Paint

For my 1941 D4

What's on it is like a patchwork quilt, it's been brushed in parts sprayed in parts, the old muck has even been sprayed over in some places - I guess that's quicker than washing it😆 Anyway, I'm soon starting a paint job on it hopefully after the re-conned track chains arrive - but that's another story!

I'd going to do it in an industrial/commercial 2 pack from the local automotive paint place because it's cheap(ish), easy to use and dries nice and hard. I can easily specify a standard colour from the British Standard or RAL charts etc so I'm after getting to as close to the original 1941 colour as possible.

I did an old Thwaites dumper (dates back to the 60's) in an old JCB colour and it's near enough a good shade, what do you think of it? Will it be close to the Cat colour or will it be a country mile off?

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Cheers Julian.

Hey Julian, How come you didn't panel beat that little dumper before you painted her, now you can see all the dings and dents in the side.😆😆😆

When it comes to colour I think it's your call, I remember seeing Bob Stewart paint a Cat pink which I think was related to Breast Cancer Awareness, or fund raising.

regards
Mike

I guess that any sort of yellow paint, within reason, would make for a nice looking tractor. What I'd like is to get it close to the original Cat color, partly because I like doing things that way and partly because it will stop all those 'rivet counters' at shows having a grumble!

I just wondered if there was an 'official' color to use? A lot of British machinery of that era is easy enough because they tended to use British standard colors like this Mid Brunswick Green on a Marshall tractor of mine:

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Julian