Flathead Colour

[tankbarrell]

It's your engine Alastair, paint it the colour you are happiest with. Trying to interpret colours from black and white pictures, especially wartime ones is, I would suggest, fraught with pitfalls.

[Lynn Eades]

You could always take a bit of all of those colours, and mix them together. Then the right one has to be in there........as long as you dont mind having a brown motor, that is

[RichardT10829]

Guys i am with Adrian on this one.... paint it red if you like...mine is Myford Grey because i like it, if for any reason my carrier ever gets used in a movie set and they want engine repair shots to be included i will worry about what colour to paint it. As i have maintained my ethos on this subject is the lump should be the jewel in the box a work of art in its own right

you could do as Lynn says....or.....paint it striped with all the different colours you think it should be then you cant go awry

have fun kids

[tankbarrell]

I'm not advocating that you paint it any colour you like, anybody is free to do so though personally, I don't think you should. I believe we should strive for authenticity but it is obvious that there was more than one colour used, all of which are correct.
I sympathise with Alastairs desire to be exactly correct but at the end of the day, he is doing it for himself so it doesn't matter what anybody else may think.

[ajmac]

That's the nub, colour changed through production in both the US and UK, who knows about Canada. If I don't get the correct colour then never mind, however I wouldn't want to think I hadn't tried my utmost to get it right, or at least be able to justify my choice from either a photo, original literature or another primary source.