I originally thought this one was black from the factory but when I pulled the data plate it was green underneath. I didn't find an exact match but this 24087 Semi-Gloss Olive Drab Primarily used on Army vehicles from 1955-57 thru Vietnam. A darker olive drab similar to 23070 but with a brownish or khaki tint. is very close to the Turner 1111 single burner I have. All that's left to do now is put the decal on the lid. I used some 7-4 and 7-5 brake shoe rivets to reattach the legs and the top. There's just no way to really strip and paint one without drilling out the rivets and separating the legs and top from the body. This one was a combination of time in the electrolysis tank and sandblaster cabinet. I didn't get good before pictures but this is what the case looked like. After
@Daryl I was not implying that the stove was for military use, only that the best color match I found was from a company who supplies parts and paint for military vehicles. I used my Turner 1111 single burner like yours as the color source for the paint match. Turner used a couple different shades of green, although that was probably a result of paint technology at the time rather than a deliberate decision. Prentiss-Wabers and AGM also used some brownish-green and khaki colors that lead people to think they're military stoves. More than once I've found older stoves in military surplus stores because they were misidentified. I've found it difficult to find matches among the readily available rattle cans of paint. Fifty years ago my primary collecting was militaria and I will admit to buying my 1111 because I thought it was a military stove. I didn't know GPAs at all at the time and it was advertised by a big militaria dealer in the Chicago area as being a military stove. Remember this is long before Internet, cell phones or even personal computers. All the ads were print and few pictures. I later learned that this dealer had a reputation for shall we say "inventive descriptions" of some of his wares. Researching the stove I soon learned that it wasn't military. That stove was my gateway drug to collecting GPAs.
