has anyone ever seen this before?
Hey Rooster, your link goes to a main page with a lot of vehicles on it. what scheme are you talking about there buddy?
Steve
I think he is talking about the SU122. That is certainly an interesting camo job, it has an overall white base with branches painted onto it. I have never seen or heard of that before. Mayby it was based on a picture?
sorry crockett, MG42 has the right vehicle. its the SU-122 with a winter camo with brown naked tree branches painted on it. really weird. i have never seen one like that before. was just wondering if i am missing something that the ruskies did, or its just a make believe camo pattern.
Well, I’m with you guys, never heard of it. It seems feasible, but it’s my (uninformed) perception that the Soviets were not big on intricate cammo. But, I bet you some one who knows there stuff on these vehicles will produce a pic?
Steve
I have a Japanese publication “Camouflage and Markings of Soviet Tanks” that shows this pattern and some other intricate camouflage patterns for soviet WW2 tanks. It is a good reference if a modeller wants to do something other than putting russian green on their kits. The camouflage patterns are rare, but it did happen.
Stveven Zaloga and James Grandsen’n book “The Eastern Front-Armor Camouflage and Markings 1041-1045” has a color profile of it and states that it was used on the Volkhov front in 42-43; there’s a big red air recognition circle painted on the top of the hull near the hatches covering 85-90% of the fighting compartment, which was used around the Leningrad sector at this time.
I saw a guy do a model of this in an old “Military Modeller”, and I remember seeing one at SYRCON (Syracuse area PMS contest) a few years ago…remember thinking it looked rather “Christmassy”![:P]
Het Roo-remember what I said about good reference material?![(-D]
Thanks for the info. I’ve seen in it a few books, but can’t really see it being an effective measure.