From:	Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject:	Questions of great importance (Steve, Jon, RA:S people especially)
Date:	Thu, 2 Sep 1999 21:36:31 +0200

According to Ereskanti@***.com, at 8:52 on 2 Sep 99, the word on
the street was...

> Interesting, we just ran across a small convoy of about 4-5 vehicles in a
> MUCH darker color, almost black-level green. Really different IMO.

The shade of modern militarty paints varies a lot with the way light falls
onto them, as well as with wear and how much they were thinned before
being sprayed on the vehicle. For instance, according to one ex-British
Army tanker, in his platoon they tended to paint two Chieftain MBTs with
paint thinned with gasoline, and the third with paint-colored gasoline.

In short, there is no such thing as a single color that all military
vehicles of any given country are -- no matter how much some people try to
tell you otherwise. (This, BTW, is a favorite flame war among military
modellers -- "That's not the right color green on that model!" "Yes it
is!" "No it isn't!" etc....)

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