Desert paint color

[Mike Starmer]

Thanks for the feed back on 'desert pink'. There was of course a standard but as you say when the pressure was on then certain measures have to be taken. The actual colour was quite pale compared to Light Stone, described as like that of a new British common housebrick. This is borne out by the few colour photographs and film that I have seen. In b/w pictures the tone is quite light. About the colour range FS 33531/ 30450 but no doubt somewhat darker in view of the mixture given by you. There was another temporary combination used for a short time in the early period of the Sicilian campaign was 5 parts Desert Pink to 1 part Dark Stone as substitute for Light Mud. Given that this mixture is specified in orders it surely follows that there was a standard for Desert Pink. Ah! the joys of modelling.