Paint Colour SCC15 for Dieppe Churchill

[Lynx22B]

A full scale replica has been built for the Calgary Tanks regiment for their museum gallery. Down to the correct paint colour, and this number has come up. Anyone have info on it and what it actually looks like?

[Adrian Barrell]

SCC15 is British olive drab, not in use until April 1944 so not correct for Dieppe. Most likely SCC2 is the one you want, khaki brown.

 

http://patrickbaty.co.uk/2011/10/05/wartime-camouflage-colours/

[Lauren Child]

Mike Starmer's "British Army Colours & Disruptive Camouflage in the United Kingdom, France, and NW Europe 1936-45" is a book you might want to take a look at. It's the only place I know of to find paint chips colour matched to examples of each paint colour (although as others have pointed out on various threads, there was likely considerable variation in the colours).

 

You might also want to take a look at the (black and white) photos in "Dieppe through the lens of the german war photographer" by Hugh G. Henry and Jean Paul Pallaud. You can see two tones of colour in some of the photo's which might tie in with SCC2 / SCC1A camo from the other book. These are photo's of the actual Dieppe vehicles captured immediately after the battle. Sobering stuff.

Edited November 26, 2013 by Lauren Child

[minsk]

On 11/26/2013 at 10:52 PM, Lauren Child said:

Mike Starmer's "British Army Colours & Disruptive Camouflage in the United Kingdom, France, and NW Europe 1936-45" is a book you might want to take a look at. It's the only place I know of to find paint chips colour matched to examples of each paint colour (although as others have pointed out on various threads, there was likely considerable variation in the colours).

 

You might also want to take a look at the (black and white) photos in "Dieppe through the lens of the german war photographer" by Hugh G. Henry and Jean Paul Pallaud. You can see two tones of colour in some of the photo's which might tie in with SCC2 / SCC1A camo from the other book. These are photo's of the actual Dieppe vehicles captured immediately after the battle. Sobering stuff.

I think the two tones are from where the waterproofing was attached to the tanks