"French Africa tanks coloring/camo ww2" Topic
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tyrela | 08 Jan 2018 5:51 p.m. PST |
Does anyone have any info on the color scheme for colony/Africa French forces would have painted their tanks and afv's? |
robert piepenbrink | 09 Jan 2018 5:19 a.m. PST |
The appropriate Ospreys insist there was no separate colonial scheme, and some of their plates are of tanks in the Levant and the Maghreb. So you're back to the wonders of interwar and early war French cammo, what the various factories favored at the time and whether any of it was repainted in the army green and dark earth which was in favor in 1940. Worth remembering that Syria and Morocco are not the Western Desert, and that at least the R-35s and I think probably the Somuas sent overseas were late production models. All bets are off on the R-17s. Oh. And I've seen one photo from the victory parade which seems to show an Allied recognition star, possibly in yellow. So that might depend on which side the French were on that week. Welcome to the club! French tanks are hours of fun for the whole family. |
FlyXwire | 09 Jan 2018 7:22 a.m. PST |
Here's a few views of plates (open source) for a time progression of armored cars schemes deployed in the French African colonies -
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Eleve de Vauban | 09 Jan 2018 9:43 a.m. PST |
Do you have access to "Les Chasseurs D'Afrique" by Sicard and Vauvillier? This book has two pages of 18 coloured vehicles. |
lou passejaire | 12 Jan 2018 5:23 p.m. PST |
Vichy French tanks and afv's used in North Africa and the colony were painted in the color scheme used by the constructor, except the one used in the desertic areas of the southern Sahara, Sahel area and some vehicles in Syria, who were painted in an ocher sand color . It was the rule … R35 in Levant in Renault color scheme
Artillery in Levant, part of the trucks in Olive Green, part in Ocher, and the armored cars in ocher link |
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