question on factory paint
 

During the early years of WW2, did Canada also experience a shortage of ingredient(s) for green paint like Britain, and switched to using browns (such as SCC2) for military vehicles produced at home?

If they did, would the Americans have helped out with their olive drab paint, or the protocol was just to follow Britain's lead?

regards,
Jack

Hi Jack, this could lead to about 30 pages :) :) :)

As Canadian Carriers were being build to meet British requirement specs one would presume that this included painting to the base colour required at that time. I've not seen any primary documentary evidence requesting colour changes though...

Hello Lynn, is that 30 pages of documented evidence, or 30 pages of educated opinions - either way I'm interested in hearing from the members.

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ajmac, yes that makes logical sense that ordered materials would be finished in current paint standards of the receiving party.


regards,
Jack

Hello again Jack. It is just that paint is probably one of the most difficult things to deal with when doing a restoration.
Do you do it in a flat paint which begins to oxidize immediately, or maybe a two pot modern gloss paint.....or anything in between?
That's aside from the colour or some form of camo.
We have seen good people leave MLU because others have become toxic about their opinions.
We have also seen some very good info laid out in the forum, so you should ask.
Yes I was being flipant while wondering about the original base colour of my MkI* U.C., so am very interested in the answers you get. :note:

Lynn, thanks for that. Sounds like the pertinent documents that are hopefully still out there have yet to be unearthed - I was hoping otherwise, hence this thread.

One interesting anecdote I came across regarding US olive drab was that for a period it was brown in shade. This occurred when access to linseed oil from the far east was halted, thus the formula did without or some other ingredient was added, resulting in a brown drab that lasted for two years or so - exact dates not known. See the post by GeorgEyerman here:
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/miss...nseed#p1371878

regards,
Jack