Hi Guys,

I am currently building a British Universal Carrier and I want to give it a winter camo scheme as if it was during late 1944/early 1945. I'm struggling to find any pictures or references.

Does anyone know of any?

Thanks for your help
Fages

There are a couple here, however, they are in Russian use:

http://www.o5m6.de/universal_mkI.html

Otherwise a good source is the Imperial War Museum photo archive:

http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/qryImages.php

I had a quick look and found at least one pic in whitewash.

I beleive the british approach to whitewash was often to make it up in the field from lime or the like and so often it was thin and patchy, the idea being it was easy to remove once the snow thawed. Also British vehicles often only applied whitewash to vertical surfaces and not the tops of AFV's as Allied air superiority meant that there was little risk from above.

HTH,

James

That's a hell of a useful point you've raised actually. There was little need for the kind of concealment (from aviation) as the Germans, by that stage of the war had little ground-attack capability and (mainly) a handful of recce aircraft. ALL contemporary photos of British white-washed vehicles show it as extermporized using rough washes of whitewash..

Thanks for the reply James and the very useful links. I've been unable to find anything other than the rough whitewash type camo you mention so this is probebly what I will use.

Cheers