Hi all,

just wondering if anyone can shed light on painting the fire extinguisher as found on WWII German tanks.

Cheers,
Cokes.

On the outside of the vehicle they were painted in the same color as the hull. On the inside they are painted red, but in open vehicle's (like marder 3) the were painted in the same color as the rest of the interior. Hope this helps, if i'm wrong, someone correct me please.

I think I agree with bullet this has been gone over at ML a time or two wish someone would post Color picture of this! (:-) (:-) (:-)

Hi guys-

The external extinguishers were painted the same base color as the vehicle. As for the internal extinguishers.... hmmm :-)

I paint mine a "forest green" color. This is based on information Greg Harting (among others) provided. The color photo that I had at one time, showed the extinguisher almost a USMC green with a red label and black lettering. Sadly, all I have now is a B+W copy of the picture. The red color of fire extinguishers was most likely an American invention, as European fire fighting vehicles of the time were green. Of course, this is open to debate - but I'll continue to paint mine green .... hehehe

If you truly want to be safe, paint ALL the fire extinguishers the same base color as the tank... they often were replaced and moved about on the vehicle - so sometimes, internal ones were put on the outside and vice-versa... the Germans certainly wouldn't want red external attachments - so they might have just done em all in the base vehicle color.


I'd go with green, not red....

Just my 2 cents-
Jeff