HI All

Just looking to start painting a Triumph 3HW at the moment, Any one know the ral or BS number for Sand Camo ?

Regards

Carl

email (option): carl.chezz@cwgsy.net

Ha ha ha ha ...............

Couple of months ago started painting my 3HW - wanted to paint it 'milky tea' brown so went down to Duxford to blag a sample off a vehicle - all are desert or green.

Eventually had some mixed up, once it was allied I didn't like it at all (it was a Skoda brown RAL ....) -
So its ended up with a very unauthentic Khaki (Scandia) paint job, which does seem to have some yellow in it(?) making it particularly unauthentic as I understand it was this pigment that was in short supply in WW2.

Worried what to do, until I read around the subject and looked at pix on this forum - seems damn near anything close in color will do, as all the paint suppliers provided their own version of the MOD spec.

I suspect the 'official' version of the correct color is that no bikes were supplied in a 'desert' color, either the original m/tea or green, color faded or a 'sand' color was applied locally using whatever color was available ?


I'm sure someone who knows what he is talking about will correct the above, but I've even started to hand paint bits on the bike for maximum authenticity ...?

email (option): ginantonik@tiscali.co.uk

HI There

I have been thinking about firwoods Paint either BS420 Dk camouflage Desert sand or BS361 Light stone

Regards

Carl

email (option): carl.chezz@cwgsy.net

I really do like that 'Firwood' paint to use. I used their 'Dunklegelb' for my 3HW, which I bought from 'Jeep parts uk' It's obviously a German colour, but I just couldn't bare the primrose yellow that was on offer as a British colour. Ron

email (option): ronpier@talk21.com

Ron,

I like your 'Dunklegelb' but there does seem to be variations - the khaki color I have used is supposed to be 'Dunklegelb' but seems to be at the greenish end of the spectrum.

I wonder how much effect artificial lighting (and the camera used?) effects the picture color - 'my' khaki color looks very different (from something like this pix color to more green) depending on whether I have the workshop doors open or am working under strip lights - god knows what things will look like when I convert to LED panels.

Was the air filter fitted/used on all bikes or just for desert use?
Cannot remember seeing them on European theatre bikes pix ?

email (option): ginantonik@tiscali.co.uk

There are variations. This is what google images show.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=dunkelgelb&biw=1280&bih=899&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0CCEQsARqFQoTCNbIidKP38YCFSaB2wodoSIN_w

At some point during the later part of the war (I don't know the date) Must WD bikes where fitted with a Vokes filter as standard. That must have helped set up Vokes Ltd from Guildford into the global company it now is. Ron

email (option): ronpier@talk21.com

Ron,
my dunkelgelb color was more like dunkelgelb nact muster - RAL7028, end of the spectrum.

Looks ok to me, though not really authentic ..?

RE; Air filters, yes I can see they would have left the factory with them, but I can image that they were soon 'lost in action' as they look uncomfortable!

email (option): ginantonik@tiscali.co.uk