WW2 Imperial Japanese Army AFV paint set

Japanese army vehicles in two periods

The camouflage of the Imperial Japanese Army changed markedly during the war and the contents of the package follow that change. The early period of the years 1937 to 1942 stood on a khaki base, over which irregular areas of tea brown and olive green were applied; the boundaries between them were emphasized by narrow yellow stripes, a detail you will not find with other armies.

The late period of the years 1943 to 1945 started from a quite different base. It was replaced by the color of parched grass, over which grass green and earth brown appeared. The last one runs through both periods and is a practical linking shade if you are building several vehicles for one display case.

• The khaki base of the early period
• The tea brown and olive green of the early camouflage areas
• A signal yellow for the dividing stripes between the fields
• The color of parched grass as the late base
• The grass green of the late scheme
• An earth brown usable in both periods
• An olive gray close to the late Japanese tone

The Japanese shades moreover have their original names and the data give them with every paint. For a modeler that is practical, because period sources and Japanese publications work with these names and not with numbers.

The paints belong to an acrylic range tuned for applying with a brush. With vehicles that makes sense: a large part of the work is filling in small details, and the consistency of this range is built so that no bristle marks stay on a flat part.