Info needed: correct colours for WWII Aust vehicles

[Mrs Vampire]

Many thanks everyone for you kind words and encouragement.

Rod I will keep my eyes peeled for WWI stuff. I imagine that is close to the Genesis of WWII paint and given that Alkyds and Nitrocellulose lacquers weren't invented until the mid to late twenties....I wonder what on earth they used!!!

[Mike Cecil]

So, Gina, hopefully we'll see all of this research consolidated into a publication 'Australian Camouflage of the Second World War' (or similar - my mundane titles need a little work!) sometime?

I'm sure there is a lot more complexity to what you have discovered and 'distilled' out for presentation here, but it would be great to have all that detail in a handy reference (websites are a bit too 'temporary' for my liking - flick off the power and they are gone. I suppose that's old fashioned?) . I'm always ready to buy a copy or two of a good reference.

Nice work.

Mike

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Mike Cecil

So, Gina, hopefully we'll see all of this research consolidated into a publication 'Australian Camouflage of the Second World War' (or similar - my mundane titles need a little work!) sometime?

I'm sure there is a lot more complexity to what you have discovered and 'distilled' out for presentation here, but it would be great to have all that detail in a handy reference (websites are a bit too 'temporary' for my liking - flick off the power and they are gone. I suppose that's old fashioned?) . I'm always ready to buy a copy or two of a good reference.

Nice work.

Mike

Ive been thinking along the same lines . A smallish book could be published , the many publishing formats these days . Of course it takes time and the rewards are not always forthcoming

[Mike Cecil]

Yes, it takes time, but Gina is apparently already spending a significant amount of time in the research phase, so I was hoping to motivate her to move to the publishing phase......

REWARDS??? Only the love of the subject, Mike......

After 10 or 11 books, with two more currently 'in press' and due to be released in 2015, I can assure you that the rewards are NOT financial!!

Krystii keeps pointing out that maybe its the subject matter ....you know, dry, lack of character development (even characters!!), plot, etc etc !! Hmmm.... she may have a point there.

We do it because .... well, I'm not really sure sometimes...

Mike

[Mrs Vampire]

So far as a book on camouflage is concerned my main worry is that it would be hard to find .... :/

[Mike Cecil]

chuckle.. chuckle!!

Nice one Gina!

[cliff]

Originally Posted by Gina Vampire

So far as a book on camouflage is concerned my main worry is that it would be hard to find .... :/

LOL good one. BUT! If there was one I'd find it for my collection

[Mrs Vampire]

another file released.

It cost me thirty bucks so you could read it so I hape you all do

http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/NAAMe...=3367640&T=PDF