Air Force M-715
Post by rpgdeity on Jul 9, 2006, 3:03pm
Was the M-715 ever used by the air force? Did they have their own color scheme? I am assuming they did, but I don't think I've ever seen a pic of a 715 for the Air Force.
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Air Force M-715
Post by rpgdeity on Jul 9, 2006, 3:03pm
Was the M-715 ever used by the air force? Did they have their own color scheme? I am assuming they did, but I don't think I've ever seen a pic of a 715 for the Air Force.
Re: Air Force M-715
Post by tacomainoh on Jul 9, 2006, 3:27pm
I believe so... think someone had one on the other board.... pics may exist! If memory serves, they were dark blue w/white lettering??? Didnt' use many of them if they actually did have any.
Re: Air Force M-715
Post by k8icu on Jul 9, 2006, 5:33pm
Depends on the unit using the truck. If it was used on base then it would be Strata Blue. If it was used by say engineers like a REDHORSE unit then it would have been standard 24087 (ish). I say ish cause the pictures I've seen of Airfarce vehicles that were used "in the field" is a different shade than standard 24087 used in Army paint.
Re: Air Force M-715
Post by warwick on Jul 9, 2006, 6:20pm
a x-member of the zone sent me a picture of his m715 door during his restoration. the colors i believe are way off, somewhere between his camera, his computer, the internet and my computer i believe the colors got inverted, judge by the blue shadow and blue concrete[upper right corner] anyway as far as airforce use its pretty good proof. colors of the AF M715 i would have to agree with k8icu
http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/6...ngsaaaa7bv.jpg
Re: Air Force M-715
Post by tacomainoh on Jul 9, 2006, 6:29pm
I'd say those colors are about right, actually... shadows are usually a cool blue, and his camera probably overcompensated for all that warm yellowy-green.
That's a cool historical shot!
Re: Air Force M-715
Post by rpgdeity on Jul 9, 2006, 7:17pm
Cool info so far. I did find this site of an Air Force M-37 restoration.
http://www.garbee.net/~cabell/photos35.htm
Re: Air Force M-715
Post by rpgdeity on Jul 12, 2006, 3:08pm
So I remember a sticky on the old zone that had a list of the different places you could go to get military paint, but I can't seem to find them on our temp. zone here, but what are the places again for mil. paint? I'm looking for the full-gloss USAF blue also known as STRATA BLUE, 15045 (Federal Standard 595B).
Re: Air Force M-715
Post by barrman on Jul 12, 2006, 3:15pm
http://www.rapcoparts.com/
http://www.mullinsjeepparts.com/
These are two places I know of. There is another thread going on right now about Gilespie paint that mentions a few other places.
Re: Air Force M-715
Post by teking on Jul 12, 2006, 7:56pm
not sure about Vietnam era but modern day AF vehicles use blue for state side and Western Europe and a lot are also now dessert tan. We even had camo in the Pacific.
Much like or uniforms which used to all be blue for our Dress Blues and pickle gren for our utility uniforms. Now we still have the dress blues but we mostly wear woodland camo or dessert camo now.
Re: Air Force M-715
Post by jeepistdougiowa on Jul 12, 2006, 9:32pm
I had one with the markings in the pic warwick posted, it was OD...not sure of the shade. Sold that truck to Danarchy and then he sold it to someone unknown to me.
Re: Air Force M-715
Post by rpgdeity on Jul 13, 2006, 9:29am
So what type of markings are on the AF vehicles? The pic above shows the door, but did they ever put stars on the doors and rest of the vehicle like the Army or Marines? Everybody paints their 715 either Army or Marine green, maybe Navy grey, but I've never seen an AF blue 715. So I think I'm going to paint mine Strata Blue, and I'd like to put the near stock decals and markings like the AF vehicles. Plus I like the dark blue alot, lol.
Re: Air Force M-715
Post by elwenil on Jul 13, 2006, 9:46am
Since you have the Fed number of the paint color, most larger paint suppliers have the formulas for the Govt. colors. I know when I mixed paint at a local Federated Parts store we had all the Govt. codes on microfiche and I mixed several versions of OD for different people. It was Sherwin-Williams automotive paint, looked good but it was up to the painter to get the right sheen and most came out a bit too glossy.
Re: Air Force M-715
Post by brute4c on Jul 13, 2006, 9:47am
When I was in the USAF, I never saw any stars or other markings besides the ones above and occasionally bumper markings on bigger than pickup size stuff....ecept for special purpose vehicles...like I worked in Crash Recovery and so our truck had CRASH 1 all over it....
Re: Air Force M-715
Post by moosejr on Sept 3, 2006, 11:03am
That pic makes me wonder if there isn't a parts transplant, Standard AF marking scheme would have that truck manufactured in 1973 (hence the 73 in the number) AF vehicles stateside normally only had the markings like this on the doors and on a license plate. Special purpose vehicles also were marked for tire pressure and various other things. The AF used some standard commercial Jeep trucks in the 70's, so this looks kind of like transplanted parts to me. . .
Re: Air Force M-715
Post by beast on Sept 5, 2006, 9:08am
Or 73 could be the year it was first transfered to the USAF from the Army. I have a friend who was an aircraft maintenance tech in the late 70's and he drove a M726 maintenance truck and he said it was painted OD green.