Long Shot - Irish Rolls Royce Armored car question

Stef_6

Hello all,

First a few word of introduction. I'm a french guy, doing models as a hobby, either planes (mostly), boats sometimes, and soft skin vehicles.

I recently bought a model of the Rolls Royce 1920 Mk. I Pattern and browsing the web for info about the car, I found that topic on an armor dedicated forum :

http://www.network54.com/Forum/282066/thread/1238462938/Irish+RR+1920+painting+scheme

Hope it will show.

It displays a pic of an Irish army RR Armored car, during field training circa 1941. So my question is the same as the topic title: what could be the camo colours of that RR?
The guy in the following answers states light grey and greeen-grey; Well, nice but a bit vague ....:D

So any inputs, hints, links or even parcellar info will be most welcome, as I intend to build the model with that scheme. And even if "Google is your friend", it didn't produce any sound results on that one.

Thanks in advance for any help,

BR,

Stephane

johnny_doyle

that's a nice pic of the Irish soldier in the Vickers M1927 helmet. British tat.

couple of B&W photos in the National Library of Ireland which might be of interest

http://kildarest.nli.ie/npa/hogan/hog113.htm

http://kildarest.nli.ie/npa/hogan/hog134.htm

http://kildarest.nli.ie/npa/hogan/hog24.htm


Sliabh na Mban today :
http://www.esatclear.ie/~curragh/sliabh_na_mban.htm


there are some old films of Free State soldiers at British Pathe site. The 1933 exercise has some armoured cars visible in the free stills (too expensive to get the full film) :


http://www.britishpathe.com/thumbnails.php?id=5597&searchword=Irish

Stef_6

Hello Johnny,

Thanks a bunch for these links, I will browse them thoroughly !

Plus that's a period I don't really know much, so that'll be pure vanilla for me ...

Cheers for now,

Regards

Stef

FiSe

Google is your friend, especially when there's a LIFE archive on it. I know that these are totally different vehicles on the shots, but it should give you an idea about how the camouflage was applied in 1941 and that prhaps there was a 3rd colour thrown in on some of the vehicles /?/. Remember this is Ireland and if the Army is the same like local Air Corps, then every piece was original:


http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=irish+army+source:life&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dirish%2Barmy%2Bsource:life%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff&imgurl=14242c659f85fda0

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=irish+army+source:life&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dirish%2Barmy%2Bsource:life%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff&imgurl=4af006584c8dcdff

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=irish+army+source:life&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dirish%2Barmy%2Bsource:life%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff&imgurl=2d881d8e9d231562

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=irish+army+source:life&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dirish%2Barmy%2Bsource:life%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff&imgurl=c1ad0ee53dcc68f3

Good luck with the build and keep us posted either here or on Ipms Ireland forum: http://www.ipmsireland.com/forum/

Stef_6

Hello Fise,

Well thank by the truck load, these are indeed some real nice images.

I didn't think of using the Life approach and that was a smart move.

And i will certainly post my building with great leasure on the IPMS Ireland.

Cheers,

Stef (#6)

Pocono Joe

Does this help you (looks like Jay Leno of "The Tonight Show" owns one)? If nothing else, maybe just to get the green and grey tones.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/96902679@N00/269468694/
http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/images/your_garage/cars/thumbnails/7861_107468634548123b349671f.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7700258@N05/937537968/