I have an AFV Club T34/76 and three of the four colour schemes are primarily white.

This isn't whitewash over Russian Green but a full white finish.

The instructions call out flat white.

Were they really painted flat white - I can't imagine spraying it flat white would look correct.

Can anyone give any advice - how is the best way to go about painting a white T34.

Cheers,

Nigel

Nigel;

I'm sure that there were some really all-white T-34 - you can find pics showing near-pristine solid white tanks by Googling around the T-34 routes. Yes, I agree with you that these were likely BO4 green with overpaint, but the shop overpaint jobs were, I think, sometimes pretty good (meaning pretty complete - at least with no visible green patches). Like with German panzers, there was a range of quality in paint-jobs, and the season certainly made a difference in appearance. The field is open, I think, to go with a solid white tank or any lesser-white version as you desire.

Of course, about any later-winter / early spring tank would soon be a pretty dirty specimen, given mud and melt opportunities. Looking through a slice of the "ba-zillions" of T-34 pics available will give you all sorts of sense of what could be done. You will be mired in choices and ideas!

Bob

Were the Russians prone to using whitewash? Whitewash would allow for some great weathering opportunities, but I haven't studied Red armor that much.

Gary

The instructions are indicating a proper white paint job not just a secondary whitewash application.

Googling I have found images of T34s on display that are painted all white.

But I always treat these with a pinch of salt after talking to a curator at tge Bovington Tank Museum.

I went looking for an example of british SCC2 and saw some possible candidates so sought the advice of the curator. He offered a word of caution that many display tanks are often painted by enthusiasts using whatever colour they have available. He said that since the 1990s museums are doing more to get the colours right but before then it was often the case of giving whatever green or brown paint they had to a bunch of willing cadets armed with paintbrushes.

But back to the T34 - it it really have been pure brilliant white or a light grey. And what would look best at 1:35.

Cheers,

Nigel

Hi, I have had this same thought many a time.....were they painted white at the factory? I would guess YES. Ive sean quite a few pics of white tanks and its not just a quick brush over with whitewash. I will probably do one of my many t34s in a factory white finish.....this has given me inspiration.