exterior color for Bradley

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What color will I paint the exterior of the Bradley fighting vehicle? Thanks for your reply in advance

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Hey Ed, welcome to the site. Well the Bradley can be depicted in a few different schemes. You can paint it in three tone Nato scheme or you can paint in it’s Desert Sand. I am not one for modern armor, but Tamiya Acylics offer a nice range of Nato colors. Hope this helps.

Cheers

Rob

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Model Master desert sand can’t be beat for a desert scheme.

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I’m planning on doing my Bradley, Abrams, and Hummer in the Testor’s Desert Sand as a dio. From others I’ve seen posted here, the M2 looks great in sand. JMHO.

demono69

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Hi ed,

If you’re planning to use Tamiya Acrylics or Enamels, you can use the “desert yellow” color. However, you might find it a bit on dark orange side(as I do). If you do, you can lighten it up a bit. Pastels will be a good finisher for desert armor.

Good Luck.

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Model Master makes the perfect color, US Army/Marines Gulf Armor Sand the number is 4812. Its perfect for any Gulf armor especially after giving it the weathering and highlights.

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thanks everyone.
you have all been very helpful. I used Tamiya Acrylic Desert Yellow and didnt find it realistic. You are right Dwight, I should lighten it to match the pictures of Bradleys I see.

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I like the sand colour, its nice and easy to use and get good weathering experiance and practice, but next time I will be doing the 3 tone. More of a challenge.