Flakpanzer Gepard desert camo scheme - help needed

[MrBowcat]

Hi guys,

I'm currently building the Meng Gepard. When I was researching paint schemes I came across mention of a German Army 3 colour desert camo scheme in relation to the Takom kit. Having a look at the instyuctions online I can't see any mention of this and I wondered if anyone had built this kit, and if so happened to know what colours were used?

Cheers in advance for any help.


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[schweinhund227]

Usually... Modern Geman Bundeswehr vehicles are painted in NATO 3 tone camouflage scheme...

From that scheme.... the Geman Bundeswehr "desert scheme" is derived from!
and if "expediently applied" in the field? 2nd line maintenance even!

Take any NATO 3 tone schemes on any German vehicles and replace all NATO black outlines with solid NATO Green and ALL NATO Green and NATO Brown outline ( combined ) and paint those in solid German Sand Beige color. so Modern Desert Geman Bundeswehr vehicles have 2 tones. at one point they had a 3rd shade of light brown but I think it has been dropped since.

and you would end up with a pretty accurate Desert Paint scheme for Afghanistan deployed vehicles... more research might be needed ?

[MrBowcat]

Thanks for that. The paint scheme was apparently a one off for a vehicle tested in Cyprus, I haven't been able to find much info on it but have been looking at other Cypriot AFV's.