Tank paints and vehicle markings
Hungarian three tone camouflage
There are two articles on this site which deal specifically with the markings and National Insignia applied to the Honved's material, the reader is directed to those articles to see the full scope of what was applied to what, and when.
There are several schemes available to the modeller for Csaba’s, there is the standard hard edged three tone camouflage, a plain green, plain sand/ochre and the whitewashed versions of the above. The hard edge scheme applied to the Csaba appears to have been generated with the use of stencils, the locations of the individual blocks of colour are not standardised, however identical blocks/shapes of colour can be seen on different vehicles suggesting application by stencil at the whim of the painters.
The documentation applying to the Hungarian three tone camouflage colours appears not to have survived the war or is yet to be found. There was at my last perusal of the Hungarian archives no documentation concerning wartime colour/Ral codes; however a document dated 1939 has come to light describing how camouflage patterns were to be applied to military materials, however this is a temporary/experimental instruction and not an adopted official order/decree. This document (Booklet) states the colours to be used and amounts to be applied, unfortunately it only states the colours by name and not a paint code, as this is also an experimental trial it’s doubtful that it can be applied to wartime material, there are also several colours stated.
It has been suggested as most Hungarian armour ws build by the Hungarian Heavy Railway/Rolling Stock industry the colours may be derived from Rolling Stock colours of the period.
The following have been translated from 1939 pamphlet detailing the colours to be used on Hungarian materials, it was an experimental/trial booklet, however I expect the colours would be suitable or a 'good' starting point until something definitive appears.
Green, translated from Hungarian it is mentioned as Field Green ....how vague do you want? or 'Oil Green', perhaps Olive?
Grey green.
Dull Yellow, Dirty Yellow.
Reddish Brown, Chestnut Brown.
I leave it to you to choose!
It would stand to reason that the plain green examples are simply the Hungarian green colour and the sand examples the Hungarian sand colour.
Whitewash is whitewash
3 tone (Green/ chesnut brown /Dirty yellow)
Green/Dirty Yellow(sand)
Dark green
