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So many color variations… Bronze Green/Olive Green, all Grey, Grey fins with green body, etc…

Is it a certain standard colors between Europe and US? I know it varies and or universal with US Navy and US Air Force.

Found this on Brit Modeler

USAF bomb bodies are painted in FS 34088, so using Olive Drab is kind of right... I say kind of because the term Olive Drab can include different colours... in any case there's plenty of modelling paints that claim to match FS 34088.

Deep Bronze Green is a British colour from the BS381c standard that is used on British bombs.

Modern day Luftwaffe were grey with green body. Curious what other European nation were. NATO probably different color variant.

Hellenic modified GBU-20s were probably painted grey or sand color of sorts to match their Hellenic schemes, I believe.

Most US Navy bombs are grey and have the protective coating them.

BlackSheep214 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:09 pm So many color variations… Bronze Green/Olive Green, all Grey, Grey fins with green body, etc…

Is it a certain standard colors between Europe and US? I know it varies and or universal with US Navy and US Air Force.

US made bombs are Olive Drab 34087/34088. The USN adds an ablative coating to delay fire cook off that originally was OD, but in the 90s switched to Ghost Gray. The USN bombs will have a very rough texture, and two yellow stripes on the nose fuse area, compared to the USAF single stripe. Inert bombs are blue in color. Bombs and fin assemblies are stored separately, so the fins are usually in newer looking OD compared to the bomb body, which are frequently stored in outdoors bomb dumps exposed to the elements.