Wartime Tilly Colours - book

[Richard Farrant]

Thanks Mike,
Will look out for that book.

regards, Richard

[Mike K]

Don't want to sound like a cynical person but: WW2 era vehicle colours are open to so many different variables and interpretations , especially back then with their eye matching techniques and the matting agents added into the paint mix. . Would be a nice thing if one paint company had manufactured all of the paint used on British soft skins for the duration but that isn't a likely scenario. I reckon the book is worth having, the more information we have the better, but the book cannot be more than a general guide for restorers.

[Chris Collins]

I think its great that this little book is available again.

I think Its a reasonable starting point, especially when there is a dearth of information that's readily accessible, not everyone has access to IWM or Bovington archives.

Sometimes you just have to look at available information and have a stab at painting your truck, just don't get all evangelical about it! I think Mike Starmer admits his KG.3 is based on only a couple of extant samples, so is sketchy at best. But I think the Standard Camouflage colours are very well recorded. and sure It may vary from batch to batch back in the day, but so will the paint you buy. I guess you can just hope you hit a happy medium and natural variation will do the rest.

To worry too much is a path to madness.

Mike Kelly: We've clashed on colour before, I do not intend to antagonise, I approach this as a relative Newbie who wants to see paint on his vehicle with a degree of research, and accepts that there is a degree of doubt about colour, there will always be doubt, we don't have time machines.

Cheers


Chris