Info needed: correct colours for WWII Aust vehicles

[Mike K]

There must have been many items apart from vehicles, painted in KG3 ?

This is a WW2 era Aust. made capacity meter . The front panel is a different colour than the box ???????? My guess is, a different manufacturer made the case . This item has never been repainted , I can guarantee that.

I have opened many WW2 Aust. wireless sets and the internals are generally clean and the paint is pristine . Mike

[Mike Cecil]

"My feeling at present is that it is an ACF version of British Camo green ...in a similar way to the Aircraft from the US being exported to British lend lease in Camo Colours of their own invention ( Curtis and Lockheed for instance )"

Yes, I think you are most probably right in that conclusion, particularly given the extent to which you have researched the subject.(I think we have all been pretty impressed with that!!)

I wasn't doubting that Dakin made comments about fading of KG-J: but I couldn't comment or add to that, as I hadn't seen those notes, only the one I had about KG-3, which I threw into the mutual information 'mix'.

I haven't spent a lot of time tracing cammo this last year - been a bit preoccupied finishing 'Leopard AS1' and 'Pioneers of Australian Armour'.

PM seen and answered: sample chips packed.

Regards

Mike