As for SCCNo2 Mike Starmer is credited for researching and publishing the authentic shade using Tamiya paint mixes I hope this helps and it's my own experience that I hint about, just don't get too hung up over it.

While a great deal of research as gone into matching the colours used during the War, in my opinion, it is difficult to reproduce the exact look and feel of the Wartime finish because of our modern synthetic eco-friendly paints. It amazes me how thin and matt the cover was on German wartime vehicles using paints that are considered poisonous by today’s standards." Greenhills Tamiya 10ml Bottle of Acrylic Paint – Clear Yellow X-24 – C544 Log in for wholesale priceThe other shades provide useful altenatives for different vehicles and I'll use to represent differential wear and fading etc. It's just useful to have a colour reference and being as lazy as I am _ I prefr using the Vallejo or Mig Ammo dropper bottles.

When I go with Tamiya Field Grey TS-78 and Vallejo Gunship Green 70.895 (which seem to be in good balance) I can not use TS-78 for the helmet as well. So I would use my custom mix (Vallejo German Uniform 70.920, Vallejo Gunship Green 70.895 and Vallejo White 70.951). But I think that that it would be too bright in comparison to the Tamiya Field Grey. When I don't mix the colors and use Vallejo German Uniform 70.920 only it looks almost as dark as the Armor and it doesn't look green at all but more like dark grey. So that's the reason why I brightened it up. I think my problem with Tamiya paints is that, like old Hunbrol and Airfix paints, they are actually fairly generic rather than specific matches. Compared to other paint manufacturers their range is very small at less than 100.The paint covers well, flows smoothly with no blushing or fading, and can be blended easily. Each bottle of the Tamiya Acrylic Paint Mini Series contains 10ml of paint. Well it would certainly be useful if Tamiya followed other manufacturers and quoted the RAL or RLM colours their paints are intended to match. And indeed FS, BS and other codification standards. Originally 8000 with disruptive pattern of one-third coverage of 7008, changed to 8020 with 7027 in March 42 but not required to be immediately implemented for repainting. You can see from the swatch below that the contrast between 8000 and 7008 is not great. Bovington's Tiger 131 is painted in the authentic 8000/7008 scheme and from a few yards the difference is hardly visible. Hi, this is a post I've saved for years and is by Greg Springer on color matches. Take it for what it's worth: Still working on exactly what I want to do with my MLRS. I think I'll go with the camo pattern as depicted in this photo. OK, now remember folks, don't shoot the messenger, I'm only relaying the info here, not the charter member of the cult.

Greenhills Tamiya 10ml Bottle of Acrylic Paint – Flat Brown XF-10 – C564 Log in for wholesale price Modifications were authorised for the winter of 1944/45, the period that the Hummel was assembled. White was introduced and the amount of dark green reduced and confined to lower areas. At some assembly plants the dark green was eliminated altogether. Tamiya Acrylic Paints are made from water-soluble acrylic resins and are excellent for either brush or spray painting. Another point is that kit that has come from a base workshops after a major overhaul and repaint had a slightly different hue of green that didn't quite match the painting we did at unit level, this is due to it being done in a professional paint shop and being applied with better quality spray guns and being dried in a constant temp. We could never match this at unit level. As for the 2nd edition of the the 3-colour scheme colours I can only assume that they are intended to be better matches. The pot lids look about right.Starting from late Dec 1944, both PZ IV and Jagdtiger were also using RAL8017 Rotbraun as the base color over the vehicles first and then applied RAL7028 Dunkelgelb and RAL6003 Olivgrun. Early Nakajima Zeros have their landing gear bays in aotake. The doors are the underside color except for the interior surface of the central 'butterfly' doors that are coated in aotake. Mixes matched to the overall metal surfaces of the Nakajima-built Zero shot down on Midway Island, June 4, 1942. This color would be found on all metal surfaces of the airframe, except the cowling. This color also found on some Vals at Pearl Harbor.