mix1, mat1. premixed paints? Any close to SCC2, or G3?

[Lionelgee]

Originally Posted by cliff

That is the post 1942 colour but Lionel has the choice of it or the bronze coloured paint of pre 1942 as his truck is a 1940 model.

Below are two 1/35 scale models I made and painted using the paint formula worked out by Mike Cecil at the AWM. The Chev fuel tanker is painted PRE-1942 Service Green the CMP Ambulance is painted POST-1942 Service Green which is the colour your cans of paint are.

G'day Cliff,

Its a great model Cliff - I never realised how much work goes into them.

Yep that colour on the 1941-7 Chevy model you posted a photo of is the same one that my 1940 is wearing. I noticed that the roof on the model has a roof hatch and some other bits and pieces. I think one is a grab rail - what are the other bits?

My truck has an intact roof with no sign of a hatch ever being installed. The only difference I can see in my truck and one a bloke owns who lives down the road from me is that mine had the hinged windscreen, a flap on the floor of the cab near the driver's feet that lifts up to access the battery and a bracket for a fire extinguisher on the wall of the passenger's side cab wall. No gun hooks are evident. The other bloke’s truck was bought new and spent its working life on the sugar cane farm so it never saw any military service. I would be going around and asking him lots of questions all the time except that his wife has recently been diagnosed with cancer so I do not wish to annoy them.

Kind Regards
Lionel

[cliff]

Originally Posted by Lionelgee

G'day Cliff,

Its a great model Cliff - I never realised how much work goes into them.

Yep that colour on the 1941-7 Chevy model you posted a photo of is the same one that my 1940 is wearing. I noticed that the roof on the model has a roof hatch and some other bits and pieces. I think one is a grab rail - what are the other bits?

My truck has an intact roof with no sign of a hatch ever being installed. Kind Regards
Lionel

Lionel below is 2 photos. The first is a 1940 Chev in the Northern Territories and the 2nd an AWM photo of the trucks in Malaya before the Japanese took over. The NT truck is a standard Civilian vehicle with an army GS body on it. No guard cut outs, no roof hatch and standard civy wheels. The Malaya truck has the cut out guards and 18inch combat split rims but again has no roof hatch and is basicly a civilian truck with GS military body fitted. So you can see a lot of this model did not have the access hatch in the roof whereas a larger proportion of the 1941 model had them as they were fitted at the Holden factory during assembly.

The model was built using AWM photos of fuel tankers in the Atherton Tablelands during WW2 and is accurate to the photos. There is the roof hatch with hand grabs in front of it and a clip that the hatch attaches too when open.

[Alex van de Wetering]

is this the colour you,r after ??

Bob, I will send you my postal address by PM

What a great find! The colour I am after is SCC2, but it is interesting to see that G3 was used a lot longer in Aussie service than with the Brits here in North-West Europe.

Alex, if you look in the C8 parts list, the only colours mentioned are "matte green" and "light stone".

Dave, good point. I see what you mean. I am going after SCC2, because I want to dress my C8 up as a vehicle as it would have appeared in the UK/NWE in 1943/44, but I agree.....my truck would never have had this colour from the factory.
You have seen my truck, it's rust allover, but there are traces of G3 on the cab rear wall and traces of both G3 and SCC2 on the dash. There is another green colour on the windscreen frame (outside) and traces of a dark colour (maybe camouflage) on the inside as well as the outside, which looks blue-ish.
I still have to make some time to study the paint traces properly, but as I wrote above the idea is to paint the truck SCC2. I do fancy your conclusion you wrote down in the list and I might even be tempted to go for a partically G3 truck with SCC2 on the easily accesible places.
But, there will always be a certain deviation from reality because most of us like to spraypaint parts the best we can, in stead of using a big old brush covered in paint, dust, sand, grease like it was sometimes done in WW2.

You know I have come from scale modeling and in modeling we fancy some variation in colours. So, it's more likely to see the colour variations you mention on a scale model rather than on a restored vehicle. Although I do have to say that the desert rats F8 (Clifton Lang?) in the UK is green on the inside!

Alex