Anyone can select any colour they like to paint their bike...After all not everyone is even trying to complete a restoration that is as close to original as practical/possible...
However, as I said in my previous post, if anyone is trying to do an 'ex factory' restoration adherence to an original specification is a must....
On that basis some decision has to be made as to what is close to the original colour and the information in the original post does help towards that end and is therefore useful....
If we are to constantly question the varying molecular make up of paint and how much was applied, the exact dimensional tolerances that were applied throughout the war etc. etc. then the possibilities become infinite and the specification impossible to determine...
Somewhere you have to accept, based on best information and surviving specifications, how it actually was!!...Ian
I looked at the group's technical specs page and found this on color- http://www.wdbsa.nl/colour.htm - which I thought, while helpful, is a bit unwieldy. These days with a HEX code or RGB value you can go to any professional paint shop and have an exact match mixed. I did a little digging into the BS381C colors and found the following four:
My question for the group is how close these might be to the original War Office specs. and if so what dates, makes, theaters, etc. they might apply. Other colors? Or if there is already resource online with this information which I couldn't find?