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Help: Revell M60 camouflage


Levin

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Hi,

I have recently finished building my Revell 1/72 M60 tank and just wanted to start painting but i dont know how.

Heres the problem:

I wanted to paint it as a vehicle of Reforger 85` as it is depicted on the boxart (http://www.revell.de/fileadmin/import/images/bau/03140_%23BAU_M60_A3_2015.PDF first painting scheme; Boxart: http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234987966-m60-a3-172-revell/) as I like the orange identification marks and i have a picture of it (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/M60A3_Panzer.jpg )

though in the instruction it is supposed to be a four-tone camo scheme (while it isn´t MERDC summer verdant (http://www.cybermodeler.com/armor/m60/m60_profile01.shtml) as the colors nor the scheme are matching, the boxart shows mostlikely a standart NATO three-tone camo and the original pictures isn`t much help either

so:

How should I paint it?

Thank you in advance

Levin

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The Wiki photo is (should be) winter verdant MERDC, or a close variation of: http://www.cybermodeler.com/armor/m60/m60_profile02.shtml, without the lighter sand patches. Here's another photo without the lighter patches (there probably was some freedom with the camo application?):

M60A3_REFORGER_85_DF-ST-85-13241_zps2opj

The three tone NATO was used briefly before the M1 was introduced/replaced the M60A1/A3 in Germany. For your time frame I'm thinking the MERDC.

Jim

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I just realised how stubborn and (i have to say) stupid i was of thinking it was summer verdant as the revell instructions shows exactly that combination of colors as for winter verdant.

Again thanks even more

Levin

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