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Hot Research Topics => Camouflage, Colors, and Markings => Topic started by: Cobra on March 17, 2012, 02:10:38 AM

Title: Cars,Camouflage,paint Query
Post by: Cobra on March 17, 2012, 02:10:38 AM
Hey Guys, i was listening to country song once,and there was a Mention of a Chevy Cavalier in Camouflage! has Anyone ever Painted a Model car or a Real Car in a Camouflage Paint Scheme? i know it sounds Bonkers(and i Don't mean the Cartoon Character :lol:),but thought i'd ask. What say You? Thanks for Looking.Dan
Title: Re: Cars,Camouflage,paint Query
Post by: Hobbes on March 17, 2012, 04:09:26 AM
It's been done in real life:

(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm2.staticflickr.com%2F1152%2F4621788441_0a377e1d8b_z.jpg&hash=4deebd62503a874041ecebdb1b29215cc2ef200e)

And there are loads more:

https://www.google.com/search?q=car%20camo&safe=active&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=hHBkT4yxKsecOvX1lI0I&biw=1173&bih=525&sei=h3BkT9vuGZCdOtHcuZAI (https://www.google.com/search?q=car%20camo&safe=active&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=hHBkT4yxKsecOvX1lI0I&biw=1173&bih=525&sei=h3BkT9vuGZCdOtHcuZAI)
Title: Re: Cars,Camouflage,paint Query
Post by: perttime on March 17, 2012, 05:13:09 AM
Quote from: Hobbes on March 17, 2012, 04:09:26 AMAnd there are loads more:

https://www.google.com/search?q=car%20camo&safe=active&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=hHBkT4yxKsecOvX1lI0I&biw=1173&bih=525&sei=h3BkT9vuGZCdOtHcuZAI (https://www.google.com/search?q=car%20camo&safe=active&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=hHBkT4yxKsecOvX1lI0I&biw=1173&bih=525&sei=h3BkT9vuGZCdOtHcuZAI)
There's some pretty camo schemes there. The problem with most is that they totally ignore one of the basic principles of camo: disrupting the shape of whatever you are trying to camouflage.
Title: Re: Cars,Camouflage,paint Query
Post by: AXU on March 17, 2012, 05:30:30 AM
Heee I did three,but are inspired by aircraft... ;D http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,30741.0.html

Alex

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Title: Re: Cars,Camouflage,paint Query
Post by: Joe C-P on September 06, 2012, 06:31:18 PM
Missed this thread. Didn't we have a group build suggestion for civilian vehicles in military service?
Title: Re: Cars,Camouflage,paint Query
Post by: wagnersm on September 06, 2012, 07:48:11 PM
Quote from: Cobra on March 17, 2012, 02:10:38 AM
Hey Guys, i was listening to country song once,and there was a Mention of a Chevy Cavalier in Camouflage! has Anyone ever Painted a Model car or a Real Car in a Camouflage Paint Scheme? i know it sounds Bonkers(and i Don't mean the Cartoon Character :lol:),but thought i'd ask. What say You? Thanks for Looking.Dan

An advertisement for the Triumph Spitfire MkIII had it painted in WWII RAF Camo. 

http://www.triumphspitfire.nl/salesliterature/IMG_0042.jpg
Title: Re: Cars,Camouflage,paint Query
Post by: scooter on September 07, 2012, 03:13:30 AM
One of the AF Viper display teams has a Dodge Viper convertible done up as a Lawn Dart, similar to the P-47'd Viper.
Title: Re: Cars,Camouflage,paint Query
Post by: The Wooksta! on September 07, 2012, 03:26:16 AM
I've a part built Lindberg 24th scale Triumph GT (coupe version of the SPitfire) that'll be going in PRU Blue eventually.
Title: Re: Cars,Camouflage,paint Query
Post by: Go4fun on September 07, 2012, 07:51:47 AM
I started this but ran out of steam due to other projects.
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It's a gun truck having to do with my story "The Tractors Wars: Battle For A free Kansas" I'm putting out on facebook in a group named "Tractor Wars".
Feel free to browse thru or download it.
Title: Re: Cars,Camouflage,paint Query
Post by: Dizzyfugu on September 07, 2012, 10:03:09 AM
I know from a 1980ies real world Ford Fiesta which had been owned by a book author who had published a very good and detailed book about German WWI/II tank camouflage - and he had his private car painted in "Ambush/Hinterhalt" colors (pale sand, olive green and red brown)...
Title: Re: Cars,Camouflage,paint Query
Post by: bagera3005 on October 05, 2012, 07:21:31 PM
Quote from: Hobbes on March 17, 2012, 04:09:26 AM
It's been done in real life:

(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm2.staticflickr.com%2F1152%2F4621788441_0a377e1d8b_z.jpg&hash=4deebd62503a874041ecebdb1b29215cc2ef200e)

And there are loads more:

https://www.google.com/search?q=car%20camo&safe=active&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=hHBkT4yxKsecOvX1lI0I&biw=1173&bih=525&sei=h3BkT9vuGZCdOtHcuZAI (https://www.google.com/search?q=car%20camo&safe=active&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=hHBkT4yxKsecOvX1lI0I&biw=1173&bih=525&sei=h3BkT9vuGZCdOtHcuZAI)

What I Would Not Wish on My Worst Enemy smart car would not even need an rpg to take it out
Title: Re: Cars,Camouflage,paint Query
Post by: pyro-manic on October 06, 2012, 12:06:19 PM
Nothing wrong with a Smart if you're after a city runabout. Not much cop on a motorway, but it's not designed for that.
Title: Re: Cars,Camouflage,paint Query
Post by: dadlamassu on October 06, 2012, 01:41:53 PM
Ice cream tank
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Title: Re: Cars,Camouflage,paint Query
Post by: NARSES2 on October 07, 2012, 01:24:50 AM
Where the hecks that fully tracked Mr Softee from ???  ;D
Title: Re: Cars,Camouflage,paint Query
Post by: Hobbes on October 07, 2012, 05:38:46 AM
That one's photoshopped, Chris
Title: Re: Cars,Camouflage,paint Query
Post by: Weaver on October 07, 2012, 05:43:33 AM
It's from the Photoshop custom garage - bloody fine idea though!  ;D

You could imagine a bunch of dirty, miserable-looking refugee urchins cowering in a basement, listening to the ominous engine roar and squeaking and clanking sounds as a tracked AFV aproaches their hiding place, closer and closer..... then it stops. Then there's a hydraulic sound, such as might be made, for example, by large armoured side flaps opening. Another ominous silence, then....

.....a plinkety-plonkety version of Greensleeves....

The kids faces light up and they run outside to greet the humanitarians of the Red Cone Society, bringing frozen, fruity relief to a war zone near you.... ;D :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Cars,Camouflage,paint Query
Post by: NARSES2 on October 08, 2012, 01:04:08 AM
Quote from: Hobbes on October 07, 2012, 05:38:46 AM
That one's photoshopped, Chris

Cheers Harro, now you've told me I can see it...just  :blink:

I had a similar idea as you Weaver  ;D
Title: Re: Cars,Camouflage,paint Query
Post by: Gondor on October 08, 2012, 02:06:30 AM
So who is going to build one?

Gondor
Title: Re: Cars,Camouflage,paint Query
Post by: matrixone on November 13, 2012, 02:32:31 PM
Here are some 1/48 scale ground vehicles I built just a few years ago, the VW and Steyr are what ifs in non standard camo.
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Matrixone