That may not be the best photo to work from

Max How sure are you about this? That may not be the best photo to work from, if you look at the patch of brown adjacent to the deck, below the starboard rear of the turret. That does not look to be the same color as the deck, it could be the lighting, or the quality of the photo of course, and I'm definitely no expert on the matter of Berlin camo colors (or any other for that matter!).

Isn't this camo used by one of the training formations of the French Army specializing in urban warfare?

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Max How sure are you about this? That may not be the best photo to work from, if you look at the patch of brown adjacent to the deck, below the starboard rear of the turret. That does not look to be the same color as the deck, it could be the lighting, or the quality of the photo of course, and I'm definitely no expert on the matter of Berlin camo colors (or any other for that matter!).

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I saw 14th/20th Hussars Chieftains in Smuts Barracks when we sent a replacement Squadron to Berlin so they could come down to Hohne for firing camp. The decks were definately brown and no offence taken, sometimes pictures don't show everything and it takes someone who was there to confirm things. Even Takom's Mk10 instructions have you paint the decks green. I would imagine they have taken pictures of a Mk10 painted to look like a Berlin Chieftain.

All vehicles of the same type were painted the same scheme. The exact same colours in the same places. This was so individual vehicles could not be identified and therefore a count of how much armour was actually in Berlin. If you google Berlin Brigade armour and find the parade pictures you will see Chieftains, CVR(W)Fox and 432's all in the same patterns.

These tanks were painted at Bovington by myself and a colleague. The army have no choice to subcontract as David Cameron sold all the army work bases in his austerity cull. The decks are mainly brown but intercut with the white & grey for distortion. As a rule Chally decks stay pretty much free of engine oil & soot.

Would you happen to have the pattern template used to paint the Challengers?

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All vehicles of the same type were painted the same scheme. The exact same colours in the same places. This was so individual vehicles could not be identified and therefore a count of how much armour was actually in Berlin. If you google Berlin Brigade armour and find the parade pictures you will see Chieftains, CVR(W)Fox and 432's all in the same patterns.

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If you believe that anyone in Berlin was fooled by camo on how many tanks there were in the city then you are sorely mistaken. There was also the agreement of how many tanks could be in the city, how many soldiers could be in the city. Plus since the camo was unique the soviets knew there was a max number of what, 16 Chieftains in the city? About the same number of M60's and AMX30's. We were in a fish bowl. The Soviet were our ALLIES. We saluted them when we saw their officers, mainly in our PX, and gave them the greeting of the day. They could go on any kasern without hindrance, except ours. They'd come in riding in their blacked out diplomatic Mercedes and we'd block the cars with our bodies, standing in front of and behind and blocking the doors with our backs to it to keep them from getting our pictures. They'd always catch me on the way to the chow hall. The MP's would then escort them off base. Couldn't arrest them or take the film from their cameras. They could walk by the fence of the kasern, and take pictures of all the equipment, and personnel, they wanted including bumper numbers. The soviets took over Spandau prison every four months to guard Hess and the british armor motor pool was right there. There were no secrets in Berlin. The stupidest thing I saw tho, was when we went to East Berlin we went in dress greens and you removed your name tag, all soldiers did. If you were from my unit you also removed your branch insignia and unit crests. That was a dead give away. I could always see, in my mind, the Stasi and the KGB looking for the soldiers with their uniforms stripped and saying "those guys must be intelligence because they sure ain't intelligent".