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Overall Color: Dark Green (Humbrol 75 Or 116) 72010 – Baltic States 1918 - 1939 Lithuania Overall color: 51 KAM 51 medium/dark brown Vickers Carden Lloyd (Humbrol 29) Overall color: dark green (Humbrol 75 or 116) ,,KERSTAS“ ,,KERSTAS“ Place shields on both sides of driver’s visor and ,,SLIBINAS“ ,,SLIBINAS“ nicknames on both sides of the hull below the turret. Renault FT 17 Armament is Maxim MG. Latvia Camo schedule: dark green, dark brown and light sand with thin black 105 105 outlines. Fiat 3000 Armament is short 37 mm gun, like Puteaux gun from the FT-17. Camo schedule: dark green, dark brown and light sand with thin black outlines. Vickers Carden Lloyd Place licence plates on the lower front and rear ends of the hull. Armament is a long barrelled 40 mm gun. LACPLESIS LACPLESIS Overall color: dark green. LACPLESIS Place names on rear hull sides below Garford-Putilov the turret and on bonnet below driver’s visor. Place the red/white squares on bonnet sides just before the doors. PDF Creator - PDF4Free v2.0 http://www.pdf4free.com Estonia Overall color: dark green 52 52 (Humbrol 75 or 116) Renault FT 17 Place numbers on both sides of the hull below the turret. Place an Estonian flag on the commander’s cupola. Camo schedule: dark green, dark brown and light sand with thick black outlines. Austin-Putilov Place names on sides of the hull, below the turrets and the smaller sized name on the front plate below the driver’s visor. 158 158 Camo schedule:Polish schedule of dark TKS tankette green, dark brown and light sand with thin black outlines. Place numbers on sides of the hull. Sweden 10 7 10 7 10 7 10 7 Strvbat Strvbat LK - II Overall color: dark grey (Humbrol 67) Place vehicle numbers on both sides of the hull and on the rear door. Nationality marking with text is to be placed on the nose with the smaller vehicle number below it. Carden Lloyd Overall color: dark grey (Humbrol 67) tankette Place nationality marking on the front of the hull between the driver’s visor and the MG. PDF Creator - PDF4Free v2.0 http://www.pdf4free.com.
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