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Australian M1 paint scheme ?
mcevoyi
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Posted: Sunday, June 24, 2018 - 10:29 PM UTC
Hi all

Has any one come across the pattern template
For the Australian M1 abrams paint ?
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Posted: Sunday, June 24, 2018 - 10:35 PM UTC

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Hi all

Has any one come across the pattern template
For the Australian M1 abrams paint ?


There’s two patterns - the first (check Arms Corps Models & Echelon Transfers for templates) is being phased out progressively. In my opinion, the second one is the nicer of the two.

That’s what I did mine in: https://imgur.com/gallery/JsGZxjp
mcevoyi
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Posted: Sunday, June 24, 2018 - 11:39 PM UTC
That's lovely I like it
As I want to don't be same in 1/16th
chnoone
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Posted: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 - 06:33 PM UTC
Have you tried looking at this :

https://www.tankograd.com/cms/website.php?id=/de/Australian-M1A1-Abrams.htm

Cheers
Christopher:-H
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Posted: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 - 08:35 PM UTC
This might help:

http://www.mheaust.com.au/Aust/Research/Abrams.htm

Brian
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Posted: Wednesday, June 27, 2018 - 08:30 PM UTC



That’s the initial scheme, subsequently replaced.
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Posted: Thursday, June 28, 2018 - 01:41 AM UTC
An Australian Army M1A1 Abrams tank fires at targets during Exercise Chong Ju at Puckapunyal training area in northern Victoria, in May 2018 :




Larger size

Related Hi-Res video

H.P.
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Posted: Saturday, June 30, 2018 - 03:53 AM UTC
Does anyone have any pictures or drawings of the new paint scheme?
mcevoyi
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Posted: Saturday, June 30, 2018 - 07:15 PM UTC
I've looked high and low for any details of the newer paint job and come up with a blank !
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Posted: Saturday, June 30, 2018 - 07:59 PM UTC

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I've looked high and low for any details of the newer paint job and come up with a blank !


Easiest way to tell (for me) is to look at the front of the turret, on the loader’s side. The black spreads wider/longer along the bottom of the front plate of the turret.

New:
https://i.imgur.com/2WBnUDB.jpg

Old:
https://goo.gl/images/T4b6HQ

ETA: other tell-tales are the narrow green vertical stripe on the left side of the turret close to the front that covers the front third of the smoke grenade box.

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Posted: Saturday, June 30, 2018 - 10:35 PM UTC
So the tanks deployed during the May 2018 exercise still have the old camo scheme...

H.P.
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Posted: Saturday, June 30, 2018 - 11:07 PM UTC

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I've looked high and low for any details of the newer paint job and come up with a blank !


Easiest way to tell (for me) is to look at the front of the turret, on the loader’s side. The black spreads wider/longer along the bottom of the front plate of the turret.

New:
https://i.imgur.com/2WBnUDB.jpg

Old:
https://goo.gl/images/T4b6HQ




Couldnt you just use the same Pattern as the NATO 3 color and just change out the colors?
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Posted: Sunday, July 01, 2018 - 10:33 AM UTC

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So the tanks deployed during the May 2018 exercise still have the old camo scheme...

H.P.


Some of them do.

Most don’t:
http://images.defence.gov.au/20180623adf8581277_048.jpg

https://imgur.com/gallery/7p303WR

(Not all the pics in my album are from May ).
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Posted: Sunday, July 01, 2018 - 10:35 AM UTC

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I've looked high and low for any details of the newer paint job and come up with a blank !


Easiest way to tell (for me) is to look at the front of the turret, on the loader’s side. The black spreads wider/longer along the bottom of the front plate of the turret.

New:
https://i.imgur.com/2WBnUDB.jpg

Old:
https://goo.gl/images/T4b6HQ




Couldnt you just use the same Pattern as the NATO 3 color and just change out the colors?


That was the original plan (well, the plan after the “don’t paint the tank in Australian colours & apply barracuda over the top” failed.). I don’t believe it was implemented.
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