Hi Steve
According to the colour chips I have FS34079 is much to gray for 503-319.
The best match seems to be the 383 green (FS34094)
It seems that 304-322 was used on the Iltis's original from factory paint as the lighter green.
Other than that use it is anybody's guess where else it was used. But it likely would have been part of the camo scheme to better match units with faded paint that needed touch up's or was just wholly substituted for 503-319 as seems to be the case on some vehicles with fresher paint jobs as they are way to light to have been painted with 503-319.
503-322 is not a sea foam but a true green the posted pictures can be deceiving and it looks a little more blue in the pictures than it actually is. There are 11 different Sea Foam greens listed in the 1-GP -12C colour specs so sorting out a specific Sea Foam would be pretty hard unless you had the colour chips in hand to match it and most all of them had Gloss Semi Gloss and Flat finishes.
For the TOW MUTT the colours would be 503-319 as the green 503-321 as the olive and 503-310 for the black. That would be a factory fresh paint job.
After the first paint it could be any body's guess. As I'm sure all supplied paint for repaints did not exactly match the 1-GP-12C colour chips , as was noted before who knows how long the paint sat for and was stored
Even today there are colour variations in different batches of paint from the same manufacture. Plus paint was supplied to the CF by god knows how many different suppliers at the time across the country. So variations in the colours are almost a given.
So really their is a lot of latitude when matching colours.
Matthew
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