I find the following pic of considerable interest as it show two vehicles in the same pic, under the same lighting conditions, but the DUKW in a VERY brownish OD, and the 3/4 ton in the more usual OD:

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I find the following pic of considerable interest as it show two vehicles in the same pic, under the same lighting conditions, but the DUKW in a VERY brownish OD, and the 3/4 ton in the more usual OD:

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Hi, Biggles!!!

Thank You Very Much for posting these wartime photos of the Normandy battle areas and of the US & German Vehicles, the GIs, the surrounding areas of the conflict and of course some of the native French populace! How and where did you get hold of these photos?

BTW- Regarding the different OLIVE DRABS in the color photo-

First of all, THERE IS NO SUCH THING as "the more usual OD"...

Second- Haven't I been saying FOR YEARS that there is NO SUCH THING as a "uniform Olive Drab" ever since I first joined in with you guys..? The "Panzer Boys" who always say that "OD is ALWAYS ONE and the SAME, and the US/Allied fans should take note:

HERE IS YOUR PROOF!!! (So here's a big, long, drawn-out RASPBERRY for you!!!)

If you still doubt, go back and read "First of all" and "Second-" over again, and get your noses up real close to your screens and take another look at the color photo that Biggles so kindly posted...

You can have different shades of my beloved Olive Drab on three different US vehicles in a dio that only contains three different vehicles! You can even have several different shades of OD on the same vehicle, because different components of the same vehicle were manufactured in different factories, ergo, different batches of paint were used, and these different batches of paint were manufactured in different paint factories!

And then, there are the different Field-applied camouflage schemes, and replacement parts, sometimes even whole Turrets, to consider. Olive Drab is all the same or "the usual"..?

So you can take your TAMIYA XF-62 and do something untoward with it!!!

Thank You, Biggles! You just made my weekend!

Hi, Biggles!!!

Thank You Very Much for posting these wartime photos of the Normandy battle areas and of the US & German Vehicles, the GIs, the surrounding areas of the conflict and of course some of the native French populace! How and where did you get hold of these photos?

I downloaded these (and many more) from a French site some 20 years ago. The site has disappeared, or at least I can't find it, long ago.

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I downloaded these (and many more) from a French site some 20 years ago. The site has disappeared, or at least I can't find it, long ago.

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I believe it was probably "Archives Normandie 1939-1945". When the site closed down in 2013 for lack of funds, all the period pics that were hosted there (5000+...) were then gathered by Michel Le Querrec and Patrick Peccatte (who corrected many erroneous captions with the help of other Internet users) and used to create a new site, Photosnormandie.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/photosnormandie/

Michel Le Querrec sadly passed away last January.

http://clioweb.canalblog.com/tag/photosnormandie

H.P.

Look who's happy to have been captured alive and seemingly without serious wounds


The GI's still have to continue fighting ...

Hint to diorama builders, prisoners can be happier than those who captured them

Look who's happy to have been captured alive and seemingly without serious wounds

Not sure anyone doubts there were different shades of OD, and if they do they'd be wrong-- for all the reasons Dennis has said, and one more important reason as well-- the US Army, up until the initiation of CARC paint in the late 80s, had a tendency to use gasoline to thin paint when normal paint thinners were unavailable. This automatically changed the shade of OD, and other paint as well. Combined with different lots, manufacturers and numerous repaints, you could find different shades on the same vehicle.
VR, Russ

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I downloaded these (and many more) from a French site some 20 years ago. The site has disappeared, or at least I can't find it, long ago.

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I believe it was probably "Archives Normandie 1939-1945". When the site closed down in 2013 for lack of funds, all the period pics that were hosted there (5000+...) were then gathered by Michel Le Querrec and Patrick Peccatte (who corrected many erroneous captions with the help of other Internet users) and used to create a new site, Photosnormandie.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/photosnormandie/

Michel Le Querrec sadly passed away last January.

http://clioweb.canalblog.com/tag/photosnormandie

H.P.

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Not sure anyone doubts there were different shades of OD, and if they do they'd be wrong-- for all the reasons Dennis has said, and one more important reason as well-- the US Army, up until the initiation of CARC paint in the late 80s, had a tendency to use gasoline to thin paint when normal paint thinners were unavailable. This automatically changed the shade of OD, and other paint as well. Combined with different lots, manufacturers and numerous repaints, you could find different shades on the same vehicle.
VR, Russ

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Not sure I follow. For purposes of OD variation on US vehicles during WW2, the only variation was caused by slightly different types of OD paint being applied at the factory during manufacturing and rest assured, the factories weren't using gasoline to thin this paint. They were held to a very precise specification on paint finishes. There was also very little re-painting of vehicles in the field. Typically, they had a pretty short life span once deployed (either wore out or were lost in combat) and were simply scrapped and replaced. Although there are always exceptions to the rule, this wasn't the German army. If a vehicle wore out, it wasn't refurbished, repainted, etc, it was simply replaced with a new one.