While much of my time has been spent on the James Bond, Thunderball, Kiss Kiss Club, I have not forgotten the Roco. I have been painting my Corbett trucks and a few other trucks too.
These will tow my 4.5 inch guns that I converted from the Roco 155mm howitzer.
I spray painted the trucks some time ago but now it's time to do the wheels.
Paul Heiser Models resin HO scale 2 1/2 ton truck, with the spare tires behind the cab as the artillery towing version. Troops tend to overload trucks so by putting the spare tires behind the cab and shortening the bed they could lessen the likelihood that troops would load too much ammo in the bed and overload the truck. This is what happens when I fail to stir the paint enough, the flat green comes out gloss green. It was a new jar that needed extra stirring that it did not get. A quick application of Tamiya clear flat fixed it. Winch and windshields also need painting.
You can just see the barrel of the 4.5 inch gun. They had a long recoil and part of the barrel was silver, and unpainted in real life.
Front view, Corbett truck.
Top view, two down, 10 to go!
7 comments:
Nice trucks!
Some times flat paint turns out glossy on the prototype as well. I remember we had maintenance and brushed up the camo-paint on several Land Rovers. All the paints turned out flat except for one tone of green which turned out glossy. So these Land Rovers turned out semi flat with glossy patches. Everything had to be redone.
I remember a couple 2 1/2 ton cargo trucks in the US National Guard painted in camouflage, seeing them from a distance I knew there was something wrong with them but the scheme was fine, the paints were correct, but it was just off. Getting closer I realized the trucks had been brush painted camouflage, and not spray painted as required by regulation. It was a very weird effect.
Norwegian vehicle camouflage is a 3 color pattern; Green, brown and black. In the witer the brown is repainted white. The pattern is a kind of splint camouflage with blear lines. And it is standard to brush paint it.
https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1496/129/1600/2_-645538537.jpg
Decades ago the US Army decided that spray painted camouflage patterns were better because the edges were feathered rather than straight line.
I guess that's a question about the terrain you're going to use your vehicles.
Even if there are standard camouflage patterns for each vehicle-type, I've noticed that modern praksis id often to keep some vehicles plain green or tan, no matter what the environment they're operating.
Here is a photo of the Old Leopard 1 tank in Norway. There are a lot of straight lines in the environment it's operates:
https://www.leopardclub.info/workshop/LW020/images/002.jpg
Looks a lot like WWII German Navy camouflage.
In the Cold War the US Army developed a system of Camouflage that used four colors, one being black. A scheme was developed for each vehicle. The black was always in the same spot on each scheme. All the shapes were the same only the colors would change. In California they used one called orange desert, and it was orange, tan, brown, and black. Nearly all the National Guard vehicles were that scheme. Administrative vehicles were often gloss olive drab as they were never intended for a tactical deployment. And sometimes a new vehicle would be forest green when it was delivered from the factory until it could be sent to the camouflage painting unit.
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