I'm using Tamiya Olive Drab 2 in the rattle can (10 frikken bucks for something not much bigger than a binaca!!!) which is very similar to the paint Tim used. It depends on what colour you're using for your US tanks, but basically yes. So, just to be clear, painting my Russian tanks the same color as my US tanks would be closer than the dark Russian Green? The paint is of higher quality but the colour is still the same. 4B0 is still the standard base colour of russian military equipment. Most soviet equipment didn't last that long in service. As the paint aged it got progressively darker – but that takes years/decades. This is because soviet wartime produced 4B0 was chemically unstable. At the other extreme is the very dark green (but distictly olive) seen on well cared for museum vehicles (stored out of the elements). Paint exposed to the elements for that long will fade/bleach extensively. They had been built before the war and in some cases were 5+ years old. The light green (a yellowish pea green) that modelers are so enamoured of was commonly found on older vehicles encountered in 1941.

Different manufacturers, different lots, variable quality control. Was there some variation between paint lots? Yes, of course there was, but it wasn't drastic. 4B0 was applied to all manner of military equipment – tanks, vehicles, helmets, artillery, and aircraft. It's an olive drab/green virtually indistinguishable from US olive drab or british SCC-15. The soviets only had one standard green paint and it was 4B0.

Mr p paint modern russian tank green