Looking for Canadian M151A2 Pictures....

[Eric B]

Hello

After an extensive search i have found the proper CDN Camo paint.

From the Canadian Govt Specifications Board ,manual 1-GP-12 and using the DND Camo pattern the proper colours are

Olive Green 503-321 (Olive Drab) NSN8010-21-870-7533
Green 503-319 (pea/light green) NSN8010-21-576-2558 (This is not to be confused with the earlier 503-319 from 1957,which was much darker)
Black 512-301 NSN8010-21-576-1987

I tried searching for the equivalent in the currently used Federal Standards (US) which replaced the CDN Specifications in 1991.
There are no crossover references and the CDN Govt was unable to provide any help.

I also contacted all of the paint manufactureres who are named on my original cans, no help there except for PPG who wishes to see my paint samples to look up their current stock by scanning. (Don't think it will be there though, but will try).

Camo paints from the US are cheaper and are close, but i have noticed that there is indeed a difference.

Fortunetly i had an original can of Olive Drab 503-321, and a can of green 512-319, (which i had made by mistake over 15 years ago and did not know what it was), i painted samples and had scanned.

If you go the automotive paint route you will be paying big dollars and will have to add a flattener. This will also be in acrylic paint as Oil based automotive paints in Canada are being phased out.

If you go by direct application industrial paint, which is oil, it comes already flat and is aprox $85.00 a gallon.

Clive Law of Service Publications will be the first to have his M38A1 CDN painted with the new paint by fellow collector Don Dingwall.

The paint samples seem to have a nice contrast with each other and the colours work nicer together than the faded original samples. As on my M151 A2 or my M38A1. (Which explains why we chose that colour to begin with.)
The faded look just does not give it justice.

Based on the outcome we will post the data and hopefully a photo of the finished product so that everybody will have access to these unique CDN colours.

Stay tuned... I know there are already two others locally waiting in line for these paints including myself.

I also have the info on the two shades of CDN gloss green available.
I will check if these are also available in the direct application paints. One is greener and the other one darker than the US shades currently available.

503-121 Olive Green NSN8010-21-898-1723
This is the gloss version of the 503-321 in the camo.

Will have to compare the other sample to my Specs book for the proper number when i get it back.

Thanks

Eric Ottawa