Yom Kippur war camo colours?

[Slugbalancer]

Any paint recommendations for Israeli & Egyptians vehicle camouflage colours during the 1973 Yom Kippur war?

[grizzlymc]

If recollection serves me correct, the Israelis had something resembling the US Chocoate chip uniform with about 25% green.

The Egyptians and Syrians may have used sov sand with about 33% brown in wavy lines.

Google it, it was fought in colour.

[RMD]

The Egyptians used a sand base with dark red-brown camouflage stripes (sometimes amoebic splodges). There was often a very dark (almost black) green shade added. This was usually the minority colour in the scheme, though some units used green and brown in the same proportions (not unlike WW2 Germans, though with darker green) and very occasionally the camo was all painted using the very dark green colour.

The Syrians usually used a more yellow shade of sand, with dark green camouflage stripes (nowhere near as dark a shade of green as that used by the Egyptians). Sometimes the green stripes had a grey stripe painted immediately alongside and touching the green and sometimes 'braided' over or under the green. Some Syrian units used a more complex 'mosaic' camouflage pattern using the same colours.

The Jordanians used much the same scheme as the first one described for the Syrians - a yellow shade of sand with green stripes, but the green seems to have been a lighter olive green shade.

There were stacks of camouflage variations for the Arab armies, so it's definitely worth getting some books or having a good Google.

The Israelis used a uniform greyish shade of sand (rather like the colour of Khaki Drill uniforms), though not as green-grey-sand as it became in the 1980s. Some M60 tanks went into action still in their original US green colour.

[tim.w]

I use cote d'arms faded olive for Israeli's of this period and it always looks right to me. Will send some photos when I can get to my Israeli's without waking the baby.