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| Subject: | Re: Olive Green North Africa Tigers -- how likely? |  |
| Date: | Jul 2, 2007 |
| From: | Gerald Owens | |
The green scheme was first documented by Colonel Jarrett's Tech Intel report on Tigers knocked out in Tunisia. He simply said they were green (the team was more interested in the tank's armor, drive train and firepower). Half a century later, Wolfgang Schneider interviewed North Africa veterans who said they used stocks of captured American paint to refinish their tanks. However, exact shades are impossible to guess, as engineer units had three different greens available, not just No. 9 Olive Drab, and who knows whether it was mixed other paints the Germans already had?
On the other hand, the Bovington Tiger (previously of the 504th battalion) was stripped down to its bottom coat of paint during restoration, and it revealed a two-tone scheme of 2/3rds RAL 8000 Gelbbraun (Grunbraun) and 1/3rd RAL 7008 Graugrun (Khakibraun). This was a 1941-42 scheme that was officially discontinued, but apparently old paint stocks were being used up. The restored tank now has this finish. And color news photos recently culled from the Getty archives of Tiger wrecks in Tunisia only show two-tone schemes (though perhaps they were photographed before the purported olive green scheme was adopted). These pictures are linked in a thread posted a few months ago on Missing Lynx.
Short answer--if you want to be safe, do an early campaign vehicle in a two-tone scheme. If you like the idea of olive, choose any mid-green you like. After it is suitably dusty, the precise shade doesn't matter. |
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 | Olive Green North Africa Tigers -- how likely? - Damon Agretto - Jul 1, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Olive Green North Africa Tigers -- how likely? - Merlin Samuelson - Jul 1, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Olive Green North Africa Tigers -- how likely? - Chris Schwach - Jul 2, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Olive Green North Africa Tigers -- how likely? - Paul A. Owen - Jul 2, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: Olive Green North Africa Tigers -- how likely? - Jerry Plettenberg - Jul 2, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Olive Green North Africa Tigers -- how likely? - David Golinsky - Jul 2, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Olive Green North Africa Tigers -- how likely? - Gerald Owens - Jul 2, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Olive Green North Africa Tigers -- how likely? - Roberto R. - Jul 2, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Olive Green North Africa Tigers -- how likely? - Martin Dogger - Jul 3, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Olive Green North Africa Tigers -- how likely? [IMG] - Roberto R. - Jul 3, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Olive Green North Africa Tigers -- how likely? - Arun Bauer - Jul 3, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: Olive Green North Africa Tigers -- Big 142, small 142 - Geoff Steer - Jul 4, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Olive Green North Africa Tigers -- Big 142, small 142 - Geoff Baines - Jul 4, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Olive Green North Africa Tigers -- Big 142, small 142 - Trevor Ware - Jul 5, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Olive Green North Africa Tigers -- Big 142, small 142 - Robert Escher - Jul 5, 2007 |
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