Meng 1/35 French Main Battle Tank AMX-30B

[Jeeves]

Excellent! Thank you!

[Stikpusher]

Your welcome! Any updates on your project here?

[Jeeves]

Not since the sand color was added- not yet

Soooo....wherever I had read that the Bosnian tank schemes were faded NATO schemes seem to be a bit off then, eh? Are the pics you posted somewhat current or were they from the wars in the 90s? Just in case others ask

Not much for markings on these either that I can tell.....one I had seen in the mix you posted looked to have had the plate number marking similar to the French ones only preceded by a Bosnian flag...Lord knows where I might be able to get those lol

[Stikpusher]

From what I can tell, the Bosnian Federation Army vehicles all seem to be in the paint scheme of whoever owned them previously. NATO three color, OD, various solid greens, etc. do an image search for Bosnian Federation Army tank to see.

[Jeeves]

And just when we think we have everything figured out I find another pic- this was of a tank in Bosnia under repairs...as cool and easy as the two tone desert scheme is, I'm not one to go easy-- so I may just go with the tri-color scheme...because I hate myself

[Jeeves]

And here's the first coat of the three after the coat of salt to chip to the sand scheme....

[Thomas_M]

Mike, how are you doing the running gear? After the upper hull has been finished painting?

[Jeeves]

Hi Thomas...

From a couple of profiles I have seen of the NATO scheme, it's flat black down below-- and then I plan on weathering the bottom to look more in alignment with the pic you see posted above....

[Jeeves]

My bad- I meant NATO Black

[Stikpusher]

The vehicle in the three color scheme you posted looks to be a variant of the AMX-30, with something in place of the turret. It may have come from French stocks, in which case the colors are slightly different from NATO. The green and brown are lighter and brighter than that used by US, Germany, Netherlands, etc.