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Sandblasting has it's advantages and disadvantages. It will certainly find the weaknesses in the body: ie rust. Thats a good thing. Once sandblasted, the metal is ready to patch. But don't leave the metal bare for more than a day or two or it will start to rust.

The biggest problem with sandblasting it that you will strip bare areas where you can't get the paint back into. Underneath the vehicle, you will also remove what little Zeibart remains.

Regarding the "unit level" standards, the standards were actually dictated both in the FMC standing orders, and later in the Brigade standing orders. Units were supposed to follow these guidlelines, but of course, with the long chains of commands, they could get distorted on the way down.

I know in the last unit I was in, I ordered a few hundred of the red Canada Flags to install on our vehicles as per the Brigade orders. The installation was nixed by slightly higher up (MWO) who felt the red was not a desirable colour on the cammed vehicles.

I would strongly recommend using the cam pattern as shown and attempting to get the 3 colours as close as possible. Any "2 colour" cam jobs were simply a failure in the chain at either getting the proper information or paint to the users level. I have also seen a few pieces in museums where the restorer's just painted away, without researching the proper paint schemes. It does the history of the vehicles a dis-service IMHO.