Tony
I attempted to rub back a spot as you suggested. I did not manage to get as clean a circle of colours as you have but your method gives me a better indication than my previous efforts.
so I have in order of layers.
Yellow etch primer
Grey primer
Factory applied British Dark Green
Australian applied 1942 Khaki green (J)
Light Stone (N)
Modern Australian Khaki ( Me)
The News for me is :
1 the etch primer same as aircraft etch so far as it looks.
2 That the Stuarts were not US lusterless Olive Drab on arrival in Australia they were British Dark Olive green .. Because they were a part of a US lend lease contract to the British and prepared to a British spec.
This makes the photos of the unshipping of the Stuarts more understandable. It also explains why My Stuart arrived in Australia with a British "T" number painted on it and not a US "W" number. It also explains why the weird shipping numbers and symbols do not gel with any information about US Units or shipping . I need to look to British information not American.
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