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Russian Take on 4BO Green
retiredyank
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Posted: Friday, December 09, 2011 - 01:52 PM UTC
Some photos of a T34. I know this is just a movie, but who better to know what 4BO Green looks like?
http://englishrussia.com/2011/10/13/shooting-a-soviet-classic-novel/
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Posted: Saturday, December 10, 2011 - 12:46 AM UTC
Hi Matt, nice pics thanks for sharing

Regarding the endless 4bo green question go here

https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/185502&page=1


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Not as yellowish-brown as olive drab. I am not showing an image of the color because all monitors are calibrated differently (if calibrated at all...), but the spectrophotometer reading from an actual color chip was sRGB: 89, 83, 54. That is the color you might want to go for.
The original color from the trials of 1939 - sRGB: 109, 97, 62.
The color from the book of color standards 1947/48 - sRGB: 97, 85, 44. This one is way closer to an actual olive drab.

Source of information - Alexander Akanikhin & Michael Orlov.


Try here

http://drpeterjones.com/colorcalc/

Color of the t-34/85 looks quite close to the references
retiredyank
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Posted: Saturday, December 10, 2011 - 01:02 AM UTC
This is an endless debate. I only posted this, because I thought it would be benificial to other model builders. I have also seen a video on youtube, don't have the link anymore, where they pulled a t34 out of a river. Part of the paint was very yellow and the other a slightly bluer shade of od. That's MM OD, not the ANA or acrylic.
Minsk94
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Posted: Saturday, December 10, 2011 - 02:36 AM UTC

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... but who better to know what 4BO Green looks like?

It does seem logical, but when I see post-war T-34/85 pretending to have 76mm gun, with T-54/55 road wheels and modern headlights.... I would be very skeptical about the paint being historically accurate.
IMHO - those movies are made for entertainment, and to tell a story about people. 100% historical accuracy is not always their goal.
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