Info needed: correct colours for WWII Aust vehicles

[Jacques Reed]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

I have mentioned this before, a good prospect for finding matt paint is modern external house paint , it is usually water based and it's freely available in hardware stores .

Here is another option for solvent based enamels:

I was supplied the following tin of Viponds matting agent by my famous "We thought it was a once off tint so we did not bother to write down the tint formula". paint supplier for KG-J.
At least they seem to have gotten one thing right.

Viponds is an Australian product made in Melbourne and should be readily available.

I had good success with it even if I did not have success with the paint formula being reproducible.

The Wattyl Agricultural enamel only comes in gloss so they suggested the Viponds agent would be the way to make it Semi-gloss or eggshell.

As shown below the left chip is gloss Wattyl enamel as tinted and the right one is 1:8 ratio of tint to paint to get a "satin finish" as per their instructions.
It can be used as high as 1:4 ratio to get a "low sheen finish".

Cheers