I have the 1/35 Italeri/Zvezda kit… and in the painting guide says that I must paint it overall Dark Green 34079… As the T-34/85 is my first Russian vehicle building, I want to know if the Russian had their own colors for vehicles… Another thing… I have the Humbrol paint Hu 30… somebody told me that this color is used for painting Russian vehicles… is that true?.. Suggestions are welcome…
I’m sure Russia had its own color standards and numbers. Don’t know of any though that still exist. Testor’s Model Master paints have a Russian Green that look right too. It is a medium-dark green, like all Russian vehicles were.
Apparently any dark green color that was laying around was used. They were not as precise about it as were the Germans with their RAL colors. I understand that the dark green used by the Russians in WWII varied from factory to factory and from batch to batch even more than the OD applied to American tanks in WWII.
there are rumours that some Submarines in the Pacific were painted Pink
and the russian tanks were any green
WHAT!!! pink!!! man, wouldn’t that be an interesting thing to confirm.
Not any green, but certainly many variations of dark green. There was no set color to be mixed to precise chemical standards.
germans…jeez…at least paint it yellow and have a beetles song honoring you…pink??? what were you thinking…
i dont even have a green color from a bottle i just have blue black and yellow…turns out good though:
but i think youll do just fine with dark green
Pink must be a very effective color. It gives an element of surprise. by the time they finish rubbing their eyes, you released your torpedoes and got out of there.
The problem with Protective Paint Green, Shade 4BO (4БО) is that the paint was shipped unmixed as 4 components and it was applied with, shall we say, less than exacting standards. “Any green” is being generous; how about “mostly olive but any green-ish, blue-ish, yellow-muddy, etc.”? I have noticed that color photos of Russian tanks on parade tend towards blue vice olive while a lot of Russian/Chinese trucks of the same vintage wound up sap green .
Yes, it’s true…although they weren’t originally pink.
The story started on Dec. 7, 1941, during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Japanese had bombed the submarine base and started a fire in a dockside warehouse. The intense heat from the fire caused the gray paint to bubble on the hulls of a couple of subs. When these boats put to sea and went on patrol, the blistered paint was easily worn away, exposing the red oxide primer underneath. Between the Pacific sun and salt water, the red oxide turned to pink.
There have been several recorded examples of batches of poor-quality paint being applied to subs who returned to base in the buff…err…pink.
Jeff