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Originally Posted by cliff
That is the post 1942 colour but Lionel has the choice of it or the bronze coloured paint of pre 1942 as his truck is a 1940 model.
Below are two 1/35 scale models I made and painted using the paint formula worked out by Mike Cecil at the AWM. The Chev fuel tanker is painted PRE-1942 Service Green the CMP Ambulance is painted POST-1942 Service Green which is the colour your cans of paint are.  |
G'day Cliff,
Its a great model Cliff - I never realised how much work goes into them.
Yep that colour on the 1941-7 Chevy model you posted a photo of is the same one that my 1940 is wearing. I noticed that the roof on the model has a roof hatch and some other bits and pieces. I think one is a grab rail - what are the other bits?
My truck has an intact roof with no sign of a hatch ever being installed. The only difference I can see in my truck and one a bloke owns who lives down the road from me is that mine had the hinged windscreen, a flap on the floor of the cab near the driver's feet that lifts up to access the battery and a bracket for a fire extinguisher on the wall of the passenger's side cab wall. No gun hooks are evident. The other bloke’s truck was bought new and spent its working life on the sugar cane farm so it never saw any military service. I would be going around and asking him lots of questions all the time except that his wife has recently been diagnosed with cancer so I do not wish to annoy them.
Kind Regards
Lionel