Info needed: correct colours for WWII Aust vehicles

[Mike Cecil]

The Munsell values were assigned by a Senior Curator only recently. As a consequence of this discussion, the record is to be amended to make that fact more obvious. The amended record should be 'live' in a few days.

The Munsell system is a handy, easily portable and quick system that can be used in the office and throughout the storage areas, whereas it's possibly a bit difficult to get a tank or other large piece of equipment under a spectrograph, and chipping a piece of paint off an object doesn't go over well with conservators! I'm told that thus far, they (and the feedback from the public, mostly modelers) have found the results immensely useful.

Also, for potentially thousands of objects, you pay only once for the Munsell book, not for each and every analysis as you would using a 'spectro'.

I suppose its a case of 'horses for courses'.

Mike