We had a skull with a black beret on ours. The stenciling of the names was way too clean. Ours were always a bit off and done quickly. Dripping paint and so on. The tape is likely what you said. Some type of number of the vehicle, serial number, or both. How you find your equipment quickly out of the arms room.

Many thx mate! Im really happy that I have some guys from the military as my subscribers and viewers because your comments are very valuable and are inspiration and knowledge when finishing our models. I wil build new Bradley so If you have some inspirational ideas to finish it please let me know! :)

I would make it the same but they are quite small and the only way I can make them are decals.This is a certain limitation but I think that next time I will do it more realistic, as you wrote :)

Always happy to help! I love your body of work and honestly have no advice I could share, I don't think you're doing anything that would need improving or that looks out of place. There were so many perspectives over the last 20+ years that again, I find it hard to imagine you doing something that could be objectively "unrealistic". While I agree that we're never as clean as the factory when it comes to hand applied stencil work, I know there is only so much you can do with decals. If I can at least provide some inspiration or context, I would say that the areas around crew hatches can get very stained. Something you're already doing based on your skills and your study of references, but if I could share some background- we live in those turrets for hours if not days, eat and drink there, maintain the weapons there, it can get pretty messy, especially with rough road conditions. And that CARC paint is a dead flat paint, so just like you'd expect with modeling, the real paint is very prone to staining. Especially things like gun oil or sugary energy drinks, and MRE food, BBQ sauces... Splatter effects, drips, dried puddles of who knows what. And even in the Middle East, there is enough moisture in the air to cause small paint chips to oxidize and rust, but the heavy contact areas like lips of turrets or hatchet and gun shields were certainly a bright polished metal. Know too that the US ships the vehicles overseas once and then as units constantly rotate through over the years, they inherit these vehicles and eventually pass them on to their replacement units. Markings can be sprayed over and over again dozens of times depending on the age of the vehicle. Especially things like crew names or non-standard unit markings. There was only a transient sense of ownership at best. I deployed to Afghanistan in 2012 and 2014 and by then, my unit was collectively very complacent. As decades of upgrades had occurred on these vehicles, old remnants of original hardware, antenna bases, wiring, it all remained. It was easier to just add more wires when new radio mounts were bolted on as opposed to trying to rip out all the older components. So interiors and even some exterior areas could quickly become a rats nest. New GPS units and satellite antennas would never match the base paint for example. And we never washed more than the underside of the vehicles while we were there, our sense of ownership was minimal as we constantly had older vehicles go in for maintenance that were easier to replace than fix. We took care of our weapon systems but let the MRAPs get beat up. I imagine Bradley crews were better with their vehicles than we were with our trucks though, again, just because we were light Infantry and spent as much time on foot or in helicopters as we did driving the main roads in the MRAPs. And early war discipline was likely much higher than when it devolved over decades to more of a wild west of combat fatigued standards that had clearly slipped over time. So more recent vehicles and equipment can realistically look much worse than say something from the early 2000s. Take care my friend!

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Many thx! Be careful- binge-watching of my vids may cause some brain damage :) :):)

@@coldemonspl then with your amazing content, it's worth getting brain damage 😅

Many thx. You know, it is quite popular tnat the shackels are in different color. I noted it on different vehicles in different countries. And on the model is one more point to build contrast and eyecatching. You are the example that I reach the point! :)

Dzięki! :)

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Thx a lot mate! :)

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Moje Hobby.

Mate, VBCI was presented on my Patreon but also in my book. Just join to this special group to find 3 videos and HD pics of this vehicle. You can also look for AK130017 book with this Stryker, VBCI and 6 other 8x8 vehicles :):):)

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@@coldemonspl sorry If I can't join your patreon for now, I'm having some financial crisis...

@@dogforeyals no problem mate. Just remember for the future, if there will be some possibility to see you in my band of brothers! :)

Daniel I dont know their names. Need to check my books. Please write to my - coldemonspl@gmail.com because Im sure I will forgot :)

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W sumie tak, produkt z Miryoku.cz

You may find that Accurate Armour may still make them, I know they had them in their stock line a few years ago, best regards from Australia, Les

www.miryoku.cz/cs/

thx :)

Yep. After Stryker Im will published WW2 subject :)

No politics in every sense please! It's just a model :)