I am working with the Tamiya M4 kit and the marvelous (surprise) Legend aftermarket kit to transform it from the short 75mm barrel to the 76mm M4. The sandbag arrangement goes on both sides of the turret and the front and side of the hull. Now, my question is- what color by MM would provide me a realistic sandbag color. I appreciate that the color needs to be weathered and dry brushed, but what series can you recommend to start the basic colors?
thanks
DJ

No one has any ideas on painting sandbags?

Hmmm Most sandbags were made of Burlap. Burlap can vary somewhat from a light to a medium brown in color...... As to a specific color..... Not sure......

some bags I've seen also have a spa green tinge to them also depends if they arte wet or not so you could have a range of colours right through from grren/sand to brown

how about khaki drab it is made by humbrol

Friends-- appreciate your input.
DJ

Anything "sandy" in color would do - desert yellow, dark yellow, buff etc... Can't be very specific since I don't have MM line of paint here.

Thanks. I will take some shots of the developing project and see if we can come to resolution on the color pattern. I do not want to make the bags a uniform color since that detracts from the realism one attempts to produce. Appreciate your comments.

hey dj, joe here with a little help maybe. some of the pics i'v seen of wwll sand bags were dark green grayish. maybe it was the pictures. anyhow going through my mm paints, i found a close match. helo drab. 34031. i hope this can help

Hi 210cav....

There's a little topic in my post on the rivet review board.
Here's a short link: https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/34740&page=1

HTH, John.

John-- many thanks. I have the Legend (LF 1015) Sherman Accessory kit which contains the T-23 turret and sandbags for the hull sides and front along with sandbags for the turret sides. Very impressive arrangements. I am placing these on the Tamiya M4A3 Sherman (35122). The pieces have gone together well. I discarded the Legend plastic 76mm main gun tube and replaced it with a metal Elephant 76mm gun. Will take picture and post tomorrow.
DJ

I use the Model Master dark tan on mine then dry brush a light tan and a dark brown or reddish brown over that

Steve-- so you paint the entire array of sandbags the same base color?
thanks
DJ