Intro Howdy from Washington State...USA

[GaryDavis]

Hello folks. Ran into this site looking for the 70's MERDC Camo schemes for a scale project that I'm building. I was in the US ARMY from 71-77. MOS was 11D(Cav scout) and 95B( Military Police). I'm going to build ALL of the Vehicles that I had anything to do with while in the service. Which includes...M114A1..M114A1E1...M113 A1....M-60 MBT...M551A1 SHERIDAN...M-106 MORTAR( was not a part of a crew....just dropped a few rounds in the tube...) M151A1 JEEP (Military Police)..1970 Ford 4 dr ( Military Police). I have ALL the scale vehicles in the collection to do these builds. NOW...All I have to do is get to them before I DIE!!! LOL I think this site is really going to be cool to share and get info from.

 

[Bombardier]

Welcome to Mi.Net @GaryDavis glad to have you aboard and looking forward to seeing your models

 

[TheKiwi]

Flames of War have a bunch of MERDC cammo templates for some of those vehicles.

Hobby

MERDC Painting Templates With Chris Townley This Article was written some time ago and while the MERDC scheme hasn't changed

www.flamesofwar.com

 

[GaryDavis]

Hey Bombardier...thanks for the welcome. I'm truly looking forward to sharing and connecting with folks...

 

[GaryDavis]

Flames of War have a bunch of MERDC cammo templates for some of those vehicles.

Hobby

MERDC Painting Templates With Chris Townley This Article was written some time ago and while the MERDC scheme hasn't changed

www.flamesofwar.com

Hey KIWI...thanks for the INFO and LINK. While I was stationed in Germany (the first tour) we had to paint our own vehicles. We had the patterns and the numbers of the colors..ie. 1 for black...2 for sand...3 for med green and 4 for med Brown. We Drew the patterns on with regular chalk(the kind Teacher uses on a Chalk board) and started putting the paint on with a 2" and 4" brush. This was on a M151A1 Jeep mind you. Not an M60 Tank. LOL..... I did paint the M114A1. That took a little longer. Thanks again for the link...

 

[TheKiwi]

You're welcome. I have a small US Army Team Yankee force which I've painted up in MERDC colours as that cammo pattern really symbolises the 1980's to me. Lots of fun to paint too. I really must get me some more units to paint.

As a side note, the NZ Army used the MERDC Red Desert pattern for it's M113's and Scorpions during that period.

 

[TIGREDELAIRE]

hello Gary, greetings from Colombia!

 

[GaryDavis]

Hey Tigredelaire....Thanks for the shout out.

 

[colin traveller]

Hello