Tropenhose M40, kurz – Shorts

Tropenhose M40, kurz – Tropical Shorts, green.

A reproduction of the German army M40 tropical shorts, made in Bangladesh. Photographed in summer sunlight, these dark olive tropical shorts look much lighter than the material actually is. However, after repeated washing and regular wear in desert conditions, they will probably look just as light as in the picture.

Tropenhose M40 in Miniature

Tropenhose M40, kurz – Tropical Shorts, olive.

The dark olive of the M40 repro tropical trousers compared with our mixture of ten parts Tamiya XF-90 »Red Brown 2« and four parts Tamiya XF-63 »German Grey«, B.S. 381C »Khaki Green № 3«, and Revell 36.362 »Reed Green RAL 6013«. The official colour of the M40 tropical trousers was reed green, a desaturated, muted green that differs only slightly from the green melange of the M40 paratrooper smock.

German Miniatures of World-War Two