Another lightweight question....Colour.

[stratie]

My lightweight came with alot of paper from the army, it says on one sheet of paper work, that it had some body work done, and the whole truck was given a coat of matt black paint.
Any one know why the army would paint it all matt black?

[stratie]

Found some more paper work, and it was once painted up in camo, then painted up in sand.
I can understand camo and sand, but why matt black?

[Discopoo]

Might be radar reflective paint ? Stealth lightweight ?

[stratie]

 :lol:
Talking of stealth, we had two B-2 Spirit Stealth Bombers buzzing about over our house last sunday.
$2 billion dollers worth of matt black flat thing's flying around while i sat in the garden with a can of stella  :D

A B-52 and two B-1's just went over my house going into land, they are that low i could get me little air gun out and bag me a bomber.

[suggs]

ask Pux, he'll probley know..

[Pete]

 Mat Black.
 Base coat for cammo.
 Pete

[Range Rover Blues]

Maybe so the DPM could be sloshed over it, either olive or sand, whichever was most appropriate.

[stratie]

That makes sense, cheers guy's  :jealous:

[hobbit]

Dont forget not all vehicles were used tactical, this may have been used on camp as a duty vehicle

Thats why you still find deep bronze green in use too

[tack43]

Are you sure the whole vehicle was painted black? Sometimes a "green" vehicle would go into ABRO to get the "black" bits sprayed on. Vehicles when new were supplied in green only and had the black put on in service. Sometimes this could take several years (or never) to get done!
Hope this helps.

[stratie]

Are you sure the whole vehicle was painted black? Sometimes a "green" vehicle would go into ABRO to get the "black" bits sprayed on. Vehicles when new were supplied in green only and had the black put on in service. Sometimes this could take several years (or never) to get done!
Hope this helps.

Yep, it was 100% black all over.
It look's like this now......dont laugh, it was my first ever camo paint job  :lol: 

[Disco Matt]

Looks good to me - freehand with a brush or did you mask and spray it?

[stratie]

Big brush and two pots of paint.
Bish bosh bish bosh and on it went  :D

[Disco Matt]

Seems to work just as well on a full size vehicle as it did when I last built a plastic kit!  :lol:

I suspect that actually trying to mask and spray camo paint would look worse than a careful brush job, getting a smooth curve is a lot easier freehand. Plus as others have said it's how the Army did it.

[stratie]

I put alot of work into it, i reckon i must of spent all of 20 minutes painting the camo job  :lol:
I was going to do it in white,black,grey camo. But i didn't know where to start?

[Onan The Barbarian]

Must've done a good job, Mate... I can't see a thing! :lol:

[stratie]

 :lol: :lol:

[sMUDge]

When we paint a vehicle (not that we do anymore) we start of with green, then add the black.  If a duty vehicle were to be one colour, it would normally be matt green 

Not sure how you ended up with a total "black" one  :-k

A brush is always best, but make sure the paint has started to solidify in the can and the brush only has 37 bristles (or less) for an authentic finish  ;)  :lol:

[stratie]

make sure the paint has started to solidify in the can and the brush only has 37 bristles (or less) for an authentic finish  ;)  :lol:

Now you tell me  :lol:
What job do you do smudge?

[sMUDge]

Army mate, driver by trade, though I rarely drive nowadays unless on "Tour"  :doh:

I've painted a few Land Rovers in my time though  ;)   :lol:

[stratie]

When we paint a vehicle (not that we do anymore)

Why dont you paint them anymore?

[pux]

Most get painted now when they come back from op's so they get sent off to a company called ABRO or some camps have spray bay's that do it for you. There is also a new style paint which let's you paint over everything then you just peel off the stuff you don't want covered and then when you want it off all together just jet wash it :shock:

[sMUDge]

What pux said  :lol:

[stratie]

I want some of that peel off paint stuff :D

[sMUDge]

I wouldn't get too excited, it's not that good & VERY expensive  :roll:

Personally a Pte & Brush are better & more cost effective  :clap:

[pux]

As smudge said it wiil peel of if you drive over 5mph :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Mareng]

Perhaps the Pte that was given a brush to paint it couldn't be bothered with the trek to the stores to get the green paint and found a pot of black in the workshop.....






Never did anything of the sort boss...honest... =; :^o

[stratie]

 :lol: :lol: you never know.

[tack43]

Perhaps the Pte that was given a brush to paint it couldn't be bothered with the trek to the stores to get the green paint and found a pot of black in the workshop.....






Never did anything of the sort boss...honest... =; :^o

Possable but that wouldn't explain the paperwork (AB562) only official stuff goes in there. And the Pte (or Dvr in those days) would have had a "beasting" and repainted properly it in his own time!

[stratie]

Been going thru the paperwork again, and the truck spent some time in NI and thats where it got it's coat of black paint.