"Painting 8th Army armored Cars in North Africa (1942)" Topic

I've found a bit of useful information on insignia and paint schemes for 8th Army tanks, but rather less for their little brothers, the armored cars!

I'm particularly interested in 1942, and I'm building a squadron using AEC I's, Daimlers, and Humber III's.

Specific questions:

Did the armored car squadrons ever use camoflage, or were they always just plain sand colored?

Did they still use the little penants on the aerials, and if so, was the system of different colors for squadrons and troops the same as for the tanks?

Did they ever use the "white-red-white" marking, or was that alwasy only for tanks, and in any case, would it still be used on armored cars (or tanks) later in 1942?

I've got the Osprey Vanguard "British Tanks in N. Africa 1940-42," which is very helpful, I'm really just wondering how much of it can be applied to armored cars!

I am away from my library, but as I recall the Brits used their camo colours on their early model armoured cars like the Marmon-Harrington, but for the cars you are talking about, I believe the most common color was exactly that, plain sand – I also think they used pennants, but do not recall what colours they were

I do not believe that armoured cars ever used the white-red-white marking, and I think it had mostly been painted over on the tanks by 1942

Mike Starmer has the 1942 standard patterns mentioned here:

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…in his booklet "Alamein and After":

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Allen

Thanks for the help guys! I'm ording a copy of Alamein and After.