I was watching the movie “Generation Kill” the other night and it kind of inspired me to do another Humvee. I have an Academy in my stash and I started it already and while I was painting the chassis, it suddenly occured to me that I do not know what color is the interior of the desert humvees are. Can anybody give me that info. I’m probably the only one who does not know. Thanks!
Two options. If it is a NATO camo HMMWV that has been repainted sand, the interior will be medium green. If it came from the factory in overall sand, the inside will also be sand.
Thanks Gino. Coming from you, that would be reliable.
[#ditto] gino is absolutely correct. (not that we didnt know that). just thought i’d concur with him!
when did the hummers start coming from the factory in sand?
I don’t know teh exact year, but its been a while.
grimmo the abrams has been comming out in sand. the rebuilt ones that is…they dont build new ones. i miss th days of driving by tacom here in michigan and seing all those bright new shiny abrams (rows and rows) parked outside waiting to be shipped! [sigh] (back then they of course were painted in the traditional nato colors). now everything is done in lima…what a waste! [V]
'Bout 93 or so… The ones that weren’t shipped Sand to CENTCOM were straight OD… The Brown & Black got applied at III-level shops…
Another question to ask is if you want to build one from the show generation kill or if you want to build an armored one. If you decide to do an armored one or not some have differnet grills and such to make room for a bigger engine and oil cooler, depending on when the HMMWV was built. As far as armor goes some models such as the M1123 generally have green armor and hoods or even tan hood and body under the armor but green armor. The Marine Corps was trying to feild the armor as quick as possible and rather than waste time and money on painting it tan, they sent it green. By this point in the war we were no longer hiding from the enemy but rather trying to be able to see the IED’s and also trying to be sure motorists could see us and get out of the way before we shot at them for coming too close. That also brings up which branch you intend to build. In any case I look forward to seeing your progress on this.
Randy
I got a brand new one in late 92 in Kuwait (Oct-Nov timeframe), it was manufactured in sand, even the plastic parts that were normally green in a NATO HMMWV were sand. It was quite novel at the time.
Rob, since you are very knowledgeable of HMMWV I would like to ask you if the gunner’s platform inside the vehicle is really painted gold as in the Academy instruction. Thanks!
It’s not painted, but it is a gold colored metal.
gold colored metal…knowing the army…perhaps its a powder coated brass rob? i mean dont quote me on that…im asking…just looks like it from my experience…and knowing how much the army likes to keep things light with aluminum and such!
I’m working on two right now to go in a dio from an 07 deployment … both will have green interiors.
All six of my trucks had green interiors.
As for the question to go green or sand … I don’t think that either one would be right or wrong.
I don’t know about the metal makeup, just that it some sort of gold color (obviously not gold metal). It’s not painted, just bare metal with a tint.
Here are some photos of one of the sand colored HMMWVs I’ve owned. This one was an S250 shelter carrier (2-door version with heavy duty suspension). You can see that the parts were made tan and not over painted from an original green vehicle.
Even the plastic mirror is molded in tan.
that’s y i figured it was powder coated brass. oh well, i dont think it makes a difference anyway. [8-]
AH HA!!! But, you got a green hood!!! (hehe). Just messin’ with you. After reviewing some photos, I found that one of my trucks was all sand color. However, after loosing some mirrors, a hood, and some other parts from IED blasts, I do have to say that most, if not all replacement parts shipped to us were green.
But here’s a question for my reference … Even if you had a piece, say a hood in tan, would it be green underneath? (Just thinking about how to accurately portray wear and tear.)
The green hood was the result of a training mishap. The truck in question is a training aid for the 63B conversion course. The original hood was removed to teach soldiers how to pull the engine. The course is normally indoors where we have an overhead crane to do the pulling. The one time it was done outside, the wrecker rolled over the corner of the hood. It was replaced with a green one, but the sand colored fittings were put on the new green hood.
Since it is a training vehicle, there isn’t any reason to repaint the hood to match the rest of the vehicle. In fact, some of the vehicles (M35A2) came from the Cann Point and 90% of them are not road worthy because they exist just to be torn apart and put back together again by mechanics in training. The vehicles that do not get trained on were the 5 ton wrecker, FMTV wrecker, M88A1s, a CUCV pickup truck (it was used as a snow plow to clear the motor pool in winter), the Contact truck, M984A1 HEMTT wrecker, M978 fueler HEMTT, and the 2½ ton LMTV we used to haul students and chow out to the recovery course (ASI H8). Everything else was fair game to be used during training.
Wow! Thank you for all the infos. I never thought I could get so much from this post. The information I got will surely go a long way. I will post my build as soon as its done. Im only into the chassis yet.