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About the Project
For the Motherland! Well ... not mine of course. This project will document my progress (or lack thereof ;)) of my Soviet army.
Related Game: Flames of War: The World War II Miniatures Game
Related Company: Battlefront Miniatures
Related Genre: Historical
This Project is Active
Soviet camouflage and markings
Soviets tanks are green or white … right ?
Well, let’s do a little more research first.
https://www.beastsofwar.com/forums/topic/soviet-tank-colours-and-markings/
Links discussed :
http://www.wio.ru/tank/oz/oz-en.htm
https://www.o5m6.de/redarmy/camouflage.php
Summary so far :
Yes, Green was the standard. White was winter camouflage which was applied by the crews themselves with whatever was handy. As such don’t expect any pure white perfect patterns. It will be interesting to see if this can be replicated at scale.
What, how and why ?
At first WW 2 was these things :
(1) May ’40 : the invasion by the (evil) Germans
(2) Battle of Britain
(3) D-Day
That kind of changed when a flight simulator called IL2 Sturmovik was released.
Instead of Spitfires and P51’s there were Soviet aircraft of all shapes and sizes, including the IL2 Sturmovik.
It was effectively my introduction to the eastern front of WW2.
So when I discovered Flames of War … Soviets it was.
Of course it helps that their camouflage is either all green or white and that they don’t appear to have any complex marking scheme for their units like the British 😉
Anyways … enough talk.
Links for inspiration first :
https://il2sturmovik.com/about/
And a great series that shows WW2 from the Soviet perspective :
https://youtu.be/97iOxxH_64s
