With great pain I have read some e-mail's asking questions about the
painting of Military Vehicles and the placing of markings. Not having
the time to answer all the questions I will try to give the best advice
I can here for all to read. The pain I feel is the same that I went
through when I started out in this great hobby, that is until I found
some good reference material.
The Army has published two great Technical Bulletins that anyone in
this hobby should have in their library, they are;
TB 746-93-1, dated October 1964, which is available from Portrayal
Press in reprint.
TB 43-0209, dated October 1976, don't know if Portrayal has this one,
you can try them.
TB 43-0209, dated October 1990, Portrayal has this one, in reprint, it
supersedes the Oct. 1976 edition.
BTW, TB 746-93-1 supersedes the following: TB 9-263, 14 April 1959; TB
ORD 1058, 14 June 1963; TB ORD 2300-10/1, 2 April 1958; TB ORD 677, 17
July 1962; and TB ORD 626, 1 October 1957.
With these manuals you will be able to paint and mark your MV's
according to Army policy, these manuals hold a wealth of information for
anyone that is doing M-series vehicles. Answers on where to place the
National Emblem to bridge plates is all govered in these references.
Now for the disclamer! The Army may have authorized some special and or
additional markings, these of course will not be in these manuals. So
what you see on your vehicle maybe authorized, just copy using the guide
lines in the above manuals. And of course anyone in this hobby has to
accept the fact that there was some paint jobs and markings that are not
authorized but do still show up on many vehicles. An example is the
Chevron painted on some of the Desert Storm vehicles to help prevent
blue-on-blue fire while using night vision goggles.
Only vehicles on the battle front were to get the Chevrons and this was
authorized verbally by the local theater command only. You will notice
that some of the Chevrons go different directions, this was to further
ID the battle group. Now when other rear area groups saw the Chevrons
they painted them on their vehicles too.
The references I listed above list some other publications that will be
of good use too. It is hoped that I have helped in some small way to
further the MV hobby, please let me know if I have; you may e-mail me at
mae3@concentric.net.
MVPA #12561
-- SSG Michael (Mikey) A. EllithorpMaintenance Platoon Sergeant, USAR Observer Controler CSS/Team 3 3d Bn, 363d Regt, 3d Bde 91st Division (E)
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