughout 1915 without stretching credulity too much and before helmeted crews become widespread. |
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