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T-34/76 Mod Info Help,
Max_Fischer
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Posted: Saturday, July 23, 2005 - 05:09 PM UTC
For my birthday today i got Dragons T-34/76,
This is my first time i actually will be doing russian armor at all,
My question is what will the base coat be? Im guessing green, but it doesnt looks right. Do you guys have any suggestions?

I plan on doing the 1st Guards Brigade near moscow March 1942, It has the base coat and some white striples, can anyone explain to me why they had something like that? And were they place there for a certain Reason?
inopia
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Posted: Saturday, July 23, 2005 - 09:24 PM UTC
Hi Max,
I dont have the Dragon T-34 but their JS tanks recommend Gunze H309 dark green. I tend to feel that the generic "dark/ olive/ Russian green" is way too dark when on a 1/35 model. Maquette T-34 kits give a shade equivilent to FS 14151, while Ospray Modelling Manual 16 on the T-34 series gives a variety of options, an FS 34102 which matches Humbrol 117 US light green( ), Testors/ Modelmaster 1713, Floquil M199, Gunze H330(again.. ..) or possibly your best bet, a mix of Tamiya acrylics XF 61 Dark Green, XF 58 Olive Green, XF 49 Khaki in 60/20/10 % respectively with shades of dark yellow, earth andred-brown..add according to taste! So...You have a fair amount of latitude I guess :-)
Remember that a base Red Oxide primer would be used too. Regards the white stripe, Im guessing this is on the turret roof and not the horizontal bands painted around the turrets later in the war ie. the battle of Berlin?? These are for air identification , sometimes a plain white stripe or triangle, sometimes with coloured markings, commonly a yellow roundel..I dont know if this might help..
http://armor.kiev.ua/Tanks/WWII/T34/
inopia
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Posted: Saturday, July 23, 2005 - 11:21 PM UTC
http://wwiitanks.tripod.com/ussr.html
http://www.battlefield.ru/misc/camo_r.html
http://www.aviapress.com/viewonekit.htm?OTH-203
http://www.aviapress.com/viewonekit.htm?ARV-005
all have some colour plates of camouflage and markings of T-34s,
http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=4630
http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=5289
some general info and a few more photos..
blaster76
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Posted: Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 06:45 AM UTC
I took Model Masters enamals Russian Armor Green #2199 and MM #1786 Medium Green and blended a color I liked. Kept that slightly bluish tone of the Russian Green and faded it with the medium. Then weathering and spray flat toned it a bit more.
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