Staghound Paint Scheme

[Roger Lucy]

I came across an interesting snippet in the XII Manitoba Dragoons War Diary for 17/10/1944, to the effect that OD paint was in short supply, and that the CO was considering whether painting vehicles in a mixture of yellow and black paint would be suitable. Some vehicles had already been painted that way.
This sounds like a rather gaudy scheme - and I have not seen any pictures which might show any vehicles sporting it - or were the paints literally mixed together? As the unit was dug along the Leopold canal at the time, the muddy result might match the surrounding terrain.
Roger

[peter simundson]

In the military if we couldn't get OD you take a gallon of black, dump out 25% and start pouring in yellow. After a short while the nicest OD shade turns up. Extremely close to 24087. Painted
helmets etc with this mixture. Also painted my first M38 with it.
(In 1975.)
Simundson

[marco]

Hi Roger and Peter,

I went through my 12th Manitoba Dragoons photo's to look if there were any vehicles showing a "peculiar" color.
Of course, it is very hard to tell from B&W photo's what colors are used and from Peters story one may conclude that it would be nearly impossible to see the difference between original OD and the black/yellow mixture.

However, I found one photo showing a difference.
All photo's I have show vehicles in the familiar dull paint but this Staghound looks to have had a more shiny paint job.
The photo was taken shortly after the war.

Marco