Reading the book Beute tanks volume 1,(very good book) there is mention about the British tanks Mk IVs painted in a brown colour that looks like the results from a babies nappy. The book mentions that there is only one tank left in Belgium a Mk IV L47 Lodestar that has its original colour in this brown. It seems a good match for RAL 8008, anyone know the correct colour, is it a BS381C colour. Anyone reccomend a good modeling paint match
There seem to have been a lot of variations in the brown colour used on the WW1 British tanks as you would expect from the paint technology of the time. I've seen the colour described as "chestnut-brown" in contemporary accounts although the colour of Lodestar in Brussels doesn't seem to be quite that colour.
BS381 didn't get started until 1930 so there isn't a colour reference for the WW1 colours. However, some of the pre-existing colours did get subsumed into the BS381 standard.
The colour of Lodestar is similar to one at Bovington. You are right about BS381C that it didn't get started till the 1930sand pre-exisiting colours were taken under the code scheme. I may enqure at Bovington, many thanks.
