Hello everyone,
I was just wondering what everyones thoughts are when it comes to painting American Tools on tanks? The historicly accurate way is to paint them olive, but it is more appealing to the eye to paint them with wood handles etc.? Just wanted to get some feed back thanks everyone.

I paint my tools first and then attach to the tank. I know others paint their tools on the tank, but for me I am not that steady .

Doug

I paint the handles a wood colour. I think it looks better

hey there

i always do the tools that would have a wooden part to them a wood colour

makes them stand out on the tank more i use dark yellow mainly im trying some lil techniques a friend told me bout for giving alil dark grain to it aswell

its always best to do the tools on the sprue i think..

Tony

Gday Robert
I think the jury is still out on what was is in fact 'historically accurate'. I have seen archive photos of what looks like both. As for the modeller's take on this, well I agree that to add a natural wood finish adds a nice contrast to the generally overall OD. Bear in mind that even if they were painted OD, with a bit of use and wear and tear they would go back to wood or steel quite quickly in certain places.
Cheers
Brad

hey,

heres a pretty decent site on U.S. pioneer tools,mainly covers shovels&axes,personly ,I own a WWII U.S. axe,made by Collins,unissued /never used,and it's painted,completely OD.

http://jeepdraw.com/John_Barton2-AXES.html

Joe

hey thanks everyone for the input i think I know what i will do!