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Syrian armor color 1967 Six Day War

phantom8747

Joined: March 09, 2015
KitMaker: 281 posts
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Posted: Monday, May 18, 2020 - 11:25 AM UTC
Need a good color match. I thought of using Humbrol Dark Sea Gray but it is dark. 02 Grau looks too light. Dragon says gray green for color.

TopSmith

Joined: August 09, 2002
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Posted: Monday, May 18, 2020 - 12:20 PM UTC
Hold your breath. Mike from this site, was over there and looked at their tanks. He said no two had an exact color /pattern match to each other. I think close counts there may not be a color more specific than medium gray.

grunt136mike

Joined: November 24, 2012
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Posted: Monday, May 18, 2020 - 12:23 PM UTC
Hi;
Syrian Armor was almost impossible to judge as to there vehicle color's !
Especially on the Golan, Vehicles became almost immediately with Dirt & Dust; So unless you were really close colors became very Bleached out ! Almost all of there vehicles were just left in there Russian Green, and then depending on there Division or Batt; were given additional camouflage paint. The colors ranged on lite earth, and lite grey depending on the available paint they could source ! While walking thru the Valley of Tears after the Battle, some vehicles had elaborate scemes while other's were just left in Russian Green !!
CHEERS; MIKE.
Syrian Armor was almost impossible to judge as to there vehicle color's !

CHEERS; MIKE.


zapper

Joined: October 18, 2005
KitMaker: 745 posts
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Posted: Monday, May 18, 2020 - 01:07 PM UTC
Think these vehicles should be in original color. Photographed just after the Six Days War. Then they are in strong sun light and so on...
Russian green?
Russian green?

grunt136mike

Joined: November 24, 2012
KitMaker: 1,896 posts
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Posted: Monday, May 18, 2020 - 01:26 PM UTC
Hi; Guys.
Early Russian Armor green varied in color depending on which Zavod the vehicles were manufactured, which was very dark in contrast, and became Sun Bleached very fast !!
Some say Black Green is A good match; But even the colors could vary in hue from one vat to the next vat in color, so even vehicles coming from the same Zavod mite not be the same. And vehicles that were repainted later at Batt;/level were lucky if they had quality paint !!
CHEERS; MIKE.
Early Russian Armor green varied in color depending on which Zavod the vehicles were manufactured, which was very dark in contrast, and became Sun Bleached very fast !!
Some say Black Green is A good match; But even the colors could vary in hue from one vat to the next vat in color, so even vehicles coming from the same Zavod mite not be the same. And vehicles that were repainted later at Batt;/level were lucky if they had quality paint !!
CHEERS; MIKE.

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