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Harzen cannot be held responsible in any way for any variance between the colours and those they are intended to match. In addition, the colours of paints from different suppliers can vary - even for BS fan deck colours and change over time. The finished colour therefore, may not be as shown here. Pearl, metallic and luminous colours cannot be shown adequately. The displayed colour will depend upon the settings of your monitor and browser. 'The colours depicted are for guidance only. You could possibly buy a single colour chip for BS 381C 663 RAF Blue-Grey from here and match to that? Quote from: antarmike on 16:12 I have owned a number of RAF vehicles and trailers, these all had areas of original paint, My expereince is that rather than darkening it actually fades lighter. )īelow Mighty Antar freshly painted, compare with trailer sides and wheels that had never been repainted since it was built in the late fifties.

It won't however be the same as many of the other original paint shades. I think the truth is there was variation in the original Blue-Grey paint that was first applied, so if you you choose a colour you are happy with, then it will probably be correct for at least one of the colours appearing over the years on vehicles in the RAF or in Land-Rover production. I had been to Military vehicle events were no two RAF Blue-grey vehicles are the exact same colour. We have all seen lines of DBG Land-Rovers, each is a different colour. I think determining which shade is the correct shade is a difficult as determining which is the correct mix to get Deep Bronze Green. Pigments were dry pigments and batches of paint could vary in colour from batch to batch (from the same supplier) because of inacurracies in weighing out the ingredients. Each companies paint reacted differently to ageing, weather, sunlight, some darkening, some fading. Some companies got closer to the chip colour than others, each manufacturer probably used different pigments in different quantities to achieve what they thought was the best match. Paint suppliers got the colour chip from British Standards then each company used their skill and experience to mix a paint they were happy to call the same colour as the chip.

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I think it all come down to the fact that the original BS381 33, and the subsequent BS 381 633 and then BS381C 633 colour only existed as a colour chip supplied by British standards, There was no formula as to how to make the colour, what base, what pigments and in what quantities the pigments were to be added. Non have really matched the trailer extesions, existing paint (such as Fuel tank on a Matador that had never been repainted or the inside of the Ballast box on my RAF Mighty Antar) or matched colours from previous batches from that supplier or batches from other suppliers. I have bought countless tins of paint mixed to 663 Blue-Grey. The most original paint I had where on trailer bed side extensions from a 30 ton Crane trailer, that had never been used but were stored in a shed, out of sunlight, at RAF Cardington, more or less from the day the trailer arrived, new. I have owned a number of RAF vehicles and trailers, these all had areas of original paint, My expereince is that rather than darkening it actually fades lighter.

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