The Leopard 2A4 isTamiya NATO Green, straight from the rattle can. The Bundeswehr uses Olivegrün (RAL 6003) green on its Leopard 2 MBTs.
Al these were done w/o primer. My intent was to show the colors and to highlight / compare similarities and differences. For a paint company to match any color exactly they would need the data set (hex, etc.) to do so. Models are often shown indoors, where lighting is often yellowish or even red-shifted. Looks can be deceiving.
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many years ago i matched a current British tank after just been sprayed after rebuild with paint from a newly painted tank to vallejo paints .
turned out to be Vallejo Russian primer
here is a bulldog i built to depict a model after being rebuilt.
British Main Battle Tanks (MBTs) primarily use a shade of green known as BS 285 IRR Green for their main camouflage scheme. This green is often applied over a base layer of Light Stone. This is the base color for desert camouflage schemes, often used in conjunction with BS 285.
Some suggest that matte IRR (IR REFLECTING) BS 285 is nearly identical to “NATO Green”.
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I when I was working on them and rebuilding them it was a new green colour not the old Ir paint
We never got in to what it’s number was has I did not work in the spray shop.
They might have done some time ago but not while I was there .
When I was on the build lines it was primer under the green paint. Not sand only certain vehicles were painted in the new sand colour , different to gulf war 1
Colour changed just after Gulf War one , and black is not so common now has it was .
Introduced in the mid-2010s, this color has a noticeable blueish tone and is often observed on newer Russian tanks. It’s been described as a green-blue or even bronze green.
This shade was lighter than XB-518 and also used by the Red Army and is used by some of the Russian army tanks, according to an article on Britmodeller.com.
Since you say Soviet/Russian modern armor, I will assume that would cover their time during the Afghan games.
I have an interior floor panel from a BRDM-2 that never saw the sun, until I plucked it from its home. The green on it is an almost perfect match for Model Master Forest Green, which means you can lighten the color slightly for scale effect if you like.
This is my backup account, unable to get my old one up and running…
I served 26+ years in the Canadian Armoured Corps crewed wheeled, light & heavy tracked, 7 tours last 3 combat tours in Afghanistan commanding Leopard C2 MEXAS & Leopard 2’s. Retired, now a published historian/author on post second world war Canadian Armoured Vehicles and a tech adviser for a few model companies that market Canadian military vehicles…
The new Russian green I showed above is post-Afghanistan iirc. It was first seen on a few vehicles, then made the big time with the T-14. It is the apparent color of choice for 21st century Russian AFV.
Very intriguing. I spent time at NRU, near CFB Petawawa. The museum on-base is quite nice, if compact. I spent a good bit of time climbing the various M4 about the area. There are several M4A2 (76)w (I think: it’s been about 10y since I visited) posted about. The Canadian green appeared to have more yellow than US ODG Shade 8.
As an historian, and me an armor archaeologist, when did that green come about? I understood that the Canadian Army initially adopted British-designed two-color camouflage schemes using Khaki Green G3 and Light Green No. 5. Some references cite a bronze green.
In addition, at the A&CC (Armor and Cavalry Collection) we have a an M4A2 cobbled together to resemble a Firefly, and marked “Strathcona”. I’ll get a pic and share, but I opine that it might have been assembled a few decades ago from bits at the Patton Museum in Kentucky. So I’m trying to get some clarity on its history, correct markings, and color. Repainting it might be a bother, but I’d like to do whatever is possible to make it represent the history of the Regiment and its experience. Did Lord Strathcona’s Horse use the Firefly?.
Here’s an old pic (w/ attribution), taken shortly after it was marshaled for shipment to Fort Benning I think.
