[Milsurplus] olive drab piant

[Bruce Gentry]

I have had some success with mixing up my own from standard Rust Oleum  
brand colors. Other brands of similar paint may work as well. For a 
start, I  slowly added rusty metal primer to Forest Green for the basic 
hue,  orange a few drops at a time for truer hue, and then slowly added 
flat black to darken it down.  It can be made fairly close and pleasing, 
but side by side with an original you can still tell a difference. When 
I was in the service, paints with the same stock number were often very 
different,   so "home brew" paints may  be  closer to the original than 
you might expect.


    Bruce Gentry  KA2IVY

Mike Tara wrote:
> does anyone know where i can buy olive drab  paint  the same color as the r-392 
> radio it has been many years since i have used it but i think it is 24087 semi 
> gloss enamel
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