is there a army green examples site /pictures
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steveo3002 said:
looking to match this , other than humbrol charts etc is there any sites that show real photos of army /airforce colours over the years , im sure something would be a close match but not sure where to look , and its too heavy to drag down the model shop
Jader1973 said:
I’ve got Vallejo and Tamiya “Olive Drab” which are different colours.
So I did a bit of googling - that was a massive rabbit hole and I’m still none the wiser about what colour OD is / was.
Different armed forces in different eras have different interpretations of colours. So I did a bit of googling - that was a massive rabbit hole and I’m still none the wiser about what colour OD is / was.
"Olive Drab" is most commonly associated with USAAF aircraft in World War 2. It was the common upper surface comouflage colour used on fighters and bombers from around 1940 to 1943 after which most front line US Army aircraft were left unpainted apart from an Olive Drab anti-glare panel.
It was a notoroiusly fickle colour in that, when initially applied, was quite dark but which faded rapidly once exposed to sunlight. You can even see different tonal shades on the same aeroplane.
Eric Mc said:
Different armed forces in different eras have different interpretations of colours.
"Olive Drab" is most commonly associated with USAAF aircraft in World War 2. It was the common upper surface comouflage colour used on fighters and bombers from around 1940 to 1943 after which most front line US Army aircraft were left unpainted apart from an Olive Drab anti-glare panel.
It was a notoroiusly fickle colour in that, when initially applied, was quite dark but which faded rapidly once exposed to sunlight. You can even see different tonal shades on the same aeroplane.
I didn’t know they used it on aircraft - I’d associate it with all of their WW2 AFVs and soft skin vehicles etc. "Olive Drab" is most commonly associated with USAAF aircraft in World War 2. It was the common upper surface comouflage colour used on fighters and bombers from around 1940 to 1943 after which most front line US Army aircraft were left unpainted apart from an Olive Drab anti-glare panel.
It was a notoroiusly fickle colour in that, when initially applied, was quite dark but which faded rapidly once exposed to sunlight. You can even see different tonal shades on the same aeroplane.
As far as I can tell the USAAF colour wasn’t quite the same as the Army colour, and anything mixed in the field wasn’t the same as the original colour anyway.
I guess some shade of browny green is fine, and once it is weathered it doesn’t really matter.
Eric Mc said:
Different armed forces in different eras have different interpretations of colours.
"Olive Drab" is most commonly associated with USAAF aircraft in World War 2. It was the common upper surface comouflage colour used on fighters and bombers from around 1940 to 1943 after which most front line US Army aircraft were left unpainted apart from an Olive Drab anti-glare panel.
It was a notoroiusly fickle colour in that, when initially applied, was quite dark but which faded rapidly once exposed to sunlight. You can even see different tonal shades on the same aeroplane.
Remember the old Humbrol Enamel 'Olive Drab'? It looked so dark it was almost black. Nothing like how it actually looked on aeroplanes."Olive Drab" is most commonly associated with USAAF aircraft in World War 2. It was the common upper surface comouflage colour used on fighters and bombers from around 1940 to 1943 after which most front line US Army aircraft were left unpainted apart from an Olive Drab anti-glare panel.
It was a notoroiusly fickle colour in that, when initially applied, was quite dark but which faded rapidly once exposed to sunlight. You can even see different tonal shades on the same aeroplane.
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