[ATTACH=full]83277[/ATTACH]Chieftain by Brett Watt, on Flickr

BATUS painted their armoured vehicles in a desert yellow color, with green semi-hard-edged camouflage to break up the silhouette and profile.  I started this paint job by applying a coat of Tamiya Yellow Green XF-4, over Stynylrez Black primer (yes, mine is not toothpaste consistency yet).  My hope was that I would have a green-tinted darker yellow to provide shadow tones for the desert yellow main color.  As you can see, it's rather bright and not very shadow-like.  Oh well.

[ATTACH=full]83278[/ATTACH]Chieftain by Brett Watt, on Flickr

I sprayed on Tamiya Desert Yellow XF-60 as the main color.  I painted it on in a zenith pattern at about a 45 degree angle while slowly spinning the assemblies.  I think it turned out just fine: sand-colorer, with a slightly green tint to it.  That tint is more pronounced in the areas in shade. 

[ATTACH=full]83279[/ATTACH]Chieftain by Brett Watt, on Flickr

I used Tamiya NATO Green XF-67 for the camouflage pattern.  I used my H&S Infinity with a 0.15 needle to spray this on.  I thinned the paint to an almost ink-like consistency, and did several passes from many different angles to catch all of the angles of each painted relief piece on the hull and turret.  The 0.15 allowed me to get pretty close and do a semi-hard edge for the camo.  Some camo ref pics had a hard edge, some were soft-edge, and some were in between.  However, it appears to be touched up frequently in the field.  That allowed me some artistic license with the camo.  When finished, I did a light pass of the camo color mixed with the main color in the centre of the camo stripes, just to add some tonal variation.