Re: camo paint. O/T


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Posted by Sherman in Idaho [24.32.202.166] on Sunday, June 23, 2013 at 10:06:47 :

In Reply to: camo paint. O/T posted by junkyardog [72.64.2.206] on Sunday, June 23, 2013 at 07:44:17 :

Most of the trucks with army camo paint jobs came from the factory with OD semi-gloss and were repainted with CARC camo (forest camo during the cold war, desert camo in the gulf war) without any prep other than washing them. The CARC is all coming off in big chips now. The desert jobs seem to be the worst of the two. I try to keep camo paint on two of my M35s, but it's just a matter of scraping off the loose stuff and repainting those patches every few years.

If you've got CARC and it's coming off, you're going to have to scrape it all off eventually. It's very hard to find real CARC any more. Of the two common choices, I like Aervoe better than Gillespie because Gillespie is polyurethane which will jell up in the can once you've opened it, if you don't use it all right away, whereas Aervoe is a traditional alkyd enamel. You can get it in gallons or rattle cans and it's not horribly expensive. You can also have a good auto/industrial paint supplier mix you up custom colors in alkyd, which is easy to apply. They usually call it "tractor paint". The biggest problem I've had with trying to replicate any CARC camo is getting if flat enough. The usual flatting agent, talc, isn't flat enough. I ended up using diatomaceous earth, which was recommended for severe flatness, but it made scratches show up very easily. Another problem is the modern "non-toxic" paints have pigments that fade more than the "toxic" pigments in CARC. this is particularly obvious with the dark green. I'm sure CARC uses a chrome pigment for the green, and it stays dark, whereas all the modern stuff I've tried of similar color (rustoleum, aervoe, and krylon) all get lighter and more bluish with time. Even the non-CARC flat blacks get more gray with time. Remember you can't put a UV-resistant clear coat over it if you want it to stay flat.

It really doesn't seem like there's any off-the-shelf civilian paint that is a decent replacement for CARC, especially in forest camo colors. I'm afraid the choice is either strip off the camo and be satisfied with OD semi-gloss, which you can do fine with civilian paint, or keep patching the CARC camo job using various unsatisfactory substitutes.



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