Australian camo colours

[Pedr]

Hi Tony,

Are you sure that the document that you have listed is Protec's sheet relating to the properties of their 342 series paint range?

It looks and reads awfully like the standard that they were to manufacture to, to meet the ADF's requirements. In a perfect world, the paint would perform exaclty as the standard requires, however, I would be very suprised if this was really the case.

If this really is the case and the paint performs exactly as the Milspec requires, I'd definately be in for ten litres of each colour out of your two thousand litres, and could probably interest a few more people to purchase similar amounts if you are serious about this. At ten litres, it's only 200 people.

As far as colour, if there is an original colour spec book with paint swatches/chips from the era, firstly the book will have had to have been moslty closed and stored in a cool dry dark spot for the colour to have not faded or changed it's properties.

Secondly, if this is the case, ( and I don't understand why no one has thought of this before ) the printing and painting industry have a standard system that they use called PMS or Panatone, so that no matter where you are in the world, you can print the same picture with the same colour. You can't send or transmit these by computer as computers are all set differently and you won't get the same colour, so they are printed into a book.

Therefore, if we can get a copy of the original color standard book, that has been stored correctly and colour match it with a PMS/Panatone book, we will have a colour that can be matched by any paint manufacturer around the world, for vehicle painting and even model makers.

Protec already have a colour standard for "Khaki Green No. 3" that Bob set up some years ago now, although I am not sure how they arrived at the colour that they decided upon.

So finally, I am definately interested in ten litres of each colour of 342 if they are colour matched to original colour samples, and will definately find more sales to move the paint.

Pedr.

[Tony Smith]

Originally Posted by Pedr

Hi Tony,

Are you sure that the document that you have listed is Protec's sheet relating to the properties of their 342 series paint range?

It looks and reads awfully like the standard that they were to manufacture to, to meet the ADF's requirements. In a perfect world, the paint would perform exaclty as the standard requires, however, I would be very suprised if this was really the case.

If this really is the case and the paint performs exactly as the Milspec requires, ...........

Pedr.

The document is not published by Protec, but is the standard published by APAS that replaced ADE/7650 (M) which covered the original Olive Drab Enamel introduced in the Mid 60's. Protec's 342 series paints fully comply to this standard, in fact usually exceed the critieria set. When I asked Protec for their MSDS and properties sheets for the paint, that is one of the documents they referred me to.

[Bob Moseley (RIP)]

Hi Pedr - I arrived at my version of this colour from the "Brenda" restoration. I located the colour on an area that had never been exposed to the elements therefore the colour had never been degraded.

Bob