SteelCore
03-23-2007, 08:24 AM
German World War I steel helmet painted in disrupted pattern
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42716000/jpg/_42716457_helmet_iwm_416.jpg
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6476647.stm
A major London exhibition on the history of military camouflage looks at how it took to the field and ended up on the catwalk.
Dress the French army as harlequins, Picasso reportedly quipped during World War I, and the diamond [shape]s will make them harder for the enemy to see.
The harlequin Dazzle pattern on the HM Mauretania is one of the most striking at the exhibition.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42716000/jpg/_42716459_mauretania_iwm_416.jpg
France, perhaps wisely, declined to kit out its soldiers as Italian clowns but was otherwise happy to apply Cubism to the war effort, on the principle that a broken-up form is harder for a spotter-plane to sight.
The Section de Camouflage, staffed with minor Cubist painters and set designers, was born in 1915 and no major piece of military hardware would ever be safe again from the paint-brush.
Now London's Imperial War Museum is paying tribute to the camofleurs and their successors around the world with what it boasts to be the largest-ever such exhibition.
Papier-mache dummy heads were used by the French and British to trick snipers in the trenches.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42716000/jpg/_42716505_dummies_iwm_416.jpg
On display are relics of the Section, and everything from 150 original model boats showing the famous Dazzle technique developed for British ships to the latest camouflage patterns of the US Army.
World War I camofleurs concentrated on hardware like artillery and ships, with the British soon catching up on the French after initial reservations about the military benefits of Cubism, despised by some as "Boche art".
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This is an awesome site that catalogs all sorts of camo patterns the world rounmd, with details on terrain in which it is used, when it was used, and patterns that influenced a pattern.
http://www.kamouflage.net/
As of 27 November 2006, 233 iden*tif*ied cam*ouf*lage uni*forms, used by 76 count*ries, were regist*er*ed in the kamouflage.net data*base.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42716000/jpg/_42716457_helmet_iwm_416.jpg
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6476647.stm
A major London exhibition on the history of military camouflage looks at how it took to the field and ended up on the catwalk.
Dress the French army as harlequins, Picasso reportedly quipped during World War I, and the diamond [shape]s will make them harder for the enemy to see.
The harlequin Dazzle pattern on the HM Mauretania is one of the most striking at the exhibition.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42716000/jpg/_42716459_mauretania_iwm_416.jpg
France, perhaps wisely, declined to kit out its soldiers as Italian clowns but was otherwise happy to apply Cubism to the war effort, on the principle that a broken-up form is harder for a spotter-plane to sight.
The Section de Camouflage, staffed with minor Cubist painters and set designers, was born in 1915 and no major piece of military hardware would ever be safe again from the paint-brush.
Now London's Imperial War Museum is paying tribute to the camofleurs and their successors around the world with what it boasts to be the largest-ever such exhibition.
Papier-mache dummy heads were used by the French and British to trick snipers in the trenches.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42716000/jpg/_42716505_dummies_iwm_416.jpg
On display are relics of the Section, and everything from 150 original model boats showing the famous Dazzle technique developed for British ships to the latest camouflage patterns of the US Army.
World War I camofleurs concentrated on hardware like artillery and ships, with the British soon catching up on the French after initial reservations about the military benefits of Cubism, despised by some as "Boche art".
---ETA---
This is an awesome site that catalogs all sorts of camo patterns the world rounmd, with details on terrain in which it is used, when it was used, and patterns that influenced a pattern.
http://www.kamouflage.net/
As of 27 November 2006, 233 iden*tif*ied cam*ouf*lage uni*forms, used by 76 count*ries, were regist*er*ed in the kamouflage.net data*base.