I'm building a RetroKit Latvian Vickers-Carden-Loyd Model 37 with 20mm gun but can not find pictures of the colour scheme.
The instructions say green, sand, brown with black outline but supply only one small faint black and white photo from the right front.

Can any one confirm correct shades of colour and pattern.

Thanks

Try and find some pictures of Polish armor painted in the "Japanese Scheme." Here is an example of what it looks like:



The website: http://derela.republika.pl/index.htm

That sounds a lot like this: which is at Bovington.

You might be interested that MAFVA's recent Tankette 45/6 (I think it is Dec 2010 or Jan 2011) has a quite lengthy feature on Vickers tankettes, though it doesn't have any particular detail on colours of Latvian tanks. The author does say, somewhat in passing, that the tanks for Chinese export were painted in the scheme shown above, but "exported 6 tonners to other buyers do not seem to have had this scheme", I think the suggestion being that they may well have just been green. Sorry, perhaps I have just sown more doubt.

Steven and Matthew, thank you.

Yes that is close to the scheme that is shown in the small photo, now to work out the shades of the colours.

Looking at the photos it does appear that the scheme is not fixed.