Paint options

I am looking at a truck to buy but it needs paint, with it being a 50s modle former air force truck i would like to go back to the blue they used.

Does any one have the paint codes or color for this blue?

Thank you
Kevin

Welcome to the hobby. And if you don't get the codes, just take a "part" that represents the color to a paint match supplier.

From what i have seen, only blue that is left on the truck it on the rockwells.....

FS 25045 is your Strata Blue color.

Rapco makes a premixed, correct shade Strata Blue in an Alkyd enamel. It's a simple, single stage paint, just thin it and shoot it. Everything about it is good for the most part: cheap, easy to shoot, very correct color, covers really well (it's a thick paint with heavy solids), etc.

The biggest downside is that lie all Rapco/Gillespie paint, it just doesn't like being left out in the sun. If you can keep it in a carport or garage, it will last forever. It's not a catalyzed paint, so it doesn't harden and bond the way a 2 stage paint does.

Ord9 makes super high quality paints (they've now sold out to Midwest Military) but they aren't doing Strata Blue. Wish they would.

http://www.tm9ordnance.com/products.htm

You can also take the # NDT gave in the post above and have a local paint shop mix up paint.

Here's my buddy's USAF Dodge W200 I painted 2 years ago with Gillespie Strata Blue:




And here are some Strata Blue deuces and all these pictures are out of order because this site can't manage images at all.

Rapco is good paint. It's favorite of many members of the site.