paint colour code "dark earth"

[Local Chap]

Originally Posted by Dianaa

It turns out that "dark earth" has a BS 381c code 350

Dark Earth 1A was an Air Ministry colour and wasn't officially listed under BS381c until the 1964 edition, when it was given the code 450. In the 1971 edition of BS381c, it was re-numbered 350. The BS381c numbering uses group numbers for broad colour families, with 4xx being "Greys" and 3xx being "Browns". The error was corrected in the 1971 update.

However, the P40 would have originally been painted in a US color called "Olive Drab", which was very similar to the UK Dark Earth. This had the US reference ANA22, which became 30118 when the FS595 standard was created in 1949.

[Mike Cecil]

..... and if it was Australian, it would have been ASC Dark Earth (just to help with some confusion!).

Australia had their own standard colour chart for camo colours during WW2.

Mike c

[Dianaa]

All this code stuff gets confusing. I didn't realise that the 381c was also revised by year!

Should I answer the flag question in a separate thread?