Sherman IC T-269916

[Jakko Westerbeke]

Originally Posted by Maurice Donckers

I Examine a non touched part , and gets analyzed by my paint supplier(easy these days)

Sounds like you’re doing it right, then (Unlike someone I know who paints his vehicles in whatever shade of military green he likes.) It’s just that the way you said it made me think you used the USAAF colour on a ground vehicle, which is something a lot of modellers do because they’re confused about olive drab, and model paint manufacturers are too.

[Tim Bell]

Originally Posted by Jakko Westerbeke

Sounds like you’re doing it right, then (Unlike someone I know who paints his vehicles in whatever shade of military green he likes.) It’s just that the way you said it made me think you used the USAAF colour on a ground vehicle, which is something a lot of modellers do because they’re confused about olive drab, and model paint manufacturers are too.

I have found many shades of green on parts for mine!

Hard to know if the original paint the original colour, or faded, or added post ww2.

If there is a definite answer, it would be great to know... in the meantime, I will start with US Olive Drab for the 1944 period on the basis this is most likely the colour it left Chrysler with.

Tim

[Maurice Donckers]

Tim , for yours it is different again , yours is rebuilt by Chrysler again after it has been in used for training in the US. So has already had 2 coats before it arrived for conversion in the UK , but the post war paint didn`t stick that well on yours either , so the markings where readable again , mine had untouched paint behind the air cleaners , and inside the grouser box, i have 2 drivers hatches NOS , and they match that color.

[Tim Bell]

Maurice. It doesnt matter what colour we paint our vehicles... someone will always say it is wrong! Good to know you have a paint match to work from for yours.

[Jakko Westerbeke]

There is also the debate on which parts of 17-pounder Shermans were repainted in the UK. According to some, the whole tank was resprayed SCC 15, while others claim only the British bits were.¹ Because SCC 15 is a similar colour as OD No. 9 but slightly greener, and the two weather differently, if only parts were repainted, then the tank would soon end up looking greenish brown with clearly greener parts on it.


¹ The gun, gun shield, radio box, loader’s hatch, stowage bins, spare track racks, smoke launchers, sun compass mount, tie-downs on the left turret front, fire extinguisher holders, and brackets for the gun cleaning rods (did I miss anything?) — but on a Sherman IC not the appliqué armour on the hull!

[Maurice Donckers]

Jakko, on the HMVF forum I posted a long time a go a picture from the T number , the tank was delivered with a big white star on the side , but this was overpainted in the same color as the tank before putting the T number over it , but the black shipping number was not over painted

[Jakko Westerbeke]

The white star would have been there from the factory, the Americans were very keen on painting them on there. It recently came up on Missing-Lynx that the British ordered large quantities of American OD paint in 1943, most likely for touching up American vehicles. Chances are, I would say, that they used some of that to overpaint the stars on your tank. But did they then paint the 17-pounder modifications with that same paint or with British OD (=SCC 15)?