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Marine armor painted in FS34052
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Posted: Monday, September 11, 2017 - 03:43 PM UTC
Im doing a Marine M26 from the Korean war and I know that from late WW2 until the adoption of the MERDC camo pattern all Marine armor were painted in a color called Marine corps Green FS34052 and the closest Tamiya equivalent is
Tamiya XF-13 JA green now my question is what is the Tamiya spray can equivalent to XF-13
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Posted: Monday, September 11, 2017 - 04:28 PM UTC
Building a Korean war Pershing myself and I bought a set of USMC decals from Bison. For what it's worth, according to their instruction sheet, the tanks were "US lusterless Olive Drab". Pretty sure Marine M-26's were hand me downs from the Army and they might not have been repainted in Marine Corps Green at the time of the Korean 'Police action'. BTW, if you're looking for markings for your tank I have the rest of the sheet, minus a few stars and numbers. Al
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Posted: Monday, September 11, 2017 - 05:29 PM UTC
According to this site it's AS-9
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Posted: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 - 06:17 AM UTC

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Building a Korean war Pershing myself and I bought a set of USMC decals from Bison. For what it's worth, according to their instruction sheet, the tanks were "US lusterless Olive Drab". Pretty sure Marine M-26's were hand me downs from the Army and they might not have been repainted in Marine Corps Green at the time of the Korean 'Police action'. BTW, if you're looking for markings for your tank I have the rest of the sheet, minus a few stars and numbers. Al


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Posted: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 - 08:15 AM UTC

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Im doing a Marine M26 from the Korean war and I know that from late WW2 until the adoption of the MERDC camo pattern all Marine armor were painted in a color called Marine corps Green FS34052 and the closest Tamiya equivalent is
Tamiya XF-13 JA green now my question is what is the Tamiya spray can equivalent to XF-13


In my mind's eye XF-74 is a better match to what I remember.

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Posted: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 - 11:11 PM UTC

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Im doing a Marine M26 from the Korean war and I know that from late WW2 until the adoption of the MERDC camo pattern all Marine armor were painted in a color called Marine corps Green FS34052 and the closest Tamiya equivalent is
Tamiya XF-13 JA green now my question is what is the Tamiya spray can equivalent to XF-13

According to several research threads on Missing-Lynx, Marine Corps Green changed. The earliest color was the equivalent of FS34079. FS34052 (which is the original color plus black) was used in the late 1950's, and reappeared briefly in the early 1970's before the MERDC colors became standard after 1974 (and the base color in MERDC was FS34079).
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