Unfortunately, a basement flood ruined the Mark IV tank I was building (I left it on the floor). Good news-I decided to do a Meng Whippet tank, and after getting books on the Russian Civil War and early Soviet military and the Russian-Polish War, I decided to do a Soviet version of this tank. Questions:
1) Would 4BO Green be the right color (used before, during, and after WW2) be suitable? Presumably any circa 1920 tank would certainly have been repainted in whatever color since the Red Army captured it.
2) Do any very early Soviet soldier figures exist? I haven't found any so far.
3) Said Whippet certainly was used in 1920, but where?
My Osprey books did say that the tank I was planning to do was in dark olive. Some tanks were definitely given camouflage colors (not this one), and vehicles certainly had to be serviced, being as worn-out as they were from use, and the tanks not being as durable as more advanced ones. The Wehrmacht certainly repainted its captured tanks, but not its captured trucks and small vehicles when it invaded Russia in 1941.
