Shades for American vehicles in Western Europe in 1944 and 1945: the factory olive in several stages of fading, the winter overcoat and the dirt of the Normandy roads.
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The American army made do with a single prescribed finish: the flat olive worn by tanks, tank destroyers, trucks and artillery alike. That seemingly dull answer has a catch for the modeler. The finish changed under sun, rain and the hands of the crew faster than you would expect, and a column of vehicles therefore never looked uniform: a new hull was a deep green-brown, while a machine half a year older read as faded toward khaki.
After the landings, damp Normandy soil worked its way into the finish, and hedgerows scraped the sides. The advance across France brought dust and miles of road, while the winter of 1944 and 1945 brought the improvised white overcoat of whitewash or paint, which soon flaked off. Along with that go the worn places on the fenders, the smoothed edges of hatches and the areas around the mounting points, where the paint disappeared altogether.
Lay the base down in two tones, the deeper one into the shadows and the lighter one on the upper surfaces, and leave the difference noticeable. The white winter layer benefits from being applied unevenly and from having parts of it taken off with a damp brush once dry. Leave the stars and the lettering flat; period vehicles did not shine. Close it off with dust in the shade of the ground the machine is meant to be crossing. One last small thing that gets forgotten: wooden crates, canvas tarpaulins and the personal equipment of the crew were never in the same tone as the hull, so it pays to set them apart by at least a shade.
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