Info needed: Another Damne WW2 CMP paint colour question

[Jordan Baker]

Not sure if you have seen this one before. Not trying to thread jack this but Im curious to find out what the desk came from. It is a very odd design.

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Jordan Baker

Not sure if you have seen this one before. Not trying to thread jack this but Im curious to find out what the desk came from. It is a very odd design.

I'm not sure what that table is from. Certainly not HUW or HUP if it's even from a truck.

What is interesting is how a slightly different colour setting can turn khaki/black into brown/dark brown. About the only thing that you can use as a standard to set the colour in these two photographs is the battledress blouse. But even these change colour in real life depending on whether they are inside or outside in the sunlight.

[Jonathan Moore]

I would say that it is black and personally speaking I think black looks right, model paints are ok but sometimes can be very misleading.

Jon

[Paul Dutton]

Originally Posted by Bruce Parker

I'm not sure what that table is from. Certainly not HUW or HUP if it's even from a truck.

What is interesting is how a slightly different colour setting can turn khaki/black into brown/dark brown. About the only thing that you can use as a standard to set the colour in these two photographs is the battledress blouse. But even these change colour in real life depending on whether they are inside or outside in the sunlight.

Also different manufactures and material was used on Battle Dress. I have about 10 sets and no two are the same colour, from slight shade variations to very dark and very light.

[Ed Storey]

John Marchant in the UK owned a Canadian HUW that he had purchased after the war. His vehicle had seen service with the Toronto Scottish in NWE and was still pretty much in its original camouflage. Here is an image of the HUW after a run to Normandy in 1984.

S79-19 John Marchant and HUW - 9 June 1984 copy.jpg

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Ed Storey

John Marchant in the UK owned a Canadian HUW that he had purchased after the war. His vehicle had seen service with the Toronto Scottish in NWE and was still pretty much in its original camouflage. Here is an image of the HUW after a run to Normandy in 1984.

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Nice pic Ed, there's a lot of helpful detail in it.

A couple of thoughts: it is an early HUW as indicated by the rad overflow can and would most likely have been factory No.3 khaki, as it appears to be. It has been repainted as the CZ number, WT and bridge class sign are just slightly off size and location. I follows that these were applied after the whole truck got a spruce up paint job. The pattern of the cam looks like it was meant to duplicate the original (I hope!!).

Also it's interesting to hear it served with the Toronto Scottish. They were the machine gun battalion for the Canadian 2nd Infantry Division. Up to now I've been under the impression HUW's were more often issued to signals and artillery regiments and this opens up many more marking options. What I think may have happened is that towards the end of the war HUW's were being replaced by better, roomier wireless trucks. The surplus HUW's were then issued to alternate users as general purpose vans. One example is a HUW used by a chaplain and now possibly this Toronto Scottish one.

[Ed Storey]

Besides the Army the RCAF also employed HUPs, here is one that has just arrived on the Italian mainland.

RCAF HUP.jpg