Staghound Paint Scheme
 

I came across an interesting snippet in the XII Manitoba Dragoons War Diary for 17/10/1944, to the effect that OD paint was in short supply, and that the CO was considering whether painting vehicles in a mixture of yellow and black paint would be suitable. Some vehicles had already been painted that way.
This sounds like a rather gaudy scheme - and I have not seen any pictures which might show any vehicles sporting it - or were the paints literally mixed together? As the unit was dug along the Leopold canal at the time, the muddy result might match the surrounding terrain.
Roger

Paint.
 

In the military if we couldn't get OD you take a gallon of black, dump out 25% and start pouring in yellow. After a short while the nicest OD shade turns up. Extremely close to 24087. Painted
helmets etc with this mixture. Also painted my first M38 with it.
(In 1975.)
Simundson

Hi Roger and Peter,

I went through my 12th Manitoba Dragoons photo's to look if there were any vehicles showing a "peculiar" color.
Of course, it is very hard to tell from B&W photo's what colors are used and from Peters story one may conclude that it would be nearly impossible to see the difference between original OD and the black/yellow mixture.

However, I found one photo showing a difference.
All photo's I have show vehicles in the familiar dull paint but this Staghound looks to have had a more shiny paint job.
The photo was taken shortly after the war.

Marco