M1A1 tank colors

[Lucas1992]

what color did you use when you painted them. my came out to dark.

[dougeagle]

Is this directed at somebody?
Which colors are you using?

[BattlerBritain]

Try this link here:
http://www.armouredacorn.com/Refs-%20Th ... 3-tone.pdf

I use Humbrol colors 117, 142 and 33.

Thanks to Gort in this discussion here for the link:
http://www.ghqmodels.com/forum/viewtopi ... camo#23202

[jb]

Try this link here:
http://www.armouredacorn.com/Refs-%20Th ... 3-tone.pdf

I use Humbrol colors 117, 142 and 33.

Thanks to Gort in this discussion here for the link:
http://www.ghqmodels.com/forum/viewtopi ... camo#23202

The colors of the pictures in the above link really seem to be off. The Humbrol color 117 that BattlerBritain states is right on for the base green, and will turn out nothing like "Forrest green" in the picture in the link. The Forest green in the picture appears as Olive IMHO. I don't have Humbrol 142,and 33 so I can't say about them. I do know that the "brown" in the camo scheme in question should be more brown than depicted in the link. It seems in the link that too much "tan" is involved. Now, when trying to replicate "black" in this scale a more subtle shade must be used. What I use is Poly-S Black-green. This gives the black areas a more "scale" effect.
Back to the picture. I don't know what camo scheme that is, and I don't know if it is someones version of the NATO tri green, if so I beleive it to be quite off.
Here are some pictures with the NATO Tri color camo


Some of the paints that I found that work great are;
For the base green--
Humbrol 117 , Poly-S NATO Tri green, Tamiya NATO green, Model master medium green.
For the Brown--
Poly-S NATO Tri brown,Valejo Chocolate brown. I'm sure that BattlerBritains Humbrols selection should work because he's got the green down correct.
For the black--
I use Poly-S Balck-green. This actually gives a real Microscale interpretation of black

[BattlerBritain]

Nice stuff there JB.

I picked up my colour references from:
http://www.panzerbaer.de/colours/a_rela ... erdc-b.htm

and...
http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/afv/merdc.html

..surmising that the US would use the same MERDC paint colours for the new 3-tone scheme as they had for MERDC.

And it seemed to look OK.

Only problem is that Humbrol 142 is no longer available but after a bit of mud is splashed over the model it seems to look OK.

Will post pictures when I get a chance to.

[chrisswim]

I used

Testors Medium Green to spray paint the tanks. Then used Military Brown and then Black to hand paint. There have been some French vehicles to this color scheme posted on this site already.

I may touch that up with 2-3 wheels psinted SAC green and 2-3 painted military brown, leaving the rest medium green. Tracks, machine gun and vision slots are either: black, gun metal, or black 'ink' or black marker ink.

Antenna are black, gun metal or black marker ink.