Just want to know if anyone had info on the colour of british tank crew uniforms, mostly in winter. i've got a couple of figure i'm going to use in a diorama.

Blissfully ignorant I'm afraid. I am assuming WWII era? Tamiya in the instructions for the Churchill suggests - Dark Green - but that doesn't gel with me.

I chased up something on the net a while ago about British Army uniforms - if I can find it again I willcheck to see whether there is anything on tankers uniforms there.

Brian

yeah that would be great. amost every picture i've found of tank crew figures are different colours so i don't know their true uniform colour. Yes they are ww2

hello,
pre-WW2 tank crews had a black two piece uniform, this was worn into 1940/41 but also throughout the war for maintainance or fatigue work if the crews had them. The later uniforms (from '43 onwards in winter would be the one piece tanksuit aka. "pixie" suit) were "standard" colours for the theatre of ops (for N.W. Europe nominally "Khaki" )but varied widely from a light khaki,khaki-green, earth brown to shades of buff or nearly pink. There was also a cammo version of the 1943 oversuit but ive no pics of the pattern. Far as i know there was no winter cammo clothing for British AFV crews but this may have been improvised as it was with some infantry units. Berets were black for most, some units still wore khaki and 11th Hussars wore a dark brown/cherry red type, webbing and field kit was standard, boots-black-though officers could wear brown shoes. The leather jerkin was used and there were a wide range of colouful unit flashes,patches, dress side-caps etc..down to research for individual units for that stuff though. The books listed below are excellent and the "Digger History" site lists suitable Osprey books that might be useful. Hope thats some help to you.


British Army Uniforms and Insignia of World War 2
by Brian L Davis, published by Arms and Armour Press,
ISBN 0-85368-609-2

Tank and AFV Crew Uniforms since 1916
by Martin Winterton and Gerry Embleton, published by Patrick Stephens Ltd,
ISBN 0-85059-362-x / 0-85059-363-8

Oh no jsut when we thought we had broken away from our motherland ties they invade our forums :-) :-) :-)

thanks inopia
I know there was no actual winter camo, i just a general colour scheme for the uniforms.