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what is correct colour to paint german fuel drums ?
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 9:12 pm
by tiger tiger
Hi chaps , im adding some stowage to one of my tiger 1 ,what is the correct colour the germans painted their fuel drums in ww2, help please want to get it right lol. Thank you in anticipation.
regards stu ( tiger tiger )
Re: what is correct colour to paint german fuel drums ?
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 4:25 am
by tao
Hey Stu..This is what I was able to dig up..hope it helps!
German 200l fuel barrels were mostly galvanised steel which were not painted.
full size photo can be found on
http://www.history.jp/wehrmacht/
As far as I am aware the only barrels that were painted were non-galvanised steel examples produced in 1944 and 1945 which exist in dark yellow and dark green.
early war = grey
late war = dark yellow
Re: what is correct colour to paint german fuel drums ?
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 4:28 am
by tao
Re: what is correct colour to paint german fuel drums ?
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 10:17 am
by tiger tiger
Thanks for the help and information tao, that helps a lot.
regards stuart