| Cold Warrior | 05 Jun 2016 5:02 a.m. PST |
What year did the UK begin the black over green current camo pattern? Assuming it coincided with the move by NATO to the 3-tone? |
| Jemima Fawr | 05 Jun 2016 5:04 a.m. PST |
No, it was long before then. There was a previous thread on this if you want to have a search, but essentially the change from dark bronze green to olive drab and black camo happened 1970ish – 15 years or so before NATO three-tone camo appeared. The recipe is 2/3rds olive drab to 1/3rd black. |
| Jemima Fawr | 05 Jun 2016 5:08 a.m. PST |
I should add that a lot of softskins were simply painted plain olive drab. |
| majormike69 | 05 Jun 2016 5:49 a.m. PST |
Halfords do a spray can of paint suitable for the Nato Olive Green. |
| Cold Warrior | 05 Jun 2016 6:11 a.m. PST |
Thanks JF! Did not realize it was that early on. |
| gunnerphil | 05 Jun 2016 6:54 a.m. PST |
In BAOR only plain OG softskin I saw were at Div HQ and above. In UK saw more but mostly in training units. |
| Jemima Fawr | 05 Jun 2016 9:22 a.m. PST |
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| manchesterreg | 05 Jun 2016 1:31 p.m. PST |
Having painted everything from a Chieftain down,I am glad it was only two colours :) My tank had at least an inch of paint as added armour. |
| Navy Fower Wun Seven | 05 Jun 2016 2:11 p.m. PST |
Remember the corners should be black! |
| nickinsomerset | 05 Jun 2016 11:11 p.m. PST |
There was no standard scheme, as Bruce says the corners should be black and wheels plain, and squaddies being squaddies now and again some quite interesting schemes appeared! Tally Ho! |
| gunnerphil | 06 Jun 2016 2:19 a.m. PST |
By mistake one of our 432s was painted green on black rather than black on green. Correct pattern but looked wrong. No one (apart from those involved) could say what the problem was. |
| Jemima Fawr | 06 Jun 2016 8:48 a.m. PST |
Another wargaming mate had an all-black Chieftain until the SSM saw it… :) (They were doing a re-paint, so started by painting all the green bits black…) |
| nickinsomerset | 06 Jun 2016 9:11 a.m. PST |
For variety in colour think vehicles from BATUS or Warminster are deployed! Tally Ho! |
| Mako11 | 06 Jun 2016 8:45 p.m. PST |
So, early 1970s then? I thought it was more like the mid-late 1970s, so that is useful info. |
| gunnerphil | 07 Jun 2016 2:45 a.m. PST |
Mako, I joined in 75 and all were black and green by then. |
