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12-27-2013 06:59 PM
# ADS
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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.
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Deep bronze green. Same as the magazine box. But that is the EMER repair standard colour and not necessarily the manufacurrers colour when new.
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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?)
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night;
God said "Let Newton be!" and all was light.
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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
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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.
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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).
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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.
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Advisory Panel
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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.
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