Dodge D15 camouflage pattern pictures?

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Hi Erwin,

Great to see your D15 restored! It must have been a tremendous amout of work; well done!

As for camouflage patterns, as said earlier I would opt for a nice Italian theatre scheme, introduced in April 1943, which used bold patterns of black, or SCC 7 (a dark olive green), over a base of SCC 5 "Light Mud", plus an air recognition roundel on the roof. Buy Mr. Starmer's books for contemporary camouflage schemes and colour paint chips so you can have the correct colours mixed up.

Perhaps except for the odd mistake, you will not find trucks with roundels painted on the bonnet. Go for one on the roof as intended.

Hope this helps,
Hanno

Originally Posted by Mike Starmer

Roundels as Air Recognition Signs were introduced in July 1942 for 8th Army vehicles. Optimum size was 10in centre red disc with 10in wide circles of white and blue. Yellow outer was 60% width of circles. i.e. 6in. Where there was insufficient room for this size then a roundel of smaller size and same proportions was to be used. Yellow may be omitted if that colour paint was not available. Placement was to be on any permanent upturned surface like hull decking, cab roof or solid lorry body. However in practice it was placed on canvas hoods were the vehicle was a COE type and open rear as on bridging vehicles.
The colours were not the dull RAF shades but bright shades as used for unit AoS etc. This roundel was used by 8th Army and Commonwealth forces in Sicily and Italy until cancelled in about April 1944 when the white star was generally adopted. Having written that, a white star was placed on tanks and vehicles of 48 RTR in Tunisia in Nov. 1942 and a number of other units seem to have adopted it too during that campaign.

[Erwin]

for the roundel info. Your answers are always precise!!!!!!!!!!!!:-)))
Sorry for yesterday evening! :-((

Just contacted Mike Starmer and ordererd the Sicily/Italy book.

Anyway:
I still appreciate

ANY ORIGINAL PHOTOS of WARTIME CAMO PATTERN on a D-15.
Also MARKINGS - military police or royal air force would be my favourite.
Cheers, Erwin

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Erwin

Also MARKINGS - military police or royal air force would be my favourite.

Erwin,

We will keep looking! See http://www.imagecontrol.com.au/oldcmp/craddock_1.html for a couple of pictures of a D15 in RAF service. Looks plain Light Stone, so no need for you to camouflage the Dodge.

Hanno

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Perhaps except for the odd mistake, you will not find trucks with roundels painted on the bonnet. Go for one on the roof as intended.

Well, here is one of those exceptions to the rule! Would the D15 in the background be a naughty truck as well?

[Les Freathy]

Thanks for that Mick, think i need to get my bloody glasses cleaned

[Frederic]

Hello,
Very nice restored Dodge

Here you can see old topic about Dodge D 15

http://www.mapleleafup.org/forums/showthread.php?t=1249


Best regards

Frédéric

Here my Dodge D15 scale 1/35 !

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Well, here is one of those exceptions to the rule! Would the D15 in the background be a naughty truck as well?

Always an exception to the rule!

After following Hannos recommendation and buying Mike Starmers very good Italy-camo book I find the new basic color as of 1943: Light mud.
However my vehicle was definitely overall light stone when it came to Austria in 1945.
This I found out during restoration.

Mikes book contains a G.O. stipulating new disruptive colors, such as blueblack.
And also stating that color changes shall only be applied if color available.

Thus it might very well be if no light mud was avbl, the disruptive blotches were painted over the (old) light stone too. Right or wrong?

Again: I appreciate any pictures of D15s in camo paint on this thread. Thank you.
Cheers, E