![]() ![]() ![]() I decided that messing around with masking putty was going to take too long so I opted for a soft edge camo using the airbrush unassisted. The few examples of the contemporary three-tone scheme show a hard edged look to the camo. The other two colours I elected to use Vallejo Model Air Panzer Dark Grey for the “Black Grey” and VMA Aggressor Grey” for the “Dusky Grey”. The NATO Green primer did a pretty good job approximating the lighter East German base colour so that provided my first colour. I then noticed I had basically replicated the VSP NATO Green primer so subsequently used that going forward! This was applied to both turret and hull, all over. On the first tanks I used Vallejo Surface Primer Bronze Green then went over this with various shade of green trying to capture the lighter German green that seems to exist. I covered this process on my T-72M way back in 2017 and the methodology still holds up. On the T-72B, I rebuilt the cupola to put the cupola MG to the rear and make the open hatch a bit more true to the real life example. I built the kits pretty much as per the instructions. The implementation orders stipulate the colours (black grey and dusky grey over the standard olive green), that the olive green was to remain uncovered on 45-60% of the tank, that the camo must be asymmetric, aligned at 30 or 60° to the vertical, no patch smaller than 0.5m2 and any hatches should be in the dark colour or in the intersection of two bands. The three-tone was largely left to the crews to execute, with some guidelines. However, a speculative tank could have a rare scheme in my opinion. In reality, this scheme had only been adopted by a small portion of the East German forces (likely less than a single percent) before reunification. One of the things I wanted to do with the T-72B was to paint it in the East German three-tone camo. BF offered to send us a couple boxes of T-72B and SU-17 Fitters so its time to get the paint brushes out and get these bad boys painted. ![]() Recently I have been writing a fair bit on the new T-72B1, including a plan on how to slot it into my existing East German force. ![]()
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