I was in JROTC, ROTC and the USAR between 1970 and 1992. This is the shade I remember as being used for most US Army vehicles at the time. It is sort of a gray olive drab. I don't know how accurate my memory is about that, but it's what I have chosen to use since I discovered it about 10 years ago.
Rust-Oleum calls it Deep Forest Green.
The light in these photos make it look more gray than olive.
Roco M38 Jeeps that have never been painted getting some paint finally.
First they had the flash trimmed and all the parts replaced, restored, or adjusted to fit. Often the wheels don't turn so the axles need to be bent, or the glue scrapped out of the tires and wheel well. I have a lot of M38 Jeeps, when Roco and later Paul Heiser finally did a Willys Jeep for WWII a lot of these came out on the surplus market. So I picked up about 100 of them here and there. Now I am working on bringing them back to life. I have had to resin cast a few wheels and gas cans, those often go pretty quickly. Some I put a plastic sheet in the rear and use them with mounted machine guns or other weapons that don't really need to rear seat; those seem to go missing a lot too.
Roskopf made a 2 1/2 ton truck that was essentially a copy of the Roco. One version had the canvas and the other had a bunch of tiny soldiers riding in the back. I cut out the troops and now use them for Jeep drivers and passengers. I also use a few of the Roco soft plastic figures too, but strangely those are actually kind of large to work well as drivers. Often they go in the back seat.
2 comments:
Thisl looks good. I think Roskopf made their models to 1:90 scale. They had some interesting models though.
In olden times there was little agreement on what constituted HO scale and so models as large as 1/76th scale and has tiny as 1/100th scale might be called HO. Even the early Roco, like the Panzer IV, the cast hull Sherman, and the Panther are very tiny compared to 1/87th scale.
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