Painting an old truck an accurate US military tan color...

[HDN]

I'm considering the purchase of a 1972 deuce, and my wife wants to have it painted tan. I feel like that's more of a modern color considering the current active battlefields, but I'm thinking there was a flat tan paint scheme for desert combat in the 1970s. Does anyone know of or have any references for tan army trucks and their markings in the 1970s onward?

 

[Ten bits]

I found this site, looks like what you may be looking for...

https://sites.google.com/site/merdccamo/home/merdcpic

 

[montaillou]

If you're looking for authentic...

http://www.jatonkam35s.com/DeuceTechnicalManuals/m35a2_camo.pdf

http://www.jatonkam35s.com/DeuceTechnicalManuals/TB43-0147.pdf

http://www.jatonkam35s.com/DeuceTechnicalManuals/TB 43-0209.PDF

 

[Katavic918]

Didn't they have tan a3's in Desert Storm?

 

[HDN]

Thanks for the sources! So are all-tan vehicles more of a recent thing? I see many tan FMTVs and HMMWVs driving around where I live.

 

[BKubu]

There were M44 series vehicles used in the first Gulf War. My computer crashed so I lost many of my saved pictures, but I had several pictures of deuces from that conflict. I even had one of an M44 fire truck pulling a heavy trailer. As I recall, that naturally aspirated truck was putting out quite a smoke trail.

 

[BKubu]

I had a tan M35A2 that was painted for that conflict, although I have no way of knowing if it actually made it over there or was just painted in preparation. It was a seriously rushed paint job, though, so it could have been used over there.

 

[frank8003]

https://www.militarytrader.com/military-vehicles-news/carc_chemical_agent_resistant_coating

View attachment TB 43-0242_carc.pdf

Just click on the black box and it should work.

Not much can be done. The preview (thumbnail) is generated with a 3rd party app. It tries to take a "screenshot" so to say of the PDF. Some PDF's work fine, others simply blackscreen when it tries to do it, but they will open with a click.

 

[M813rc]

All three of the attached are in theater during the Desert Storm era. Some vehicles went over in tan, most went over in whatever paint they were wearing and got repainted over there, or never got painted at all. The ones painted tan got anything from a slop on job with a broom, to a neatly applied spray job. Depended on what unit had what equipment available, and how much time they had.

One appears to be MERDEC Winter Verdant, and has the troop seats reversed so they are on the outside of the bed as cargo racks.

The second is in 686 tan.

The third is overall 34094, the 383 camo green.

Cheers

 

[Gralmk]

Yes

 

[11Echo]

A link to a previous thread.

https://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?151156-What-color&p=1840266&highlight=MERDC#post1840266