Hi there,

I haven´t posted anything here in a while. However, I am just about to start painting Revell´s Unimog U1300 and I am quite unsure about the chassis color.

There are real trucks with green chassis for sure, but some photos also depict black. I´d like to go for black version, but I couldn´t find any detailed pics showing clearly if some parts of the chassis still come in green color.

Could you help?

I should also mention that the truck is planned with Bronze Green color.

Thank you very much for any feed back.

Hi,
We had a couple of these in our regiment (1983-85) ant their chassis had the same colour than the whole vehicle. To be honest, I never saw a German army truck with a black chassis.
My service time was shortly before Nato 3-tone camouflage was introduced, so it was "gelbolive".

You can see a U1300 ex Bundwehr vehicle here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9x35clMSnQ

Andreas

I noticed several times that MAN truck have the chassis painted in underbody protective coating, the color is black-brown. Same color is used with Dingo MRAP. So I think there is a good chance that the Unimog U1300 chassis is painted the same way.

Hi Jiri.

Take a look at the immages of panzer-modell.de maybe they are useful.

http://www.panzer-modell.de/referenz/in_detail/2t-unimog/014g.jpg
http://www.panzer-modell.de/referenz/in_detail/2t_krkw/009g.jpg

Here are the walk arounds:
http://www.panzer-modell.de/referenz/in_detail/2t-unimog/2t.htm
http://www.panzer-modell.de/referenz/in_detail/2t_krkw/2t_krkw.htm

Walter

Thank you for the inputs guys. I appreciate your help.

I also found some good reference at primeportal http://www.primeportal.net/trucks/ulrich_wrede2/unimog_krkw_y_591_735/

BR, Jiri