Don't worry mate the darker blue is still there it's just hiding under 30 years of neglect

under that is red and under the red is yellow and hiding under all of that is the original Khaki no.3
She might be ancient at 73 but it's still surprising me every day, externally it looks terrible but the mechanicals are in fine working order, it's just unfortunate that the air cleaner has disappeared and no one thought to cover the carby water has been able to enter a couple cylinders and cause pitting but it's nothing a machinist can't fix however you probably can't blame them she'd been resigned to a rusty grave when I found it.
Eugh I had the nightmare of trying to turn the bugger 90 degrees in my yard and roll it in to the shed, they don't like to move on flat hard ground with a bloke pushing on it, little wonder it took 20 to extract one from mud! They are a deceptively heavy machine.
I'll get a proper project post up over the weekend, quite a bit has happened since the above photo they're so basic work on them is a breeze it's just having the time & connections to chase down the missing parts.