[Mrs Vampire]

The issue of eye matching and local purchase has been covered previously ..put simply if it happened at all it was exceptional,
Despite notions that things were complete chaos in 1942 the Army had an effective supply chain and ordinary paint was very hard to get on account of strict rationing...the only paint available to units would be to scale and to approved colours....

There are not so many vehicles with recoverable external paint. I have looked at quite a few and finding parts of vehicles and using complicated recognition methods I have yet to find one with paint that is not one of the official colours. I also note paint under a seat or chassis rail is not indicative of the external camouflage finish it shows the factory finish which varied over time for instance the factories were still painting KGJ in 1944 when the colour was KG3 and most of the spared were the earlier colour...overpainting in Army workshops prior to issue was the rule. There were huge ordnance workshops in all states.

Here is an example and one that will never be sandblasted out of existence .

Btw earlier in the thread there is a link to a Passing out Parade at Parkes NSW showing a remarkabl;e uniformity of colour if a somewhat interesting pattern ,,, as it should be