What exactly is the typical color of the T-55 or T-62 used in the USSR? It’s not dark green used in WWII. It’s not olive drab, either. How do you recreate the color? FYI, I use Tamiya acrylics.
medium green would probably work. they were uasually washed down with diesel fuel after operations so, between that and being out in the russian environment, the paint color would be all over the place.
4BO (4БО) paint differ are a middle gray-green, sometimes it are a little darker, very near too dark green/dark gray, so nearly each green and gray can be justified. In WWII, some of the pigment with some oil, gasoline, kerosene or diesel, so there were many colors of the “correct” or “exact” Russian Green:
For some reason I have yet to learn, soviet trucks tended toward sap green. Post war Russian tanks seen in May Day parades seemed to have a definite blue cast. Oddly, mobile missile launchers in the same parades photographed as good old, bad old, crappy “Protective Paint Green, Shade 4BO (4БО)”, aka Russian Green (call it olive).
I used a 50:50 mix of XF4 Yellow Green and XF58 Olive Green on my T62 a few years back. Looks good to my eye. Cheers.
Tamiya Olive Drab 2 from the spray can looks real darn close. It is actually more of an Olive Green than an Olive Drab. I highly recommend that if you choose this color to use that you decant it first and then airbrush it. It sprays rather poorly from the can, too heavy.
Like TomZ2, I also see a distinct blue tint on Soviet tanks. Maybe, I’ll mix dark green, light gray and a little bit of blue.
Color photos of Soviet equipemnt is all over the place quality wise. Some photos showing a Black Green, others a Bronze Green, even Olive Drab shades. The stuff that I have seen first hand up close and personal tended to be more of an Olive Green. Probably the best way to describe it would be Forest Green FS 24127, darkened a bit with a hint of Olive Drab 34087 or Green Drab 34086.
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