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Polish trucks and guns in 1939

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:57 pm
by Sepp
What color were the vehicles and guns? Did they use the same camo as their tanks or were they a single color? If so can you let me know what it was. Many thanks.

Polish Colors

Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:59 am
by groundlber
Sepp - According to Steven Zaloga's 'Blitzkrieg, Armor Camoflage and Markings,1939-1940', Polish vehicles were camoflaged in horizontal swatches of light sand grey, dark chestnut brown, and olive green. The brown was the darkest color. The armored vehicles and artillery tractors were camoflaged, with the guns monochrome olive green. All the photographs in the book were black and white, so all I can say for sure is that the vehicles were painted in a camoflage pattern. There's only one photograph that shows a truck in the background, it appears to be a monochrome color, my guess is olive green.
I hope that helps you.
Groundlber

many thanks

Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 6:41 pm
by Sepp
Thank you for your reply ,it helped me out a lot

Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 6:15 am
by 6mmwargaming
Hi

This site has tons of info on the Polish forces and lots of good painting information

http://www.derela.republika.pl/armcarpl.htm

Cheers
Kieran

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:45 am
by supertsar
There's only one photograph that shows a truck in the background, it appears to be a monochrome color, my guess is olive green.
You can see several Polish trucks in this video as they crossed into Rumania to carry on the fight. Lots of variation in camo on the trucks - some have the same horizontal swatches as their tanks did, some have spots! Some are just plain with lots of dirt!

http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=xfm8xa29o ... re=related