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Old 20-06-05, 05:39
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Default Kahki Green #3 paint colour

Hi everyone

Well I got my paint back from teh paint place the other day. Spent Saturday spraying parts.

Anyways Ive taken a couple of scans.

The first shows the inside of one of the ebay mirrors. I took it apart figuring it would be very NOS paint. The second part is a piece painted in the paint mixed up. For the paint mixed up I used the inside of a Mk2 helmet as it matched parts with the paint still intact.

The ebay mirror is much more green then what I had mixed up. Also my paint ended up being semi gloss when it should have been flat. So this may be changing slighty how hte colour looks to me.

Would the ebay mirrors be Kahki Green #3 or are they something else? If they are infact KG#3 it would apear at least to me that the paint fades from a Green/grey colour to Green//brown and then finally 60 years later to a yellow/green for those parts that have been out in the sun.
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