Is ther a spray paint available in the USA that matches the original British color used on the BREN Tripods?
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Is ther a spray paint available in the USA that matches the original British color used on the BREN Tripods?
There's probably a correct colour for the tripod and I'm sure Peter L will know what it should be but from what I've seen, they can be brown, middle bronze green, olive, just any old green and of course rusty! Try one of the vintage British vehicle paint suppliers.
Deep bronze green. Same as the magazine box. But that is the EMER repair standard colour and not necessarily the manufacurrers colour when new.
Would anyone like to hazard a guess as to what the 'new' colour would have been for a 1939 BSA made tripod? I believe it was sourced from Australia and it's currently an olive green sort of colour. (Deep bronze green?)
Take some colour scrapings/samples and goto your local Johnstons paint people. They'll give you the address of PPG in West Yorkshire who will do an optical scan to give you and exact colour match. Did it for my brothers Bedford QL
My 39 Tripod was several shades of Earth Brown and some DBG or MBG so I refinished it in DBG whether it's correct or not it's 100% better than it was.
From the number I have seen or owned, the original BSA and early production Canadian CCM Mk I tripods were in Deep Bronze Green. The later Canadian examples were the same matt OD that was common to North American military vehicles of the period (and the Canadian Bren mag boxes).
Those CCM tripods are rare as hens teeth over here, I've had an eye out for one for years, just like the L4A1s and the 7.92 guns.
Jeez, I had a pile of CCM and BSA Mk.1 tripods purchased in Canada and imported in the early 2000's to the USA. They were all original, complete with the AA leg and with New Zealand ownership marks. I couldn't give them away. Then when a few different places started building the semi-auto guns, they started to sell and if I carried a couple to a show someplace, they'd both be sold in minutes! I kept one CCM Mk.1 for a Mk.1M I want to build some day and a CCM Mk.2, (the only Mk.2 in the lot), that's Canadian ownership marked and fit perfectly with my post sample Inglis Mk.2 gun. I bought them for $100 each and as the demand went up so did the price. I sold the last ones for $450 each. I recently imported a nice one from Militaria Auctions in New Zealand for a client and he paid $1500 at auction plus the cost of importation for it. Amazing how times change.
Most British military Army RAF and Navy paint colours derive from the BS 381C code, so if you want to paint a Spitfire in the correct original WW2 colours etc or a tank or even ordnance shells and bombs, the colours are all there under this code. So a WW 2 2" mortar smoke round will be painted in a light Brunswick green BS 381C 225. A desert camouflage vehicle paint for a tank would be light stone BS 381C 361.
At this stage there aren't any Bren guns in the next auction over the 3rd and 4th May 2014, but there is a lovely as-new 1944 Lithgow Mk. 1 Vickers MMG in the auction, unfortunately the Tripod isn't in the same condition but it dose come with both transit chests (Gun and Tripod). I'll just have to make another couple of Bren Gun Tripods :super:Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Dick