terrierman

Very interesting Sean, as you say it could be a number of things,

the paints been on there 50+ yrs so wasn't sure of the colour so played safe and painted mine Mid Bronze Green.

Regards

John

I Bought a tin of sky blue and painted some on the engine and its not the same colour, the old colour on the engine is more a greenie blue as Austin says

Regards

John

JOHN

l would send them a reminder a FOI request normally takes no more than two to three weeks the delay might be due to the Christmas and new year break but it cannot hurt yes l would like to see a picture of the engine before you painted it

REGARDS WALLY

Here you are Wally

Regards

John.

JOHN the RLC MUSEUM only hold cards for the army vehicles you could try a freedom of information request the e-mail address and detail s are on to days post of the thread Austin K9 GS

Hi Wally,

Yes I Sent them an Email about 2 months back and havnt heard anything yet, although at the time you said it would take a while.

Would you like to see a picture of the engine colour before I painted it.

Regards

John

Thanks for the information Lads,

If my truck was RAF would they hold the records at VEHICLE RECORD RLC DIGTAL ARCHIVE or somewhere else as they have no records at above address

Regards

John

Looks good, John.

 

Did you get a history for the truck? It's an RAF engine, though I suppose it may have been changed or converted. I see someone's put an alternator on, as well.

Hi Sean,

Applied for the history of the truck but they said no record could be found,

How do you know its an RAF Engine.

Previous owner changed the electrics and added the alternator

Regards

John

I Painted my trucks engine Mid Bronze Green,

The Sky Blue was nothing like the colour that was on the Engine

Regards

John

This is the Bracket and Oil Can Sean mentioned Pekka,

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John

It says GS on plate,

Don't know what the handle is for, I havnt got it on my truck,

Sean or Wally will know

Regards

John

Would Love to see more pictures Pekka,

Im hoping to make some drawings of an Original GS Back would you like a copy when ive finished them

John

All the bits are there though Pekka,

What back did it have on it and what back are you putting on it

John

The square flap could have torn off. Certainly looks as though it could be original - the ones on mine were padded with horsehair or similar as well (just to help them rot out when they got wet).

 

Pekka, I think we need to see photos of this K9.

As Sean says Pekka would love to see a picture of your K9

Regards

John.

Thanks Pru and Austin,

the Camo truck looks nice Austin

Thank You for your replies

Regards

John

Whats the best stuff to use as Underseal on the bottom of my truck

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John

Nice tidy truck

Thanks for the reply Wally. I hope there is a military storage area somewhere with those K9's just waiting to be found Seems to be quite a few coming K9's coming out of hiding lately.

 

Sorry for the thread highjack John. :blush:

:cheesy: Im Enjoying it Austin.

JOHN on the question of the colour of the fan on a factory fitted engine the engine would be mid bronze green and the fan

black on a military replacement engine the engine would be sky blue and so would the fan

Thanks Wally,

Regards

John.

Hi John, I'd leave it just plain DBG then. I have seen a photo of an in-service K9 with black over DBG but it looks odd & you'll have a nightmare with the rivet counters. Do the prep thoroughly & it'll look fine in DBG.

 

Never seen or heard of a factory red engine, and I don't see Austin having used it. From what I've seen I think early engines were DBG (or a very similar dark green) and then for much of the production run they were using sky blue (BS381C 101) straight from the factory, but Richard, Wally or others may know better.

 

I don't get involved with FB but I had to have a look after you told me about that group.

Thanks Sean

Il leave it as you say just dbg,

I asked about the engine fan being red as mine is, but it could be red oxide,

Glad you enjoyed the Album

Regards

John

If you're making as good a job of it as it looks on FB you won't need to hide any faults.

 

You could spray matt NATO green and brush black but that puts it roughly post-1968. Not sure that makes any practical difference though.

Thanks Sean,

Didn't know you were into facebook, everything seems to be coming together now

Ive already bought the Deep Bronze Green paint so will paint it with that.

Sean would the engine fan have been painted red when it left the factory

Regards

John

Thanks everyone for your comments,

I Think il spray the truck deep bronze green (Saturn) then paint the Black camouflage (Saturn) on after. Hide a lot of faults:laugh:

Very Sad.

Thanks for all your replies, Found it interesting and love the coach picture.

one other think is the fan on my K9 is painted red would that have been a standard colour or would it have been green

regards

John

Thanks everyone for your answers very interesting

Regards

John

Thanks Gas.