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Thoughts on colors of tools stowed on AFV's,

So over the years I have heard that tools stowed on vehicles were generally over-sprayed with the vehicles overall camouflage color. What are peoples thoughts on this? On many models you tend to see people paint the metal parts of the tools gunmetal and the wood, a wood color. I must admit I have seen many American tanks and even old tools in military surplus stores, painted all OD green, at the same time I have seen German tools with the wood parts painted a dunkelgelb but the metal heads a natural color. What are you thoughts on this? Was it just a preference of the crew in WW2, maybe laziness in not taking tools off the vehicle and spray painting it all in place? Over the years I have done a mix of both natural colored tools and some over sprayed.

So guys if anyone is listening,

I want to talk about Italeri, and its quality over the years. I remember in the late 80s, a lot of their even then, older kits having out of scale figures that were bigger than 1/35 figures from Tamiya, although even some of Tamiyas early 70s kits seemed to have out of scale figures too. But Italieri had very thick parts. I will say that I think italeri shined in the aircraft department with its 1/72 scale aircraft and many kits were of aircraft not seen in any other kit. A lot of bombers, seaplanes,etc. They also shined with civilian trucks and military trucks as well in 1/35 and larger. I have not built any of their more recent kits but what is other opinions of the company now? I have seen reissues but have not built anything from them in a long time.

question guys,

What do you guys prefer using to simulate wires to machineguns on 1/35 armor. I want to simulate the wires/cables that go to IDF machine guns on Israeli tanks. I need something super thin but often when you go to buy the wire the MM or gauge specs are off or does not offer a good interpretation of its size in pictures. What size would you guys recommend? The wires that go to machine guns would have to be a lot thinner then antenna aerials. I was hoping to find a spool of it cheap. I generally make my own aerials from stretched melted sprue but control wires weave all over and plastic sprue is not going to be as easy as bendable wire is so its not going to work for this. So many Merkava model builds are missing this critical detail.

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