Bellman was originally supplied to the British painted in a overall colour of dark green - possibly middle bronze green or an American equivalent - or even possibly in British olive drab. I have my doubts about American olive drab as this was a brownish green colour and should showup as a lighter colour in black and white. This colour can be seen as the green rectangle behind the WD number.

The original green colour is also visible on the attachment points of the sandskirts that seem to have been lost, quite recently, before the tank was knocked out. The colour is also visible where shell splinters have knocked of the paint on the left-hand slide.

British vehicles at this stage of the war were painted in a "Caunter" type of scheme. This comprised of three basic colours:

BSC 61 Light Stone as the basic colour, (a sand colour).

BSC 28 Silver grey, (light green-grey)

BSC 34 Slate, (dark green-grey)

Nowhere, have I come across any blue or blue-grey colour. I think that it would make an interesting subject to try and determine where this dreadful colour came from, anybody interested?

I see two colours on this tank - the overall light stone, and possibly slate or silver grey but not both. This seems to be a sub-Caunter scheme of which there are quite a number of variants to be seen.