434nut Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 My son is doing his first armour model of the above with the anti-RPG add on, ( Ithink thats what it is) While peruseing the web, the pictures I found were of the tank in a plain green colour, but it looked different to the green when the black camo is added.Can anyone help by giving me a correct colur, and if possible a match of any acrylic based paints please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kspriss Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 ive just picked up the trumpy 35th chally 2 with upgraded bar armour...am i correct in saying these are deployed to Afghanistan and if so are they still in green or have they gone over to sand?...also are the dozer blades fitted as standard? totally new to tank modelling, so any tips would be great, thanks (apologies to 434nut for slight thread hijack) steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 ive just picked up the trumpy 35th chally 2 with upgraded bar armour...am i correct in saying these are deployed to Afghanistan and if so are they still in green or have they gone over to sand?...also are the dozer blades fitted as standard?totally new to tank modelling, so any tips would be great, thanks (apologies to 434nut for slight thread hijack) steve These should help answer some of your questions as they include one of the tanks in the decals: http://www.rommelkiste.de/Fahrzeuge/Challe...challyopt7.html HTH Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 Here's another link http://www.qrh.org.uk/galleryeleven/index.htm with some pics of the Chally II with bar armour Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigsty Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 I believe the all-green colour is standard NATO Green, whereas when it was green-and-black the green was a little darker (may even have been bronze green). Tamiya offer NATO Green as XF-67 or TS-61. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
434nut Posted January 29, 2011 Author Share Posted January 29, 2011 thank you for the help, it has gone a long way to sorting my queery Regards, Mickky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 The pic of a Chally II with Dozer blade is only the second I've ever seen. I may be wrong but I seem to remember that they are only fitted to one tank per squadron. HTH Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
434nut Posted January 29, 2011 Author Share Posted January 29, 2011 I seem to remember also, when I was with Scots DG`s LAD, there was only one dozer tank per sqn and that was with the shq troop. Mickky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kspriss Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 just as an aside, the side armour including the turret side and all the bar armour is applied 'in theatre' so UK tanks wouldnt have it fitted. also, all our tanks are now plain green, as it was considered they looked too aggressive with black camoflage markings....or so my mate tells me who is ex-2RTR HTH steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
434nut Posted February 5, 2011 Author Share Posted February 5, 2011 I thought that would be the case regarding the add on armour. I am in the process of building the UK HETT and trailer from Accurate Armour, but am doing it in green, so no uparmoured Challenger for its load I quess. Regards, Mickky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kspriss Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 No reason why you can't, all the uparmoured chally 2 pics ive seen in Iraq are all painted green...just the older challys seem to be painted in sand Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 If you scroll down the page on this link http://www.armyrecognition.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4733 there's a couple more pics of a dozer fitted Chally II Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kspriss Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Nice pics! Confirms the theory that dozer equipped challys are attached to the command platoon...all command challys have 3 whip aerials on the turret instead if the more usual 2 Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benskipper Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 just as an aside, the side armour including the turret side and all the bar armour is applied 'in theatre' so UK tanks wouldnt have it fitted.also, all our tanks are now plain green, as it was considered they looked too aggressive with black camoflage markings....or so my mate tells me who is ex-2RTR HTH steve Tanks agressive in black & green? Tanks could be any colour (look good in yellow I reckon) and they're still agressive looking...their tanks it's what they DO! I feel the RTR's shame. Who ever came up with that gem deserves an OBE for sure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sampanzer Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 I believe the all-green colour is standard NATO Green, whereas when it was green-and-black the green was a little darker (may even have been bronze green). Tamiya offer NATO Green as XF-67 or TS-61. Hi, I've been out of the army for almost 10 years so this may be irrelevant now, or at least out of date, but we only had one colour of green no matter what we painted, be it land rovers, APC's, tool boxes or the grass...... Perhaps the green looks darker alongside the black? I'm partially colour blind so its all grey to me! Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Flangemeister Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 ... we only had one colour of green no matter what we painted, be it land rovers, APC's, tool boxes or the grass......Perhaps the green looks darker alongside the black? ... I think you're right Sam, the green usually does look darker alongside the black, very much an optical illusion. The various softskins parked around Aldershot seem to be in the same green with or without the black. Although the latest MAN trucks seem a little more brown to my eyes, but that's going off topic... Cheers Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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