Info needed: correct colours for WWII Aust vehicles

[Mrs Vampire]

Hanno

I am looking at Alkyd too. It is a current Australian Army preference and truck I have seen with original coats from the seventies seem to endure very well.

Likewise found it easy to use apply and so on.

[Lynn Eades]

Gina, does it work if i want to apply touch up coats, or paint bolt heads after assembly, or to add another colour on top in the case of a camo scheme?

[Mrs Vampire]

Lynn ...yes it is easily touch up able and can be painted over. painting over old coats only needs prep wash to arrive at good adhesion.

Brushing on a bit here and there over sprayed coats are nearly undetectable.

The military enamels used in Australia have to be able to be used in the field with primitive equipment by untrained troops. That is about the same as the requirement during WWII.

[Mrs Vampire]

Values for British Standards WWII paint from BS987C 1942

L* a* b* R G B
SCC 1A 24 3 5 64 55 50
SCC 2 22 24 12 89 37 37
SCC 4 44 17 17 140 94 77
SCC 5 62 2 22 166 147 111
SCC 7 34 1 11 89 80 63
SCC 10 37 30 25 140 65 48
SCC 11 25 .-1 10 64 59 44
SCC 11A 37 52 40 166 35 23
SCC 15 32 0 27 89 75 32
SCC 16 22 2 16 64 52 30

[Mrs Vampire]

Another discovery today on the rear armour of the Stuart. Nice blue stencils for the equipment . This one for the AXE

The stencil is under the Light Stone paint but above the Green .

All other stencils I have found so far have been black

[Mrs Vampire]

Reading the documents I came acros this by the Inspector general of Munitions October 1943.

I completely substantiates Mike Cecils position on the local purchase and mixing of camouflage paints and the paucity of information supplied to those applying it.

This from one of Australia's primary Ordinance Workshops in our largest manufacturing centre within a stones throw of the paint manufacturer and twenty kilometers from the Camouflage Establishment at North Head.

If it ain't possible to get it right in those circumstances ..it just ain't possible to get it right.

The paint referred to B.A.L.M 369 is one of the Alkyd enamel lines ( spraying superseded by 388 and 393 in the fifties) the Nitrocellulose line was 200 series paint.

[Mrs Vampire]

Then this on Khaki Green N0 3 for which I cannot find a paint chip but is apparently close to one on the War memorials samples.