Info needed: correct colours for WWII Aust vehicles

[cliff]

Mike Cecil has failed to add that he sorted out the main Aussie WW2 colours using Humbrol model paints.

For POST 1942 Aust service green use -
10 parts #150 – matt Forest Green
02 parts #100 – matt red brown
01 part #33 – matt black

Buy these small tins from a hobby shop and mix to the above formula then take your sample to a paint shop and they should be able to match it. I have the formula, also done by Mike Cecil for Light Stone, Earth and PRE 1942 colours as well if interested.

Again thanks to the dedication of Mike Cecil we can reproduce these original colours for our models as well as the real deal!

post 1942 ASG on a 1/35 scale Aust. ambulance



Pre 1942 ASG and Earth on a 1941 Chev heavy recon wagon



not forgetting that these models are also weathered!

[Mrs Vampire]

They look fabooo

and many thanks for the formula. I will do the Stuart in that now to track down the two tone camo for the blitz.

The Stuart has the original American green under two layers of Australian paint and one layer of Australian Olive Drab ...circa 1969 ...that I applied way back in the mid seventies.

The Olive Drab I used was Ex Stock ADF .

[Mrs Vampire]

Just from the picture of your models my Olive Drab is a lot darker than your Blitz.

[Mrs Vampire]

This thread really says it all so far as colours are concerned

http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...ad.php?t=12627

[cliff]

The Khaki Green is Post 1942 green as mentioned above while the light stone formula is as follows

Humbrol paints again

8 parts #74 matt linen
1 part #26 matt Khaki

This gives a nice two tone cammo with the light stone being applied over the green.

Mike Cecil's formula again

[Mrs Vampire]

Taa Cliff

[Mike Cecil]

Cliff,

I had forgotten all that! How many years ago was that? I don't remember actually coming up with a Humbrol-based formula, but I certainly remember having done a lot of work on paint colour matching back in the early-mid 90s when I was given a copy of the Standards Assoc booklet (very much pre-AWM days, by the way). Mike Starmer (UK) and I had quite a deal of communication about it at the time.

Actually, we should probably thank my long-suffering artist wife, Krystii Melaine for the matching: I'm hopeless at it.

I'll qualify all this by saying that, despite the reference to Khaki Green this, or Light Earth that, the actual shades of these varied, due to manufacturer/batch differences, 'treatment' (how much thinner or matting agent is used, how well it was mixed pre-application, etc) and use, including sun/weather, dust, mud exposure, etc. Hence, there is never anything definitive about the shades of the colours once applied.

But in the absence of anything else ..... it makes a fine starting point.

Mike C