Field Kitchen paint color?

[Scott B]

Anyone have any reference for the color the field kitchens were painted in the early war years. The Schiffer book "German Infantry Carts, etc." states that all wagons were painted 3 color camo on the outside and fieldgray on the inside and a caption under a surviving wagon sayes its fieldgray inside and out. I'm thinking the 3 color camo was pre-war and maybe early war, but probably changed quickly to all fieldgray. Any help?
TIA
Scott

[Daniel L]

Here's the only picture I could find. To be honest I've never heard of any three colour cmaouflage patterns for the gulaschkanonen.



Best regards/ Daniel

[Dubar1]

All the pix I've seen look to be dark grey, although it could be chicken grease!:

[MaisAlto]

Dark grey, probably.

[Scott B]

Thanks guys, (Bob, we must be following each other around). I appreciate all the pictures but I must say I wasn't convinced. I don't think you could really tell the difference between "panzer" grey and field grey in a b/w picture. I did find on another message board a photo of an extant kitchen I believe from Samur that looks like the original paint and its dunkelgrau. Thats convincing enough for me.

Thanks again
Scott

[Robert Hurst]

Hi Scott

Some photos of the Sd.Ah 401 Field Kitchen.

This was standard Luftwaffe equipment and was allocated to units with personnel strengths of up to 170 men. The kitchen produced hot food and drinks. Food could be boiled, fried or steamed. While on the march the field kitchen could only be used to make one-pot meals. One field-kitchen soldier was sufficient to operate the kitchen. The cooking pot had a usable capacity of 200 litres, however for cooking it was designed to take just 175 litres and could also be used as an automatic cooker. The coffee cauldron had a usable capacity of 90 litres and the frying pan about 35 litres. Driving speed of the pneumatic-tyred field kitchen was up to 110 kph. The steel-wheeled field kitchen was transported on another vehicle.

The above text and photos were taken from "German Military Trailers and Towed Equipment 1935-1945", by Horst Beiersdorf.

[Robert Hurst]

Hi

Some more field kitchen photos.

These were taken from "German Infantry Carts, Army Field Wagons, Army Sleds 1900-1945", by Wilfried Kopenhagen.

Regards

Bob

[Dubar1]

Hey Scott!!! Glad to see you here.

And for Bob Hurst, thanks for those pictures!!! They have helped me out. One of the 1/6th scale guys is making/selling a field kitchen and I wanted to see how the horses were hitched up to the limber.

[Scott B]

Thanks Robert. I have the second book mentioned but not the first. Those are very interesting. 110 kph,, wow, talk about fast food.

Scoot