I am currently looking at painting up a couple of USAF ground crew figures to add a little “sense of scale” to a recent 1/72 MQ-9 Reaper build.
As this particular MQ-9 Reaper is operating in Afghanistan, I am trying to find out what colours for the differing tigerstripe shades that the new USAF ABU’s have.
Does any one know or can help please?
if it helps, I’m pretty sure they use the same color palette as army UCP cammo.
They, the tiger stripes, are pretty much are the same colors as the Army. I see AF personnel every day being close to Nellis AFB. That said a co worker is AF reserve and recently came back from A stan. He wore that funky new brown splotchy camo on his deployment.
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He wore the Multi Cam stuff G man?
Yup, He did. We were looking at photos the other day and in about half of them he was in multicam. The remainder of the time he wore ACU’s.
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That stuff looks very similar to the late 70s ERDL jungle pattern once it faded out a bit…
It is common for USAF personnel who work with the Army to wear our uniforms so they blend in. He is problaby an ALO or ETAC.
Yes, you would not want to make a high priority target stand out too much.
Do you mean the digital camo? The colors are more of a pale green, not army greys. If you like, I can take a photo of my ABU cap.
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Any help would be handy thanks. I have found pics online that are most useful as always and think I have Vallejo colours to match