RE: OT\DS2- Is this the world's most hideous AFV camouflage (Ind ian BMP-2)

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> From: Fabet@aol.com [SMTP:Fabet@aol.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 10:31 PM
> To:	gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject:	Re: OT\DS2-  Is this the world's most hideous AFV
camouflage
> (Indian BMP-2)
> 
> In a message dated 7/5/00 9:18:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> Robin.Paul@tesco.net writes:
> 
> << Is this the world's most hideous AFV camouflage - an Indian Army
BMP-2
> on
>  Republic Day.
>  Very, very horrible.
>  http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/LAND-FORCES/Army/Images/0293.jpg
>  
>  Rob Paul >>
> 
> It's close, but I'd have to rate it number 2. In the early/mid 70's
the
> U.S. 
> Army started experimenting with IR defeating paint. Go to your nearest
> game 
> shop and buy a bottle of the florescent yellow and florescent green,
paint
> in 
> a woodland pattern and you've got a pretty good approximation. I'm not

> jokeing. I saw this in the field at Fort Riley, Kansas. I only wish I
had
> a 
> photo to back me up.
> 
> Faron
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I was going to guess urban grafiti camo. But the lines are too straight.
Museum of Modern Art camo?
Sesame Street camo? Lots of T, V, I & L's
Maybe its the "I'm too stupid looking to be dangerous" camo?
The more that I look at it, the worse it looks. There is a huge yellow +
as
seen
from above right in the center of the tank.
Looking closer at the site, it does not appear to be camo. It is parade
colors
Green/Yellow/Brown to be close to thier penant colors Red/Yellow/Green.
They have other images with camo
(http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/LAND-FORCES/Army/Images-Vehicles.html)

I once did 2 tanks in concentric 1/2 circles. When the two tanks were 
side by side it made a bulls' eye with the center between the tanks.
No one thought is was funny, though, so I repainted.   (((   )))

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Brian Bell
bkb@beol.net   
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