"Which tanks had Caunter Camoflage?" Topic
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| Prince Alberts Revenge | 01 Dec 2017 11:15 a.m. PST |
Based on my quick search in the archives, I suspect this may be a complicated question to answer, but here goes…which tanks were painted with Caunter in North Africa? I have a collection of small scale Grants, Matildas, Vickers and A10 Cruisers. I'd like to paint some in Caunter to set them apart from the rest of the sand color but don't know which tanks it was used on. My tank collection is going to be a generic force so I'm not terribly picky on specific units or time frames. Thanks so much. |
| emckinney | 01 Dec 2017 11:39 a.m. PST |
Just make sure you use the actual Caunter colours, and not the ones that were shown in colour plates for so long. :) |
| John Armatys | 01 Dec 2017 11:57 a.m. PST |
As far as I know Grants were not painted in the Caunter scheme, the others you list were. Mike Starmer's "The 'Caunter' Scheme" in the February 2012 edition of IPMS Magazine has drawings for A9, Matilda II, Crusader I, Valentine II, Crusader I and Stuart I (M3 Honey) and says that Caunter patterning was formally cancelled in December 1941 but that it was seen on a few vehicles photographed as late as September 1942 "since repainting was carried out on an 'as and when necessary' basis". |
Big Red  | 01 Dec 2017 12:17 p.m. PST |
The Caunter Scheme by Mike Starmer: link |
| emckinney | 02 Dec 2017 3:52 p.m. PST |
Link doesn't work for me. |
| Big Red | 03 Dec 2017 8:59 a.m. PST |
Sorry. I just clicked and it went right to it. Maybe try it again? |
| mysteron | 06 Dec 2017 8:16 a.m. PST |
All of those could be painted in the Caunter style except the Grants .If you Google Caunter with your search engine on images various pictures will be shown. Avoid using blue though as this was later found as not to be correct. There is a series of books called "Warpaint" . These may be worth looking into as well as they concentrate just on British vehicles. |
| mysteron | 12 Dec 2017 5:41 a.m. PST |
For those of you thinking of attempting the Caunter style then in Decembers Military Illustrated Modeller , there is a step by step contruction of a 1/35th scale Matilda 2 in the caunter scheme . Many of the techniques can be down scaled for smaller models . I wouldn't be too concerned on he exact shade of colours although I would tend to err on the side of lighter shades to represent the affects of bleaching by the sun etc. |
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