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Australian M3 Stuart "Buna"
brettgibson
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Posted: Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 09:35 PM UTC
Hi all,

I'm up to the painting stage of my M3 Stuart at Buna. Any help of what green they were painted would be helpfully (US, Brit or Aust). As well as a paint match for the colour

I will post WIP pics of this build when I get my cable up and running again, in a couple of days.
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Posted: Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 09:52 PM UTC
I think you will find they were left in US Olive Drab with the white Australian Vehicle Registration number added over the (often) blue drab USA number.
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Posted: Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 10:44 PM UTC

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I think you will find they were left in US Olive Drab with the white Australian Vehicle Registration number added over the (often) blue drab USA number.
i agree with you the russians did the same thing as the aussies
Nylonathatep
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Posted: Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 11:49 PM UTC
Most likely ASC 'J' Khaki Green No. 3. Given the number of bits added on to the M3s I'd have a hard time seeing how they could not have been repainted.


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The colour of the vehicles has been the subject of much speculation. Most tanks would have arrived in Australia in either US Army olive drab or British khaki green. Given that a number of modifications were done to the tanks, that there are photos of the 2/6th’s tanks in camouflage during their training, it would seem most were repainted. If this was the case, then the colour would be Australian Khaki Green No. 3, a similar, but not identical, colour to the British khaki green

source: http://anzacsteel.hobbyvista.com/Armoured%20Vehicles/m3inactionph_1.htm

Possible mixes posted some time ago on Missing-lynx I believe:

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Mike Starmer reckoned that the FS matches that Mike Cecil came up for;

ASC "J" (Khaki Green) = FS. 33070

Paint mix
10 parts Humbrol 150
2 parts H100
1 part H33


I noted it for future reference for some Aussie stuff I want to build at some point, I haven't used it.

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Posted: Friday, April 20, 2012 - 10:20 AM UTC

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Mike Starmer reckoned that the FS matches that Mike Cecil came up for;

ASC "J" (Khaki Green) = FS. 33070

Paint mix
10 parts Humbrol 150
2 parts H100
1 part H33


I noted it for future reference for some Aussie stuff I want to build at some point, I haven't used it.

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yes that is the Post-1942 Australian Service Green formula. Mike Cecil also did Pre-1942 Australian Service Green, Light Stone and Earth formulas using Humbrol enamel paints as reference. No formula in acrylic though for these colors and looking at paint conversion charts some of the Humbrol paint shades are not done by other manufacturers
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