Info needed: correct colours for WWII Aust vehicles

[Tony Wheeler]

Nowadays Mike the professionals use portable handheld spectrometers. As Gina mentioned a while back: "Florite paints have provided all the spectrographic analysis and colour matching , even visiting the Tank with their electronic equipment to ensure we had it right."

The advantage of spectrometry, obviously enough, is that it doesn't rely on human eyesight and lighting conditions. As opposed to our Senior Curator wandering the dimly lit bowels of AWM storage clutching his 1905 Munsell Book of Colours. Of course, in this particular case the artifact can be removed into daylight, where an acceptable colour match for our purposes may indeed be possible.

Gina, you mentioned back in September: "spectrographs of the AWM and AA chip sets remains a high priority for me." Is it possible to get Florite in to spectro the AWM chips? If it's a question of costs I'm happy to contribute.