US Army MERDC Camouflage Pattern Skin Pack

[Royohboy]

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US Army MERDC Camouflage Pattern Skin Pack

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MERDC is the camouflage scheme used by the US military from the late 1970s to the mid 1980s, and before the introduction of the current 3-tone pattern NATO pattern. There were several regional and seasonal MERDC variations, of which I have included the two commonly seen in Germany back then.

 

If you'd like your WWIII to take place at a time when the F-15 was brand-spanking new, when everybody was scared of an all-out nuclear war, and when practically every F-16 model kit featured either prototype or pre-production aircraft, this one is for you.

 

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• Submitter
  Royohboy
• Submitted
  01/12/2009
• Category
  Ground Objects Mods

 

[+Dave]

These are bad ass! Thanks.

[BattlerBritain]

Wow - this is really good.

 

And it makes a great reference for painting GHQ tanks as well :)

 

Cheers Dood.

[Royohboy]

You mean you paint 1/285th scale tanks in MERDC pattern? I found it tedious in 1/87th already...

However, as a reference I'd rather use http://www.panzerbaer.de/, or google the vehicle-name + MERDC in Google image search, and use the very detailed b/w schematic drawings that often come up (and from which most of these skins are derived; taking shortcuts, though). I would especially advise against using the M1 Abrams skin as a reference, as I haven't been able to find any camouflage plan at all for that one.

[BattlerBritain]

Yeah - MERDC at 1/285th can be fun. I think I got that link to MERDC patterns. There was a good discussion over at the GHQ forums on modern US colours at http://www.ghqmodels.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2835

 

WW2 German patterns can be fun as well. Here's one I prepared earlier:

 

Enjoy!