As usual, we have a range of acrylic paints and accessories from the guys at AMMO this month. The first will delight some and raise the heckles of others!
Caunter British Camo
(ref. A.MIG-7181) is a six 17ml-bottle acrylic paint set designed to assist in painting the controversial – among modellers at least – Caunter camouflage scheme applied to British AFVs in the Western Desert. The scheme, devised by Colonel Caunter of the 4th Armoured Brigade. It used existing colours applied in strictly controlled ‘splinter’ patterns. The camouflage colours were BSC No. 64 Portland Stone, BSC No. 34 Light Slate, BSC No. 28 Silver Grey and, possibly, BSC No. 61 Light Stone. Some paint manufacturers have gone down the route of formulating specific colour matches to the elusive BSC standard colours, but here AMMO have taken a different tack and have included six of their existing colours to match the Caunter colours. These are Desert Sand (A.MIG-0029), Sand Yellow (A.MIG-0030), Pale Grey (A.MIG-0063) and Olive Green (A.MIG-0087).