Identification please for my new CMP

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Jacques Reed

I found a hobby paint supplier AK Interactive that makes the SCC2 Brown paint for modelmakers. I was just interested if anyone has experience with it and has any information how accurate it is?

Perhaps if it is correctly formulated, like Testor's paints which are derived from US Federal Standards color chips, it could be used to create a colour chip. That could then be taken to any good paint supplier and a formula developed from it. Most paint suppliers now have computer matching services.

I have an interest in this as I am beginning to think the Canadian sourced parts on my Australian Ford CMP truck were painted SCC2. This would explain some of the brownish coloured components on the truck compared to the greener KG3 painted Australian manufactured parts, which are mainly the body parts.

Just a thought anyway.

Here's a link to their website. Colours seem to be as well researched as Testor's Model Masters series.
http://www.akrealcolors.com/

Hello Jacques,

I see AK-Interactive is working with experts, including Mike Starmer. In that case I'd say their S.C.C.2 should be an exact match. Buying one tin of this paint to prepare a sample for your local paint supplier to match would be the easiest way.

Matching paint from NOS parts has been done also and has led to good results. On one of my old webpages I had the following photo of paint samples Dirk Leegwater had mixed up from new old stock boxed parts. Mike Starmer identified the colours as follows:

CMPpaint.jpg

• Far left: SCC 2 (brown) Basic colour 1941-45 use.
• 2nd left: SCC1A (very dark brown) Disruptive colour 1942-45 use.
• 3rd left: BSC 381 Light Stone 61 Basic colour Desert 1940-43.
• Far right: Looks brownish on screen, could be SCC 15 Olive Drab or US olive Drab - NOT green enough to be Khaki Green 3

Hanno