Sherman IC T-269916

[Maurice Donckers]

Jakko, under the postwar paint which easily flaked off , the where the things I discovered , it was the same with the tank from Tim , just his got graffiti on it afterwards.
Don,t start about color, I have none of my vehicles in the same shade , I Examine a non touched part , and gets analyzed by my paint supplier(easy these days), I have a also a lot of new old stock parts , and even these go from very light olive drab to dark olive drab , Jeeps are lighter than what GMC used, also the Canadian brown comes in different shades .

[maple_leaf_eh]

As a Canadian and former member of the Sherbrooke Hussars, which perpetuates the 27th Canadian Armoured, I am impressed by your determination to restore this tank and to be honest to its origins.

[Maurice Donckers]

thank you Terry
, I started with an empty Hull even all the idler wheels where gone, I knew that the turret went to france in the beginning of the 80ies , so when that came up for sale i went back to the hull, to put everything back together . but most time consuming where all the little bins and brackets for the interior , Engine is build up with surplus NOS bits, so is the drive train

[Jakko Westerbeke]

Originally Posted by Maurice Donckers

I Examine a non touched part , and gets analyzed by my paint supplier(easy these days)

Sounds like you’re doing it right, then (Unlike someone I know who paints his vehicles in whatever shade of military green he likes.) It’s just that the way you said it made me think you used the USAAF colour on a ground vehicle, which is something a lot of modellers do because they’re confused about olive drab, and model paint manufacturers are too.

[Tim Bell]

Originally Posted by Jakko Westerbeke

Sounds like you’re doing it right, then (Unlike someone I know who paints his vehicles in whatever shade of military green he likes.) It’s just that the way you said it made me think you used the USAAF colour on a ground vehicle, which is something a lot of modellers do because they’re confused about olive drab, and model paint manufacturers are too.

I have found many shades of green on parts for mine!

Hard to know if the original paint the original colour, or faded, or added post ww2.

If there is a definite answer, it would be great to know... in the meantime, I will start with US Olive Drab for the 1944 period on the basis this is most likely the colour it left Chrysler with.

Tim

[Maurice Donckers]

Tim , for yours it is different again , yours is rebuilt by Chrysler again after it has been in used for training in the US. So has already had 2 coats before it arrived for conversion in the UK , but the post war paint didn`t stick that well on yours either , so the markings where readable again , mine had untouched paint behind the air cleaners , and inside the grouser box, i have 2 drivers hatches NOS , and they match that color.

[Tim Bell]

Maurice. It doesnt matter what colour we paint our vehicles... someone will always say it is wrong! Good to know you have a paint match to work from for yours.

[Jakko Westerbeke]

There is also the debate on which parts of 17-pounder Shermans were repainted in the UK. According to some, the whole tank was resprayed SCC 15, while others claim only the British bits were.¹ Because SCC 15 is a similar colour as OD No. 9 but slightly greener, and the two weather differently, if only parts were repainted, then the tank would soon end up looking greenish brown with clearly greener parts on it.


¹ The gun, gun shield, radio box, loader’s hatch, stowage bins, spare track racks, smoke launchers, sun compass mount, tie-downs on the left turret front, fire extinguisher holders, and brackets for the gun cleaning rods (did I miss anything?) — but on a Sherman IC not the appliqué armour on the hull!

[Maurice Donckers]

Jakko, on the HMVF forum I posted a long time a go a picture from the T number , the tank was delivered with a big white star on the side , but this was overpainted in the same color as the tank before putting the T number over it , but the black shipping number was not over painted