goanna Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 This is for the anoraks out there into camoflage http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/NAAMedia/ShowImage.asp?B=3367578&T=PDF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedawnpatrol Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Really interesting Mike, thanks for sharing that. Jules Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikestarmer Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 I found this very interesting too since to date I have never found out exactly what Dark Tarmac No.4 looked like. A Canadian contact says a very dark blue grey whilst many years ago it was reckoned to be almost black. Contemporary colour photographs taken from the web do seem to show the blue-grey shade. If I have read it correctly, I see that in the formuala for mixing there are small elements of yellow and red. These combined with black would give the finished colour a slightly green tinge. I would dearly like to see the sample mentioned in this document and compare it with some type of current standard. If, of course, the archivist did include it. (they often don't!) So much for the oft stated "wartime paint was made cheap wasn't it?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goanna Posted February 24, 2015 Author Share Posted February 24, 2015 (edited) I found this very interesting too since to date I have never found out exactly what Dark Tarmac No.4 looked like. A Canadian contact says a very dark blue grey whilst many years ago it was reckoned to be almost black. Contemporary colour photographs taken from the web do seem to show the blue-grey shade. If I have read it correctly, I see that in the formuala for mixing there are small elements of yellow and red. These combined with black would give the finished colour a slightly green tinge. I would dearly like to see the sample mentioned in this document and compare it with some type of current standard. If, of course, the archivist did include it. (they often don't!) So much for the oft stated "wartime paint was made cheap wasn't it?" Hi Mike That particular information was found by Gina, he has a thread going on the MLU forum http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/showthread.php?t=19995 We believe there is a Dark Tarmac #4 sample as mentioned in a Melbourne archive . Gina has put a lot of effort into this research . I myself believe it is a very dark green , almost a black colour . There are traces of a very dark blackish green as disruptive camo on my 1941 Morris Commercial PU vehicle, the vehicle does have sections of faded WW2 camo visible . The vehicle also has a light stone remnants painted over the original 2 green camo scheme . I will take some pics . The bits of grey on the top RH are the remains of the grey paint applied by Lanes Motors in Melbourne 1945 , the dealers . Mike in Australia Edited February 24, 2015 by goanna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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