Now when I finally have somewhere to build again I thought I should get starting on my Humvee project (while working on the wife to get to order the new Bronco kit...).

But I have questions, first I'm thinking about doing it in 3-tone Nato but with the extra armor bits in sand color, but I don't know if this occured in real life. Also going to use an updated weapons ring, would that also be in different color, or the same as the vehicle?

And finally wondering if anyone has any good suggestions abouot what color to use for the sand? FS, humbrol of Lifecolor nr please.

You may want to clarify a little. Are you talking specifically about Bronco's M1114, or a side project until you get a M1114? Knowing exactly what variant and what time frame/area of op's this variant was used will help.

I have never seen an uparmored such as 1114 or 1151 that was 3 tone other than a few older pics of 1114's in Europe or in training stateside. I believe that basic, non-frag armor variants could be 3 tone or sand, but would be resprayed sand upon deployment.

Gino or Frenchy would be able to tell you for sure though.

Are you talking about an uparmored M1114, with Frag 5 armor kit for instance ?




Frenchy

I appologize, I have a tendency to always be vague on the details... I'm building a M1044, early OIF, using Tamiyas M1046 and armor and weapon ring from Blast Models. Hope this was helpful.

As Blast Models has released 2 sets of armored doors, here are two variants




HTH

Frenchy

And I actually have both... But I'm aiming for the full lenght door. And that picture you posted gave me some good ideas on how to paint.

Prime Portal has pictures of a 3-tone M1151 here. Not uparmored though, true.

I believe the sand color is theater specific, so only vehicles there or heading there. The armor kits are definitely only for vehicles in theater.

Also, I'm sure with the way things go, though, at this point a lot of HMMWVs throughout the US Army are in the sand color one way or another.

My unit recently got new production M1151's that are 3 tone. They are standard production models without any FRAG kits.