Matte, matt or flat
It's all the same. One other thing that may have been mentioned before (or not) is that the interior paint (UK or USA) was matte and very 'chalk-like'. The purpose was to have it fragment to a powder rather than chunks if the vehicle's hull was penetrated by an anti-tank round. Even a small flake of regular paint at high velocity would become shrapnel. The story goes that this caused grief in Commonwealth armoured formations because the powdery interior paint easlily scuffed off creating both imperfect uniforms and vehicles come inspection time. Having said that, the NOS Canadian parts I've seen are almost semi-gloss but have yellowed a great deal over time.
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20-03-09, 02:32
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