70s-80s 3 Color Camouflage Discussion

[Scott Bentley]

Originally Posted by matthewq4b

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

Like this:

All are 383 CARC Green.....


Oh ya, BTW, after talking to the Unit Painter here, for those of you who find white paint under your 383 CARC, it may actually be the Primer Wash that ships with the CARC and not a UN Paint Job.

[Matthew Reid]

Originally Posted by armybuck041

Like this:

All are 383 CARC Green.....


Oh ya, BTW, after talking to the Unit Painter here, for those of you who find white paint under your 383 CARC, it may actually be the Primer Wash that ships with the CARC and not a UN Paint Job.

That is a good example of much the 383 CARC fades. On my M1010 the paint is the same colour as the LSVW on the far left.
The colour very closely matches (a little lighter) than 503-222 Green. Initially I thought it had been painted 503-322, until I noticed the colour of the paint where the Front License plate used to be, the paint there was not really faded that bad and is pretty damn close to 383 /502-319.



The bumper on my M1010 demonstrates really well how badly 383 fades.

Most of the vehicles that end up in our possession are many many years past their last paint job and the paint is badly faded.

So This gives a person a lot of latitude when painting as you could paint it to represent all kinds of time frames after the last paint. I still suspect the 530-322 was used to touch up faded 383/503-319. As it comes very close to faded 383/503-319. And their is no question it was used as the light green on the Iltis from the factory. Lord knows why this was done. But that is a question we likly will never be able to answer.


Matthew