painting question.

this weekend, i'm prepping my ambulance so that it will be ready for a coat of paint. sod the £500-£2000 quotes i've got so far, i'm doing the bronze green myself with a radiator roller and paint brushes. the question is, with the black camouflage paint, what paint do i use? someone told me they did their landy with a large tin of B&Q blackboard paint? any suggestions anyone please?????

When I was stationed in Germany in the late 70's there was a shortage of Matt Black in BAOR, so several of our vehicles were painted with gloss black doctored with Foot & Body powder (odourless talc). Looked great in day light, follow at night and it shone like silver in headlights!

You say you're doing BRONZE green? Don't you mean olive drab if it's getting a mil paint job? Bronze greens the civi colour that's shiny and nice.

Davec said:

When I was stationed in Germany in the late 70's there was a shortage of Matt Black in BAOR, so several of our vehicles were painted with gloss black doctored with Foot & Body powder (odourless talc). Looked great in day light, follow at night and it shone like silver in headlights!

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Wow that sounds cool...but dont think it was too good on a mil. vehicle?!?!

jmattley said:

You say you're doing BRONZE green? Don't you mean olive drab if it's getting a mil paint job? Bronze greens the civi colour that's shiny and nice.

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it's actually matt nato green. it's a 1967 landy and i'm right in thinking they weren't painted olive drab back then. i'm sure i will be corrected.

In 1967 it was probably painted in gloss green, I'm not sure what the colour was called, may well have been Bronze Green (that was why Rover changed from light to dark green in the 40s, to save having to paint military orders in a different colour) without black patches. It may have been repainted matt during the 70s, but if it spent most of it's time in store it may never have been repainted.

Ask these people --> Ex-Military Land Rover Association :: Index

FFS Heidi said:

Ask these people --> Ex-Military Land Rover Association :: Index

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thanks for that, i'm already a paid up member of EMLRA and i'm getting some really good advice off of them.

i took some pics and wondered if someone could tell me the colour because that what the ambulance was originally painted. someone told me its deep bronze green someone else told me it's olive drab????????

Always hard to tell from a photo, but that looks closer to bronze green that it does to olive. Take a small panel down to your local paint suppliers and ask them to match it (or the whole LR if it's easier).