I stand to be corrected - Caunter scheme

[olicana]

Ah yes, the fabled whitewashed rocks... Did my basic training at Bassingbourn. They still had them there in the 1980s

Indeed, not so fabled. Whitewash and rocks were a standard punishment. The severity of the punishment being decided by the size of the brush you were given.

Also, couple of shots of the finished Regiment. These photos show the colours much better, though not quite as they are, than the 'pattern' model which looks much bluer in those shots for some reason - it's one of the ones without commanders. They are actually even less blue - the paint mix was a little blue added to grey.

[Fitz]

I recall reading in Spike Milligan's war memoirs, when his battery were in Italy, they received orders to repaint all their guns in the field — maybe not actually in the middle of a battle, but certainly on active service. He didn't go into details as to whether they were to be painted to a specific pattern though, and his colour description couldn't have been much more basic: he just said "yellow and green".

Those orders certainly didn't take any account of local conditions, because they had to use all the gunners' blankets to cover up their new "camouflage" colours and make them inconspicuous.

[vodkafan]

I like the blue.  Your matildas are fantastic.

[Harry Faversham]

I'm going to be doing a Brtish tank in this scheme soon. What would the Brethren suggest Vallejo paint wise for the colours please? I'm brush painting, and to be honest near enough is good enough, so long as I get in the parish!

 

[Etranger]

It won't help directly as he uses enamels, but this is the update (2019) for Mike Starmer's recommended paint mixes for British armour. https://www.mafva.org/british-vehicle-camouflage-1939-45/?v=6cc98ba2045f

[Fitz]

For what it's worth, Vallejo now produce a set of ModelAir paints covering the Caunter scheme and early war British AFV colours. It's handy having pre-mixed bottles of Silver Grey and Khaki Green No.3, for example.

[carlos marighela]

If you are brush painting and want acrylics then AK Interactive do six bottle Caunter set. Also allows you to do some other desert patterns like the Sudanese one.

[Hang Tuah]

All Vallejo cited in these links:

https://cracdeschevaliers.blogspot.com/2018/09/wip-4-rtr-desert-matildas.html

https://www.warlordgames.com/step-by-step-painting-the-caunter-scheme/

https://alliedarmour1940.wordpress.com/2016/10/01/vallejo-paint-mixes/

[Harry Faversham]

Thanks caps, much appreciated.

 

[Harry Faversham]

Command decision has been made, following Vallejo paint pots for a Caunter Battleaxe Crusader...

70.888 Olive Grey........ dark shade

70.884  Stone Grey...... mid shade

70.883 152 Silver Grey.. light shade