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is this the colour you,r after ??
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Bob, I will send you my postal address by PM
What a great find! The colour I am after is SCC2, but it is interesting to see that G3 was used a lot longer in Aussie service than with the Brits here in North-West Europe.
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Alex, if you look in the C8 parts list, the only colours mentioned are "matte green" and "light stone".
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Dave, good point. I see what you mean. I am going after SCC2, because I want to dress my C8 up as a vehicle as it would have appeared in the UK/NWE in 1943/44, but I agree.....my truck would never have had this colour from the factory.
You have seen my truck, it's rust allover, but there are traces of G3 on the cab rear wall and traces of both G3 and SCC2 on the dash. There is another green colour on the windscreen frame (outside) and traces of a dark colour (maybe camouflage) on the inside as well as the outside, which looks blue-ish.
I still have to make some time to study the paint traces properly, but as I wrote above the idea is to paint the truck SCC2. I do fancy your conclusion you wrote down in the list and I might even be tempted to go for a partically G3 truck with SCC2 on the easily accesible places.
But, there will always be a certain deviation from reality because most of us like to spraypaint parts the best we can, in stead of using a big old brush covered in paint, dust, sand, grease like it was sometimes done in WW2.
You know I have come from scale modeling and in modeling we fancy some variation in colours. So, it's more likely to see the colour variations you mention on a scale model rather than on a restored vehicle. Although I do have to say that the desert rats F8 (Clifton Lang?) in the UK is green on the inside!
Alex