LAZY MANS PAINT JOB

joel gopan · Post by **joel gopan** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 12:35 am

For those of you who want to have an excuse to be sloppy, it is documented that in the winter 44/45, that the Army camouflaged tanks and wheeled vehicles to blend in with snow by slopping on white paint in sub-zero temps, and it was probably brushed as I doubt that spray guns would atomize cold thick paint.
Joel

armydriver · Post by **armydriver** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 4:11 pm

That is the Army way of doing things. What ever works at the time.

joel gopan · Post by **joel gopan** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:01 am

They had no choice, the Army was on the move, and it is not in the norm to stop and build Motorpools complete with warm buildings when there are thousands of vehicles plastered all over the cold winter countryside. These GIs were tough, and were not getting up in barracks to SOS and moseying in step over to the motorpool to do the days work.
Joel

armydriver · Post by **armydriver** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:36 pm

Thats the reason I got into aviation. Warm clean sheets, hot chow and no long foot patrols like when I was an Infantry officer. Paint jobs, you should have seen the birds we were flying. Made no difference to us, just as along as they took off, made the mission, and came back. Some didn't and for those I still mourn.