Hi guys,

I am looking for good references of british markings during WWII.

I would like to get information of the sizes, colours, fonts, units, etc.

Thanks in advance,
Angel

A good investment would be the series WARPAINT, Colours and markings of British Army vehicles 1903 -2003 by LCol (Ret) Dick Taylor. There are 4 volumes, published by MMPBooks in the Green Series.
It covers all aspects of the British Army, softskins, AFVs and more.

Agreed, Warpaint is pretty much the first and last word on the subject.

Thanks Paul and Matt,
Angel

Note that Dick's book really is only for British vehicles. Canadian, Polish, Aussie, New Zealand, Czech, Dutch, Indian and other allid forces and vehicles that used essentially the British schemes, but with national and regional differences, are not covered. You need to look to individual publications for those. Dick's books will get you started on those other nations, but is not as definitive as it is for British subjects.

As you are, perhaops, finding with your other similar questions on the topic of national markings, none of them has a single work that definitively covers the ground and is totally accurate including all of today's research.

That's why we older modellers have such extensive libraries, you need a lot of books to really understand a subject as broad as this, even if you constrain yuorself to only one national group.

You don't want to know how many exceptions there are to any of these nominally standard schemes! It'll make your head spin!

Paul

Thanks Paul.

I know that it is impossible to get all that information in a single book but I am looking for information from people with far more knowledge than me to orientate me with which books or series are worth getting.

Best regards,
Angel