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Icey
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PostPosted: 20:25 - 24 Jun 2009    Post subject: UK/Armed Forces/British Forces - Decals Reply with quote
Random question for anyone that is a nut.

Do the vehicles have any specific decals on the roof? Or are they plain?

Can anyone dig any pictures up ? I've tried googling but can't find anything.
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PostPosted: 20:27 - 24 Jun 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
normally a big orange panel to try and stop the yanks bombing 'em Rolling Eyes

seriously tho no idea
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PostPosted: 20:32 - 24 Jun 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
NATO?
UN?
British flag?

Don't recall anything else, maybe a black rat for desert rats.

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https://www.intell.rtaf.mi.th/intellFilesUpload/intellnews/48774-01.jpg

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Icey
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PostPosted: 20:34 - 24 Jun 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
No numbers etc?

Desert rat... excellent idea, but don't know if it would work on Nato Green?

Maybe that will be saved for 2011 Laughing
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PostPosted: 20:36 - 24 Jun 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Edited with pic, serial numbers quite common.

And maybe the number of the tank within the group like this one.

https://www.anticsonline.co.uk/l.aspx?k=1637888
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PostPosted: 20:53 - 24 Jun 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
DaveJPS wrote:
normally a big orange panel to try and stop the yanks bombing 'em Rolling Eyes

seriously tho no idea


Yeh and like that works...... bloody yank pilots Evil or Very Mad Rolling Eyes

To the OP, AFAIK, UK armoured vehicles usually tend to have just the callsign (something like 33B usually in yellow or black stenciling), a small Union Flag back and front ends of the vehicle, in Iraq all UK vehicles had a black chevron on atleast each side to identify them as coalition vehicles, also when part of NATO ops UK vehicles have things like KFOR (in Kosovo) and ISAF (in Afghanistan) stencilled on the sides, occasionally unit insignia such as the Jerboa (sp.?) for the Desert Rats or the Deaths Head for the Lancers are used at any position of the crews choice and also vehicle names quite often are stencilled somewhere near the front of the vehicle, lots of Scottish crewed vehicles tend to have St Andrews cross painted on the side of the turret somewhere Rolling Eyes Laughing !
Can I be nosy and ask what it's for? Very Happy

Hope this helps.
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Icey
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PostPosted: 21:04 - 24 Jun 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Powdermonkey wrote:

Can I be nosy and ask what it's for? Very Happy



Thanks Smile That did help.

It's for a paint scheme next year. Bit fed up of Matt Black now Smile
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PostPosted: 21:08 - 24 Jun 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Icey, I've edited that post to include a little more detail now aswell if you want to have a look!! Is this a new paint scheme for your bike or is it something like a landy??
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PostPosted: 21:13 - 24 Jun 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Powdermonkey wrote:
Is this a new paint scheme for your bike or is it something like a landy??


The Landy is already NATO green Laughing This is for the Mini, its a rotten old heap which was rattle-canned matt black last year when we built it. Next year it will be time for a colour change and NATO green and black stencils are flavour of the month.


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PostPosted: 21:14 - 24 Jun 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Heres a pic aswell of a couple of the things I pointed out:
https://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p47/lowey52/TRUMP_7216_CHALLENGER_2DOZER.jpg
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PostPosted: 21:15 - 24 Jun 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
chrisw wrote:
Powdermonkey wrote:
Is this a new paint scheme for your bike or is it something like a landy??


The Landy is already NATO green Laughing This is for the Mini, its a rotten old heap which was rattle-canned matt black last year when we built it. Next year it will be time for a colour change and NATO green and black stencils are flavour of the month.


Chris
(owner of the vehicles Icey wants to paint)


Ah cool, never seen a NATO green mini before should look pretty cool, and very unique lol!! Good luck with it!
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PostPosted: 23:12 - 24 Jun 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Last time I was in the desert I was stuck with a bright yellow Land Rover, not unlike this one. It didn't blend in with the sand as much as I like to think it did.

https://www.pablanchard.co.uk/photos/Web%20TD5%20Yellow%20110.jpg
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PostPosted: 23:34 - 24 Jun 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
lets not forget the pink panthers

https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3658/3608574678_962871a666.jpg?v=0

https://gallery.kitmaker.net/data/500/pink_panther.jpg
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PostPosted: 12:01 - 25 Jun 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Laughing me, 1994 bosnia
https://i541.photobucket.com/albums/gg389/cammynshirlz/meagain.jpg

think ive got pics of a land rover in belfast somewhere
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PostPosted: 13:36 - 25 Jun 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
colin1 wrote:
lets not forget the pink panthers


Ah yes, but as cool as these ones look, a pink mini may well get a few curious glances...if you know what I mean Laughing !!
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PostPosted: 15:54 - 25 Jun 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
If you're after something different for a colour scheme I know one of the guys at the local MOT place had a Kawasaki done in realtree camouflage.

It's a dipping process with the body panels, bars, etc. (whatever you want really). IMO a good effect and something a bit different and unique.

Believe he had it done by Hydro-graphics. A showcase of their stuff is here - click on motorcycles Doh!

Not really something you can DIY, unless you want to wrap your bike in the stuff!

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