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VERY CLASSY, is that Pearl Essence???

That looks down right purty!

Nice job.

I agree that color choice is yours and what makes you feel good is what you should do.

I have some special restorations that are in my mind that I still have to do and as a tribute to my late father, my daughter who also served, and a son presently serving, I am going do some machines in a variety of military camouflage patterns used for battledress through the years.

There are numerous variants, far more than most folks know but I will be doing a Vietnam jungle, a Desert Storm sand, and a Blue Woodland before they all coalesce back into a joint combat uniform that the House Armed Services Committee is mandating.

I still haven’t decided on the patterns (there really are a number of them) but I am committed to doing three Mark V units in camo. The three below are where my thoughts are today.

My thoughts at present are to camo only the base and legs and do a Greenie and Goldie Headstock tribute repaint, with a midrange blue on the Blue Woodland.

It will be a good bit of work, but I am compelled to do something along those lines. I may use the Tigerstripe Lizard pattern on the green. Not sure.

Everett

It is white almond and hunter green

I think it will be a good looking machine. Id like to se them when done. I have another early 80's machine that I am going to do in the next month or so. I am going to do the same white with a brown or tan color. That way I can do my bandsaw jigsaw and jointer in the white almond color and they will match on both but still let me change it up some between the two.

Great job on the restoration and the color combination works great! Fine job!

But back to the original question. What color to match closely the original colors (plural -2 colors) on a Greenie, I am looking at a 1957 SS in a day or two, it originally belonged to a friends father, when I sold my friend a restored 54, he sold the 57 to a friend of his. I am looking to restore it, my friend has the jointer and belt sander that originally came with this 57 SS are and my friend is offering them to me free if I buy the 57 SS from the other guy. So I want to repaint both colors to original. So what 2 colors, Verdie Hammerite, sold at a Menards and what for the lighter color? Or did I miss it in this thread?

Verde Green and silver both hammered by rustoleum are close.