Landships II

Tankcommander · Colonel

British vehicle in bric camouflage

Arie Dijkhuis · General

Hi Tankcommander,

It's not a staff car, it's a Pierce Arrow armoured car with a 2 pounder AA gun.

The camouflage is very good. You can hardly make out the vehicle...

With kind regards,

-Arie.

James H · Legend

What vehicle?

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(I wanted to be the first to do that)

kieffer · Commander in Chief

the camouflage is good indeed, but silly. Unless the car is used as a stationary bunker. This kind of camouflage is the mimicry concept, the opposite of the 'form breaking'.

Well, here the car is painted as a house. WW2 pill boxes in housed areas or streets where sometimes painted as parked cars, useless once they were spotted and providing an even better target.

Arie Dijkhuis · General

Hi Kieffer,

In Holland bunkers were painted in an disruptive camouflage. Gun ports were painted in�a very light colour, so they would even out the shade that fell into them, making them virtually invisible from a distance. Fake gun ports were painted on blind walls. Pictorial evidence shows that the fake gun ports were sprayed in machine gun and shell fire, with the real gun ports showing no damage at all...

With kind regards,

-Arie.

Rob · Legend

Wow, what a fantastic image! Very interesting vehicle too, I only know of a few images of Pierce Arrows and it's certainly new on me

Roger Todd · Legend

Reminds me of that Chinese artist who paints himself to blend in with his background. Can't remember his name but they took the mick on Mock The Week a while ago.

Rectalgia · Legend

Roger Todd wrote:
Reminds me of that Chinese artist who paints himself to blend in with his background. Can't remember his name but they took the mick on Mock The Week a while ago.

"Seni Halimunan" (Invisible Art) has apparently developed into quite a genre with contemporary Malaysians (there's one of them presently operating in London, it is said, but nobody can find him confuse ).� An example from KL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg9EPrsBJfQ

Roger Todd · Legend

Rectalgia wrote:
"Seni Halimunan" (Invisible Art) has apparently developed into quite a genre with contemporary Malaysians (there's one of them presently operating in London, it is said, but nobody can find him ).

Love it! biggrin

I'll check out that youtube link, cheers!

kieffer · Commander in Chief

Invisible art hey? What about that museum exhibition floor with nothing on the walls? Up to the viewer to visualise his/hers own piece of art. I think the concept is from the sixties and recently re-issued again in Switzerland I think. Another conceptual item, paintings with the image to the wall, i.e the back of the canvas showed to the public. No joking and all taken very seriously in art land.

Sorry for digressing, Kieffer

Paul Bonnett · Hero

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=OSlCXoK6O-c�� This is the chap that made our national news some time ago, amazing !

Paul

Rectalgia · Legend

Outstanding. I recall similar being used in a TV advertisement years ago - a woman, not wanting to be found, "disappearing" into a couch. From the "related links" of the above Liu Bolin clip, a high-tech version, a veritable "chameleon suit"� incorporating movement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD83dqSfC0Y and the inspiration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WHUTL4fujo. Great idea with the technological version, making a vehicle interior "invisible" for better driver visibility - the inverse of military camouflage. Talk about "swords into ploughshares"!

-- Edited by Rectalgia on Monday 14th of November 2011 06:00:26 AM