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Loving this thread. FYI Britain at War magazine did a very good feature on Dieppe in 2017. Back issues still available here...https://shop.keypublishing.com/issue/View/issue/BAW0124/britain-at-war-aug2017
Colour and ShadeScale modellers, artists and re-enactors all worry about the "correct" shade of the Battle Dress uniform. The truth is that there really is no one correct shade.A look at original samples will reveal that no two items of army clothing ever really looked the same (as an aside, the East Germans in the 1970s and 1980s came close, by the use of large amounts of synthetic material.)Many difference factors conspired against the possibility of finding two sets of Battle Dress in precisely the same shade:different manufacturersdifferent dates of manufacturedifferent material lotsdifferent dyes used in creation of those materialsdifferent lengths of exposure to sun, salt water, and chemical impregnation (ie the use of anti-vessicants before D-Day)storage facilities and stores that did not bother to keep matched BD suitsEven during the intial issue of Battle Dress in 1939, blouses and trousers were being produced by different factories; one regimental history noted that the colour was so vastly different that there was reluctance to issue the trousers and blouses together.
Thanks... but not a great start though...The Churchill on the cover is the wrong colour and it's got covers on the air intakes (taken off to fit wading kit )