Modern British Army & RAF AFV Paint Set

British vehicles from bronze green to a desert coat

For most of the postwar era British ground equipment had one dominant color. The deep bronze green 224 covered army vehicles in Europe and in the Far East from 1955 to the beginning of the seventies, and until 1958 the vehicles of the RAF tactical air force carried it too. The RAF units then changed to the blue-gray 633, which lasted on their vehicles from the end of the Second World War to the same period.

Airfields, desert and winter

The golden yellow belonged to machines moving mainly about airfield surfaces, whether on the roofs or overall, and was used until the sixties. The light stone shade 361, on the contrary, is the classic British desert color, which vehicles carried in both of the operations centered on Iraq. From the beginning of the seventies the base became the alliance green 285 with reflectance in the infrared band, over which black disruptive areas were applied; in the desert version the vehicles received it over a stone base.

The last two bottles deal with marginal but rewarding situations. The sand tone FS 30279 was carried by British vehicles under RAF command during the operation in the Persian Gulf, and the washable white serves for the improvised winter camouflage that the crews applied themselves and removed again after the thaw.

• Eight shades of British army and airfield vehicles
• The bronze green and the blue-gray of the fifties
• The alliance green with reflectance in the infrared band
• Two desert colors for the operations in the Persian Gulf
• A washable white for improvised winter camouflage