CDN M151 Colors

[Wayne Hingley]

Hi Robert. This is probably the most comprehensive discussion about that subject on MLU.

http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...lor+camouflage

[r.morrison]

Whoa Wayne.....you're right! Having been a Commercial Painting Contractor for over forty years, choosing paint colors is like going on a suicide mission. Many many years ago, a number of local boys approached me about making paint (gallons, quarts and spray bombs). I was all for it.....until I went on the MLU Forum. As you have just shown me Wayne....walk away! And this was when gallons of paint and spray bombs (rattle cans) were cheap!. There was a place here that would make spray bombs for $5.00 plus the paint. For me that was $35.00 and you'd get 40 spray cans from a gallon. Any colour you want. You do the math!!
The easiest way is if you can get a sample of the original colour (untouched by the sun) and formulate your product from there. Once you have that, you can put in virtually into most products available and end up wth the same colour!
I may not know alot about vehicle mechanics....but paint and colours are my specialty!!
Well not sure what to do here as I am completely lost with all these colour codes.
Wayne.....throw me a rope, I think I'm drowning!

Cheers all.....Robert

[rob love]

The basic colours can be ordered from RAPCO and others and shipped up to the border. Use the FS codes that are referred to elsewhere on MLU.

I used to use tremclad flat black for the camo. But they changed their formula and the usual xylene just curdles when added to the paint in order to try and spray it. Acetone will work as the reducer. However, tremclad now costs more than the Gillespie ordered from Rapco.

For hardener, I have been using Krylon farm and implement catalyst. Amazon is kind of pricey. I found it at Peavy mart for $20 a can.

[Wayne Hingley]

I agree with Rob, and that is what I used on my M38A1CDN2 in 2017 and the paint is holding up well. The RAPCO option is straight forward.
Rob's post #31 in the thread linked above has all the required paint codes. The camouflage pattern is also shown in the linked thread (post 23), and is same for M151 trucks. Hope that helps.

[rob love]

The Canadian Olive is always the hardest to find of the 3 colors. At one point, the description on the Cdn Catalogue of material started referring to it as FS34084, which is used on US aircraft but not vehicles. As such, RAPCO doesn't carry that color. When I talked to RAPCO at one of the conventions, he indicated he could have any FS made up as long as it was a 50 gallon order. I do go through a lot of paint, but I don't think I will live long enough to go through 50 gallons of one color.

An order like that would basically amount to $3000 Canadian before shipping and tax. Not outrageous but not for me.

Tempto Aerosplace lists the colour in a variety of formulas. No idea of their price, but it's a Cdn company out of Toronto. https://tempo-aerospace.com/colour-g...dstd595-34084/

[Ed Storey]

Hopefully it is a M151A2 that he wishes to 'do up in Canadian colours' and not one of the earlier models. When first purchased in 1974 the Canadian M151A2s looked like any other American vehicle at the time as they lacked the roll-cage were in semi-gloss OD.

[David Dunlop]

Hello Ed.

When the M151’s first arrived here in Winnipeg at Kapyong Barracks, I recall them all lined up in a very odd, but interesting, light tan, rusty red and brownish cameo pattern with no roll cages. They sat there for quite a while until they all got reworked into the typical Canadian colours and were fitted with cages.

Would the original camo scheme been a short lived Canadian idea, or would these vehicles have been in a US paint scheme and drawn from available US Storage to fill the Canadian M151 order?

David

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Ed Storey

Hopefully it is a M151A2 that he wishes to 'do up in Canadian colours' and not one of the earlier models. When first purchased in 1974 the Canadian M151A2s looked like any other American vehicle at the time as they lacked the roll-cage were in semi-gloss OD.

See some inspiration for Canadian M151, M151A1 and M151A2 on my archived web page which Ed supplied info and photos for: https://www.mapleleafup.nl/fordm151/m151cdn.htm
Colours range from plain white to semi-gloss OD or the camouflage scheme, depending the type and period.