Info needed: correct colours for WWII Aust vehicles

[Mrs Vampire]

More on Paint .
I have a spare rear for my Ford Gun Tractor No 9. The paint on parts are pristine on other parts faded .

The paint is perfectly matched to Khaki Green No 3 Australian .
The paint has faded to the all to familiar Yellow that Khaki Green J fades to so from faded paint it is impossible to distinguish KG3 from KGJ.

Keith Webb has identified the part as having been made in September of 1944 which is consistent with the change to KG3 order of Dec 1943. My spare rear was a NOS spare recovered from Hughes trading in Coburg Melbourne in the seventies.

My earlier question was: given the huge stocks of paint held by the vehicle manufacturers would they have persisted with KGJ or followed the order and changed to KG3 ?? .
Although not conclusive evidence to hand supports the view that the change to KG3 was made in Dec 1943(they may have exhausted their stocks of KGJ by Sept 1944 and earlier relics I have viewed from 1944 appear to be KG3 from new. )
If the change to KG3 was made by Manufacturers in late 1943 early 1944 it rather suggests KGJ was able to be toned down to KG3. That also would support my theory that KG3 Australian was a a local colour and not an adaptation of British KG3 which Mike Starmers colour chips suggest was a quite different colour.

Dakin and other archive files make it clear that KGJ was toned down once in mid to late 1942 and again in the early part of 1943 . Perhaps a little bit more evidence that KG3 refers to the third version of KGJ .

A lot more is needed to absolutely nail all of this down but evidence from the artifacts and the archive seem to be pointing in this general direction.

Finally a match between my spare rear for the FGT and Bob Moseley's version of KG3 are identical, suggesting Bob had it absolutely right. I will compare that sample against the colour chip in the Melbourne Archive and nail it beyond question.

I think we are on safe ground with KG3 I am still in need of further evidence on the question of Light Stone and KGJ which I, at this point, think will only be resolved with spectrographic evidence from the archived samples. I am still of the View that the 2pdr anti Tank carrier in the Bandianana collection has it as right as is possible on the current evidence.
I am still of the view that the pre war and early 1940 to 1941 colour was bronze green No 24 as per the British Army specification.