Scout carrier progress

[Philliphastings]

Sorry guys, I am definately NOT computer savvy. They vex me no end When I first began my Police training it was on an olivetti typewriter !

At the moment it's the best I can do seeing as the local internet place is not staffed by technically minded personnel either.

Cheers for now

Phill

[Philliphastings]

The recent addition of a sandblasting cabinet to the workshop has seen me joyfully blasting lost of small parts and fittings for the Scout (as well as Ferret, Landrover, Caterpillar and Mil Radio bits)

I have started the habit of first recording the part numbers of each Scout item, then priming and painting as I go.


It's immensely satisfying to see each little piece come back to life.

I settled on thefinal colour of the machine based on the remaining paint under the rear battery box. Still have to match what I assume was 'Light Stone' as the camouflage but that will be toward the end of the rebuild.

Will post up pics shortly

Cheers

Phill

[RichardT10829]

if you are going light stone (like mine) the current UK BS paint also called light stone is incorrect for the period... the new light stone is more towards the 1940's Desert ZI Pink.... if you have a cromadex factory near you get RAL1002 10% matt. 222 fast air dry paint. it looks like Chicken Korma when you spray it on but darkens slightly... i found this to be one tint away from my actual swatch i had from Mike Starmers Book. and the paint was 50% cheaper than war paint suppliers on Milweb (Cromadex are one of the main suppliers to the UK armed services)

Light stone is a base coat, the disruptive could have been a number of patterns.... if it was me i would go caunter.. (i love that pattern) but i would recomend buying Starmers books on the subject.. Caunter alone had a number of variants from year to year and i think there are two or three books on the subject.

[Ron Pier]

I wanted to spray one of my motorcycles in a desert scheme. The colour on offer for British vehicles was a bit Primrose for my liking.
So I bought Cromadex from 'Jeep Parts UK' It's their German desert colour which they call something like Dunkel Gelb. I think it looks like light stone and I'm very pleased with it. Ron

[Philliphastings]

We have a choice of two large paint suppliers in Perth - Protec and Chameleon paints. I have used both companies and I'm happy with the colour matching and pricing but one is considerably more economical than the other.

There is a substantial portion of the front lower hull still camouflaged and allowing for fading I think I can have the ramaining colour fairly accurately matched.

Going by the two existing photo's of the vehicle in service I will replicate the two tone camouflage used fairly extensively in Western Australia during the war.

Really looking forward to painting the whole machine but that's still quite a long way down the track...

Cheers

Phill.