Figure 3-2. Camouflage pattern painting color chart for geographic and climatic changes.

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NOTES:

1VERDANT

MEANS GENERALLY GREEN-IN SUMMER DUE TO TREES, SHRUBS, AND GRASS: IN

WINTER DUE TO EVERGREENS.

2THIS

COLOR COMBINATION IS FOR USE ONLY IN AREAS THAT OCCASIONALLY HAVE SNOW

WHICH DOES NOT COMPLETELY COVER THE TERRAIN, THUS LEAVING TREES OR PATCHES OF

SOIL BARE.

3THIS

5% COLOR SHOULD BE THE CAMOUFLAGE COLOR THAT MATCHES MOST CLOSELY THE

COLOR OF THE SOIL IN THE LOCAL AREA. A TYPICAL COLOR FOR SUCH USE IS SAND, BUT

EARTH RED, EARTH YELLOW, OR ONE OF THE OTHERS MAY BE CLOSER TO THE

PREDOMINANT SOIL COLOR AND IN THAT CASE, SHOULD BE USED.

Figure 3-2. Camouflage pattern painting color chart for geographic and climatic changes.

NOTE

Since the areas and climates in which

Individual colors should not be mixed

newly manufactured vehicles will

with one another.

operate cannot be predicted, it is not

Pattern Designs. a. The patterns, when

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practical to pattern paint new

painted on the vehicles, are a guide for a design

vehicles at the factory.

developed for the specific item of equipment. The

design is an outline drawing of the item on which wavy

d. The color patterns in figure 3-2 were designed for

lines give the boundaries of the color areas. Within each

world-wide application, and cover a wide range of terrain

such area is a number that stands for the color to be

conditions.

It is possible that any given color

used in that area, except that areas which are to be

combination may not be an exact match for some

black are shown as solid black. As can be seen in figure

specific local condition. In such a case, the 12 colors

3-2, the color represented by the number varies

available in camouflage paints give the local commander

according to the seasonal or terrain color combination

wide latitude to modify the color combination and

being

used.

develop one that more closely matches the local terrain

and operating conditions.

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