CDN M151 Colors

[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

[Ed Storey]

Too bad you don't have a photograph of the M151's, as that was a uniquely Western Canada vehicle camouflage.

[r.morrison]

Hi all: many many Thanks for the input. I think that's enough. I will send the correspondence to my "friend" and see if that helps him out. Wayne, I don't know if you can pull this off. If you have any of that CDN2 paint left over, could you make me some large dry samples and mail it to me. I can have them matched. With all the little sprayers about, from air to electric to battery operated, he won't need to make spray bombs. Those cost a fortune to make now a days.
Once again, kind regards to all.

Cheers...Robert

[David Dunlop]

Damn!


I wish I had known that at the time, Ed.

Documentation for it has probably long gone out of the system by now as well.


David

[Wayne Hingley]

Originally Posted by r.morrison

Hi all: many many Thanks for the input. I think that's enough. I will send the correspondence to my "friend" and see if that helps him out. Wayne, I don't know if you can pull this off. If you have any of that CDN2 paint left over, could you make me some large dry samples and mail it to me. I can have them matched. With all the little sprayers about, from air to electric to battery operated, he won't need to make spray bombs. Those cost a fortune to make now a days.
Once again, kind regards to all.

Cheers...Robert

Robert: I have searched for leftover cans of the RAPCO/Gillespie paint I used on my CDN2, but unfortunately no luck finding any leftovers. Too much time has passed. Perhaps there is someone local in your area who has a vehicle you can get color-matching from... Sorry, wish I could help.

[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.

[Ed Storey]

Something that must be remembered and close attention paid to is that the various models of M151 vehicles used by Canada with the UNEF in the Middle East and the ICCS in Vietnam were vehicles supplied by the Americans for those specific missions.

The Canadian military only used the M151A2, and that was in both Germany and Canada. The vehicles were originally supplied in semi-gloss OD before eventually being camouflage painted.