Cold war re-enactor kit

[Scott Bentley]

There is a pub on Camouflage and Concealment. It is very old and contains all of the hand drawn pictures of how to paint the three color cam pattern to the vehicles of the era. I have a scanned copy of it somewhere.

As far as the poles go, there were/are no standardized "sockets" for them to fit in on vehicles. Having had the pleasure of being a sapper who lived in an M113 Pioneer Dozer (read: thousands of little things for the net to get hooked on), we usually spread a canvas tarp out over the vehicle first and then unrolled the cam net. For the poles, we affixed short sections of PVC pipe to the four corners of the vehicle. Granted this was for a much larger and more complex vehicle.

For the quarter tons we usually just had the nets rolled as flat as possible on the hood and secured with bungy cords. Occasionally they'd get pitched on the rear roof and lashed down, but that usually caused the roof to sag and fill with water. As for the poles, we just wedged them wherever we could, all improvised. For the windows, mirrors, lights and other shiny's, we had sandbags or sheets of hessian. I never (not even once) saw any of those Iltis mirror and windshield rubberized covers while in service, and that was in Petawawa where arguably they should have been.