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Old 17-09-20, 20:58
James P James P is offline
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Originally Posted by Jakko Westerbeke View Post
His actual complaint was not so much that they took a military green from a DIY store, but that they have one of the world’s best collections of original British manuals, instructions and more for this kind of work, and didn’t bother looking at them to see which colours the vehicles should have.


Ah, that makes sense, yes. Better sell the one you own than one you don’t.
I see where you are going with this and can agree. Colours of paint can and does set folks hair on fire and as my restoration mentor David Crompton says "You put as much effort into making (paint?) something wrong as making it right". To that I add "there never seems to be enough time to do something right the first time..........but always time to do it right on the second go". Original reference material to work from are books on colours such as Real colors of WWII Armor https://ak-interactive.com/product/r...dated-version/ ) are a big leap at getting it right, the first time. That said the Borden museum vehicles look a hellish pea green and look as wrong as two boys kissing in my books.
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