Info needed: correct colours for WWII Aust vehicles

[Jacques Reed]

Hi Mike,

Ah yes! Remember well a few trips to the Wattyl trade depot at Moorrabbin 20 years ago to get the current ADF paint. The Internet was new then so not a lot of info out there. Even if it was, monochrome screens and dot matrix printers would not be of much use. If it was Army Green/Olive Drab/Khaki that was good enough to put on anything other than a Jeep in light of any other information.
Most military vehicle restorers only restored Jeeps then of which their correct colour paint was easier to obtain. I think even the VMVC was just called the Victorian Jeep Club originally.
No one restored CMP trucks and on more than one occasion back then I was told I must be crazy to be doing it. I too, was never really happy with the colour but it sufficed until some better information came to hand.

Anyway 20 years on I bit the bullet and have started the repaint job beginning with the spare set of wheels. They have already had the POR15 treatment inside after a few hours on the flap disks smoothing out as much pitting as possible.

Note the difference in the colours between the current ADF Olive Drab and the recently acquired KG3 on both the wheels and the test patches.