Kari, so nice to hear from you. My car—my personal command vehicle—is overheating again, so I am distracted, perhaps I should be building a model to combat the distraction, but I feel cabin fever is upon me. Soon I must leave the apartment.
Yes. You are right. It is a small armored vehicle. Small and fast. I am thinking mainly about the way the canouflage was applied to the vehicle. To understand this, I will take the information from Carlos (thanks again) and the evidence of the photographs and create a document in time specific to June 1942. I am also doing time specific with the other open projects—year, month if known.
So—there is factory color, camouflage color, unit markings, commander’s personal markings (one side red with white outline, the other side a white outline), a heavy, heavy, heavy coating of mud and the heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy coating of dust overall. I also am seeing a concentration of mud fore and aft which appears applied to further camouflage the vehicle from aerial attack. These areas are on the high sides of the vehicle as well as its hood.
I found this digital model online. The desert tan looks off to me. Ditto the areas of transition between base layer and camo. However the feeling of layering itself looks pretty good.
