Desert tan camo on GHQ dozer

nmanica · Post by **nmanica** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 8:10 pm

Have a question for anyone here on painting desert tan,I have a guy who wants me to paint a dozer in desert tan camo,I would like to know 1. is the blade painted one color or two 2. would the engine block be painted light tan or dark tan.He is not going for anytime frame or anything but I would like to get as close to "real" life as I can been,so any input would be great,I'll go back over to the N scale forum now LOL Thnak you in advance.

Nmanica

Mk 1 · Post by **Mk 1** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 3:55 am

Can you tell us more about the request? Who's "desert tan camo" are we talking about? Are you looking for WW2 British, 1967 Israeli, 1991 French, current-day US? Also what kind of dozer -- a tank dozer, a civilian dozer (per your N Gauge ref), or a modern US Army bulldozer?

These will help us give you better answers.

Mickel · Post by **Mickel** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 4:45 am

The MERDC pattern would be my humble suggestion. Then it's the option of red desert or grey (I think...)
http://sites.google.com/site/merdccamo/ ... -templates

nmanica · Post by **nmanica** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 6:30 am

Hi Folks,sorry for not given you more infor,he is looking for modren day USA or USMC paint job,I have seen light tan dozers comming back from the sandbox but nothing in a two tone,hope this helps,again thank you in advance.

nmanica

Mickel · Post by **Mickel** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:17 am

Disregard mine then - it's from the '70s.

Mike

nmanica · Post by **nmanica** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:56 pm

Oh no is all good this guy is not a rivet counter and either am I so anything that will look good will work.

RedLeif · Post by **RedLeif** » Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:40 pm

I'm not familiar with current, modern 2 tone schemes. I drive by the Idaho Nat. Guard armory lot once in a while and based on what I've seen there and in the past, I'd paint a 'desert' dozer just tan. I'd get any exposed engine area with dark grey or black wash with maybe a highlight of metal bits inside, but probably not. Any louvers should hint of exhaust grey. I think the blade front should be largley metalics with remnants of the tan near the top, especially in the top corners. Hit the tracks with mud and metal colors. The road wheels could be clean or dirty, take your pick. I'd opt for dirty personally.

Just my 2 cents

RedLeif

av8rmongo · Post by **av8rmongo** » Fri Jan 27, 2012 1:24 am

This might help:
http://www.dvidshub.net/image/13185/cw4 ... yGnqvk8CSo

Looks like dozer blade starts out Tan like everything else but gets scoured from use. Corners and edges would still have some tan but rest would be metal or dirty rusty metal.

nmanica · Post by **nmanica** » Fri Jan 27, 2012 9:32 pm

Thank you everyone for sharing the links and your input,I'm going ot try and knock this out this weekend,but I have so much painting to do I'll have to see where I can fit it in?? maybe just do it first !! I'll post pictures when I'm done again thank you all very much !!

nmanica !

nmanica · Post by **nmanica** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 5:41 pm

SO while I am looking for the hood for the tan dozer I did the oliva green and balck one he requested,and this is what I came up with it's ok but the guy that has it now is happy so this my first go at this,and thanks again for all your input

nmanica · Post by **nmanica** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 6:58 am

SO after looking high and low I find the hood for the tan bulldozer,get that painted and then the guy wanting this brings over the second color he wants used,now remember this is not a timeframe or anything just something that he wanted.Please feel free to comment,god knows I need all the help I can get,he wnats more.