Staghound Paint Scheme

[Roger Lucy]

I came across an interesting snippet in the XII Manitoba Dragoons War Diary for 17/10/1944, to the effect that OD paint was in short supply, and that the CO was considering whether painting vehicles in a mixture of yellow and black paint would be suitable. Some vehicles had already been painted that way.
This sounds like a rather gaudy scheme - and I have not seen any pictures which might show any vehicles sporting it - or were the paints literally mixed together? As the unit was dug along the Leopold canal at the time, the muddy result might match the surrounding terrain.
Roger