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Russian Scheme ID help
Caesar9
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Posted: Monday, December 16, 2013 - 08:10 AM UTC
Can someone help a partialy colorblind fellow and help me ID these three colors more precisely?

http://wolfenkrieger.deviantart.com/art/T-80-BV-part-1-of-3-210103326
Frenchy
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Posted: Monday, December 16, 2013 - 08:35 AM UTC
As far as I can tell there are two shades of grey (light and dark) and one shade of green (olive)...

Here are some other views :











BTW...Welcome to Armorama

H.P.
Caesar9
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Posted: Monday, December 16, 2013 - 08:58 AM UTC
Any opinion on what you might think is a close color match on that light? Any brand of paint will do.
Frenchy
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Posted: Monday, December 16, 2013 - 09:33 AM UTC
To me this camo scheme looks like the one used by the East German NVA at the end of the 80's.

Here's a related thread :

http://www.network54.com/Forum/47209/thread/1359997555/East+German+Camo+colors-

and a conversion chart you can use to find matching paint references :

http://scalemodeldb.com/paintcharts/ral

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