Landships II

vollketten · Lieutenant-Colonel

Razzle Dazzle Colours

MK1 Nut · Hero

Hi,

No information on the Tank in question, but i knew I had seen that Camouflage somewhere. This is a pair of WW1 Snipers gloves in the Imperial War Museums Collection.

vollketten · Lieutenant-Colonel

Yeah the gloves are next to that cloth in thebook too, was trying to get an idea of the colour pallet so they are really helpful. The book also has lots of other good ww1 related camo stuff in very good quality. The netting on the top made me curious too as it was different to the usual chicken coop ones I've seen before. Paint wise is it a fair assumption that all sides of the machine were painted like that for the experiment?

Michael Taylor · Lieutenant-Colonel

Connected with the Tudor-Hart scheme is a model in the collection at Bovington, said to be"nearly 2m long". This depicts a female tank with the earlier type of sponson. This is "decorated" in a manner similar to the Mk IV in the photograph, both on the outside and inside of the track frames, excluding the hull and sponsons. The pattern is applied vertically and horizontally, and the effect resembles a Bargello design upholstery. But then Tudor-hart did design textiles. hmm

Valeriy67 · Captain

Australian Austin 4th series - «Razzle Dazzle» (USA) or «Dazzle Painting» (GB)

http://www.3squadron.org.au/subpages/edwards.htm

WWI Armoured Cars.jpg

d_fernetti · Hero

Note that in the first photograph the artwork doesn't seems to be "painted on" bu rather "draped on" as if the tank was covered in some sort of blankets. Perhaps the photo is too badly reproduced, but I can't see any surface detail on the vertical surfaces of the track frames, like rivet lines or panel boundaries (perhaps because the camouflage is successful?) so I guess that the experiment consisted on draping any regular tank with colored blankets instead of having someone painting the zigzags for ages.
A clue for the "blankets" is that the tracks are covered in two areas and the zigzags stop a bit short from the lower roller end supports on the ground.

-- Edited by d_fernetti on Friday 3rd of April 2015 01:35:16 AM

James H · Legend

One thing leads to another, and the Camouflage Women led to this:

dazzle pattern tank camouflage

The idea of Ernest Tudor-Hart. We have discussed it in the past, but more details at https://tank100.com/tanks/tank-camouflage-first-world-war/

Tim R · Hero

Maybe late, but I just ran across this and thought I would share, its a little bit better than the first picture posted by Vollketten.

All the Best

Tim R

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geofftrash · Corporal

This is the model referred to;