Reading the documents I came acros this by the Inspector general of Munitions October 1943.
I completely substantiates Mike Cecils position on the local purchase and mixing of camouflage paints and the paucity of information supplied to those applying it.
This from one of Australia's primary Ordinance Workshops in our largest manufacturing centre within a stones throw of the paint manufacturer and twenty kilometers from the Camouflage Establishment at North Head.
If it ain't possible to get it right in those circumstances ..it just ain't possible to get it right.
The paint referred to B.A.L.M 369 is one of the Alkyd enamel lines ( spraying superseded by 388 and 393 in the fifties) the Nitrocellulose line was 200 series paint.
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