@Frenchy thank you very much for the info, you are amazing, i don’t remember there being an interior when i built my BMP-1 years ago.
@Johnnych01 you are on the right track 
Now i dare to say that this forum is a collection of experts on improvised markings and camouflage of the past hundred years. And im dead serious about that. Nowhere alse will you find a group of people with experience in the field of historical examples how armour and equipment was marked then in the comunity of plastic modelers. What strikes me is the absolute garbage state of how the invasion markings are painted in comparison to basically anything i have ever seen in history including civil war and clan warfare. And im not talking about the Ukrainian grafitty on captured stuff, im talking about the supposed great superpower here. Is that an indication of the quality of troops ?
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@Uncle-Heavy ROFL LMAO you just made me laugh so hard thanks mate.
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Looks like the Farmers tried to remove, but the welds weren’t up to scratch.
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They’ve done that rust camouflage to perfection… 
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Or maybe an example of very impromptu painting as they didn’t know what was going on until just before they got the order to cross line… It looks like very very last minute … and some one high up the food chain running around with a bucket of white paint and a brush and telling some poor 18 yr old driver, " right , start painting Zs on everything… Go !!!"
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Rome in New York, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Oregon (could be the ticket), Pennsylvania, Tennessee
Paris in Arkansas, Idaho, Illinios, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York,Ohio (x2). Oregon (could be the one), Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin
London in Arkansas, California (census designated place???), Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin
Some of these are small places …
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Maybe because there wasn’t any … 
https://www.scalemates.com/products/img/2/9/7/149297-48-instructions.pdf
H.P.
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I am guessing, based on no factual data, that when they passed out ammunition to the troops on maneuvers just before the invasion, they dropped off a quart of paint and just said put a z on the vehicle so you won’t shoot each other. I am sure this was not done as the vehicles left on maneuvers. “Private, put a Z on it” so we have “variety”
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The hand-brushed paint dripping “Z” has become such an iconic image. The drips, when modeling are a minute detail which will need some consideration… or just go for the “spray-n-pray” airbrush method. 
—mike
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good to see i haven’t lost my marbles completely 
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@Frenchy- what is this vehicle with the apparatus on the rear?
It is a головоломка or Golovolomka
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Some clues here : https://informnapalm.org/en/donetsk-russian-torn-and-taran-radio-intelligence-systems-at-sparta-base/
H.P.
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Talking about “markings”…
H.P.
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Thanks @Uncle-Heavy and @Frenchy!
Ask Google translate about that Russian name I provided 
Captured Liza armored ambulance (based on the Typhoon-K 4x4 chassis) used as a troop carrier :
H.P.
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Just found some info. It’s a 1V14M series battery command and forward observer vehicle
SP Designs makes a conversion set for this version of the MT-LBu
https://afv1-35.wixsite.com/spdesigns/full-complete-kits
AFAIK, it’s used with 2S1, 2S3 and 2S19 SPG batteries
H.P.
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