Unusual tank colour schemes

[Vanvlak]

Interesting stuff!

@lou passejaire: is that actually an unpainted red lead colour Hotchkiss? 

@von Lucky: did they spray the green through a net, or use a net daubed with white to make the pattern? Or is it just painted as such? Winter patterns seem to be quite the thing.

@cuprum: that's an Su-85, right? I'd never seen that scheme - definitely an interesting one - although the big red number seems to defeat the purpose of camouflage.

[cuprum]

This SU-122. And there not only unmasks the red number, but also a huge "Japanese" circle on the roof...





Soviet tanks in winter camouflage painted easily washable chalk. And it is unlikely for this spray gun was used...

[cuprum]

[von Lucky]

@von Lucky: did they spray the green through a net, or use a net daubed with white to make the pattern? Or is it just painted as such? Winter patterns seem to be quite the thing.

Just painted.

There's nothing stopping you swapping colours to make it look like tank tracks in mud in a green field or in the sand if you're going a little alternative.

[Vanvlak]

Just painted.

There's nothing stopping you swapping colours to make it look like tank tracks in mud in a green field or in the sand if you're going a little alternative.

Thanks, looks promising.

@Cuprum
Should have realised it was the Su-122 - I have a Tamiya model of it somewhere.
Thanks - the red circle IS striking!
Whitewash is easy and interesting; but that grey T-34 looks great too. 

[Etranger]

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That photo is probably from a post war victory parade. I doubt that winter camouflage was all that effective in Berlin May 1945! 

Nice scheme though.

[cuprum]

This photo was taken in Leningrad, in February 1943. In the photo - Narva Triumphal Arch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narva_Triumphal_Arch
Self-propelled guns from the composition 1433 or 1434 self-propelled artillery regiments. Camouflage an experimental. It applies only to the Volkhov front the winter of 1943.



A little more interesting information ... The area around Leningrad, mostly swampy. Let us remember that the very first two tanks "Tiger" were captured in January 1943, it is on the Volkhov front, after stuck in the mud ... Therefore most tanks were carrying on itself the logs to get out with their help out of the swamp.

[Vanvlak]

Nice photos - and thanks for the details, Cuprum. I'm tempted to try the scheme out on my 1:35 scale Tamiya.

[Etranger]

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I live and learn!   In retrospect it isn't the Brandenberg Gate as I first thought. Thanks for the additional information.  

[lou passejaire]

Interesting stuff!

@lou passejaire: is that actually an unpainted red lead colour Hotchkiss? 

unpainted unfinished hotchkiss ...

in late june 1940, anything was put in the battle , even some tanks without gun, with a single LMG , armoured cars without turret , etc ... some unpainted, with just the primer ....