looking for colour images of vehicles used in the desert after 1942

[McDell Bros]

Light mud with blue/black camo was used by all New Zealand armour and a lot of transport for the first few months of the Italian campaign. Infact our Staghounds remained that colour untill the end. Although a lot of the Kiwi veterans refer to it as Mud/Grey, I,m sure its still the same colour. Apparently some of the vehicles were painted on the ship on the way to Italy using & mixing the closest colours they had on hand. We have painted our carrier in these colours as serving in the 21st Infantry Battalion. The colours we used were a bit of an educated guess, but they probably varied a bit in service anyway. Here are a few photo's, the colour seems to vary a bit in different lights & is slowly dulling off & looking better.

[Mark Mackenzie]

From what I have been able to dig up, a request was made by 15th Army Group at the beginning of November 1943 for the replacement of the Light Mud/Black scheme as soon as possible. A colour similar to Olive Drab was requested. Orders were issued by HQ 8th Army in January 1944, stating that Olive Drab would not become available until early spring and that until then a uniform dark green or dark brown was to be used where available. This applied to Commonwealth AFV as well (both these documents are attached).

New Zealand Divisional Cavalry Staghounds were repainted in April 1944, and I'm pretty sure from photos that the colours weren't Light Mud/Black (page 338):

http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2DiCa-c21.html

New Zealand tanks (18th Battalion) were repainted "Dark Green and Brown" in April 1944 (page 442) :

http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2-18Ba-c30.html

[RichardT10829]

i was going to do mine desert colours i think.... would iget away with light stone base (sand) with SCC2 dispruptive (no vertical lines) as per my build thread (pictures of a model)

my grandad was in iraq and persia 42 - 43 also went to Karrachi and india too.