Ww2 British afvs

Green
• xf-62 + xf-61
• xf-62 (3) + xf-49 (2)

Alternative colours:

Lifecolor 221FS34088 Khaki Olive Drab
Lifecolor 224 Faded Olive Drab
Lifecolor 206 Olive Green (over Tamiya Deep Green xf-26 as primer). Add Lifecolor 202 for colour modulation

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British Olive Green (SCC15)
xf-81 (5) + xf-58 (1) + xf-71 (1)

Khaki Green
xf-62 (3) + xf-59 (2)

Brown (SCC2) > Replaces Khaki Green from late 1941
xf-68 (5) + xf-3 (4) + xf-1 (1)

Dark Green G4
xf-61 (3) + xf-58 (2)

Silver Grey (BS 28) > one of the colours used with Slate in the Caunter scheme. From 1940 to 1941
xf-21 (7) + xf-19 (1) + xf-4 (1)

Slate (BS 34)
xf-24 + xf-4

Green (SCC 7) used for canvas/soft-skinned vehicles
xf-62 + xf-67 + xf-3

Portland Stone (BS 64)
xf-2 (6) + xf-3 (1) + xf-57 (1)

Light Stone (BS 61) 1940-1943
xf-2 (7) + xf-59 (2) + xf-3 (2)

Jungle Green (SCC 13) – used in Burma and India. Good also for Chinese and Indian Sherman V
xf-51 (2) + xf-61 (1) + xf-3 (1)

Dark Tarmac #4 – replaces Dark Green G4 in 1941
xf-24 + xf-69

Reference photos – Ambush Camouflage (Hinterhalt-Tarnung)

By August 1944, the Wehrmacht was mostly on the defensive. The Allies had broken out of their Normandy beachhead while the Red Army was rampaging westward after the success of Operation Bagration. During this change in fortune, the Allied air power proved decisive; making movement during daylight hours near impossible and menacing the trapped German forces mercilessly during the encirclement at Falaise.

It was during this time that the German tank factories were instructed to apply a new type camouflage scheme as part of the manufacturing process. The scheme become known as Hinterhalt-Tarnung or Ambush camouflage and was designed to aid in the concealment of combat vehicles under trees and other such foliage.

 

“Dot” pattern. Colours are: base of dunkelgelb with Olivgrun and Rotbraun pathces and dots

“Disc” camouflage pattern

On a Panther

On a StuG IV

Reference infos – TUSK (Tank Urban Survival Kit)

TUSK stands for “Tank Urban Survival Kit,” and represents the American approach to the problem of employing tanks in urban situations where weapons elevation, protection placement, and other design elements aren’t designed to cope with key threats.

M1A1, M1A2, M1A2 SEP
The TUSK includes add-on explosive reactive armor, fitted to side skirts. It provides protection against RPG rounds. A slat armor is added to the hull rear. It also provides protection against RPG rounds.
Additionally this tank is fitted with 32 dischargers for 66-mm defensive grenades. These dischargers are loaded with a combination of smoke and anti-personnel grenades. Previously US Army tanks were fitted only with 12 grenade dischargers.
Vehicle commander has got a transparent shielding around his 12.7-mm machine gun. The latest M1A2 SEP tanks are fitted with remotely controlled weapon station, armed with a 12.7-mm machine gun. It is controlled by the vehicle commander from inside of the turret. So vehicle commander is no longer exposed to enemy fire. Loader uses a shielded 7.62-mm machine gun. The loader has also got a thermal weapon sight. Now he can locate targets and fire from his machine gun at night.
The tank is fitted with one more remotely controlled 12.7-mm machine gun over the main gun. It is fitted with a spotlight. This machine gun is referred as counter sniper and anti-material weapon. It fires single shots or in full-auto mode. It is aimed using the main gun.
There is also a 7.62-mm coaxial machine gun. So in total the tank has got for machine guns.

Vehicle commander has got a 360 degree camera. It improves situational awareness. The driver is fitted with new safety sear and rear vision camera.
The tank is fitted with an infantry phone. It allows the nearby infantry to communicate with the tank commander and coordinate their actions in combat.

Reference infos – Zimmerit

Zimmerit was a non-magnetic coating produced for German armored fighting vehicles during World War II for the purpose of combating magnetically attached anti-tank mines. It was developed by the German company Chemische Werke Zimmer AG.

The coating was a barrier that prevented direct contact of magnetic mines with metal surfaces of vehicles. It was normally ridged to increase overall thickness. The magnetostatic field decreases very rapidly, with the cube of distance; the non-magnetic coating holds the magnet of the mine too far from the steel of the vehicle for it to adhere.

Application of Zimmerit was usually done at the factory. The many variations seen in application designs, from the regular ridge-shaped pattern, to a less common waffle-shaped pattern, are mostly related to the factory producing each type of AFV. For example, the waffle pattern was seen almost exclusively on Sturmgeschütz III assault guns. In general, vehicles already in service were not coated with Zimmerit.

Zimmerit was discontinued from factory application on 9 September 1944 and from field application on 7 October 1944. This was due to concerns that projectile impacts could ignite it. These proved false, but the order was never rescinded. Applying and drying the paste added days to the production of each vehicle, which was unacceptable as there was a shortage of tanks.