Why they called them "Negrillos"? With all these colours...
From "El Color de la Guerra" Canal de Historia,cortesía de CArlos Martín un colegazo...
Can somebody tell me...
Can somebody tell me...
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It was only a Joke 
I know they came in the original Anthrazitgrau colour .It is said that a darker shade of grey that the later one (Poland...) and without that blueish tinct that can be seen in contemporary colour pics (Or at least I see althougt I have read elsewhere that it was a greenish tinct
) So they called them "Negrillos" (The Russian I16 came into big boxes with the word "Mohkba" for Moscu stencilled and they called it MOSCA or "fly" 
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What I feel is uncommon is : First :A colour pic of a Spanish Foreign Legion SCW tank
Second: A three tone cammo not often seen in Nationalist vehicles along SCW (They were more common in Republican side)You can see Dark Grey+Broad bands of a Pea Gree+ Sand colour stripes...
Nice cammo very much like the German ones in WW2
I know they came in the original Anthrazitgrau colour .It is said that a darker shade of grey that the later one (Poland...) and without that blueish tinct that can be seen in contemporary colour pics (Or at least I see althougt I have read elsewhere that it was a greenish tinct
) So they called them "Negrillos" (The Russian I16 came into big boxes with the word "Mohkba" for Moscu stencilled and they called it MOSCA or "fly" )What I feel is uncommon is : First :A colour pic of a Spanish Foreign Legion SCW tank
Second: A three tone cammo not often seen in Nationalist vehicles along SCW (They were more common in Republican side)You can see Dark Grey+Broad bands of a Pea Gree+ Sand colour stripes...
Nice cammo very much like the German ones in WW2
Another view from the same vehicle...Look at the air recognition sign (The cross of St Andrew) on the roof.Surely by this time the Fuerza Aerea Republicana "La Gloriosa" was not a problem 
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My understanding is that the cross of St Andrew (based on the cross on which the saint was crucified) came into Spanish heraldry as the Burgundy Cross. (originally two roughly-pruned branches)
from:
http://flagspot.net/flags/es1506.html#bur
thnx - josin
from:
http://flagspot.net/flags/es1506.html#bur
I would like to know which name is most-often used in current-day Spain, and if the Burgundian connection is common knowledge there.The saltire was originally a Burgundian emblem, first introduced in Spain as the personal badge of Phillip the Handsome, Duke of Burgundy and King Consort of Castile and Aragon, married to Joan of Castile and Aragon (daughter of the Catholic Kings Ferdinand and Elizabeth), the parents of Charles I (Charles V as German Emperor). As such, the emblem has been called in Spain "cross (or, more properly, saltire) of Burgundy", even if the term "cross/saltire of St. Andrew" has also been used.
thnx - josin
http://www.ejercitodelaire.mde.es/(G)Pu ... enframeset
I was not aware of this...
Anyway the cross of burgundy has been used sice last century by Carlist Groups after the red-yellow-red flag became the national symbol .So the Red Burgundy Cross is rarely seen nowadays.
I was not aware of this...
Anyway the cross of burgundy has been used sice last century by Carlist Groups after the red-yellow-red flag became the national symbol .So the Red Burgundy Cross is rarely seen nowadays.