Greenhills Tamiya 10ml Bottle of Acrylic Paint – Dark Green 2 (RAF) XF-81 – C531 Log in for wholesale price I'm well aware of color-shift, fading, yellowing, and a whole host of other issues effecting old photos, I'm as much into photography as I am into this hobby. It is difficult to interpret much of anything color-wise from these old photos, but I think we need to keep an open mind about what colors were actually used, particularly near the end of the war. Mixed paint, substitutions, poor solvents, weathering, fading, yadda yadda...it all adds up to one big mess. 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 – Dark Sea Grey XF-54 – C598 Log in for wholesale price

Several model companies now make "authentic" World War I paint colors and paint sets. I have an AK Interactive World War I French set, although, in the end, I just mixed some Tamiya paints to match the AK paints since I like to use Tamiya paints. When I built my Roden Holt Tractor kit, I used Mission Models US Khaki Drab as a base and weathered it with washes of brown, earth and dust colors. It looks fine to me and suitably "WW1" and "Allied/American" without being in WW2 US Olive Drab, which I did not want to use. 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. 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.

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Changing colours against the same colour code is a recipe for disaster and is the very antithesis of the whole principle of paint colour codification. So I very much doubt that it happened. Especially with the Germanic virtual obsession with detail, accuracy and precision. With all respect to Mr Byrden, I suspect he is confusing the name change with a colour change and he means that for WW2 we should use the WW2 names and not the current ones. 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. Here goes. These are taken from a Word document that I hand out when I give a PowerPoint presentation of Japanese Naval Aircraft colors.

A comment from Gary Kwan concerning the late war camo scheme on PzIV and Jagdtigers build at Nibelungenwerk;

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Bear in mind that all of these mixes were matched to extant artifacts. Have they changed in 70 years? Yes, but they are from protected areas or were souvenired and stored away from direct light since the war. In service, all coatings weather rapidly. I am providing you with a starting point. If you don't like the appearance of a mix, modify it until it suits you. After all, you are building the model to please yourself. 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. Greenhills Tamiya 10ml Bottle of Acrylic Paint – Clear Orange X-26 – C556 Log in for wholesale price Greenhills Tamiya 10ml Bottle of Acrylic Paint – Dark Grey XF-24 81724 – C576 Log in for wholesale price

I hope this helps and it's my own experience that I hint about, just don't get too hung up over it. Tamiya Acrylic Paints are made from water-soluble acrylic resins and are excellent for either brush or spray painting. Objects in this photo show far greater color resolution to be colorized, IMHO. I have several different BW images of this Jagdtiger, I have never seen this photo as a BW image, from which someone would have used to colorize into this image. Greenhills Tamiya 10ml Bottle of Acrylic Paint – Field Grey XF-65 – C557 Log in for wholesale priceAs for SCCNo2 Mike Starmer is credited for researching and publishing the authentic shade using Tamiya paint mixes The beauty of RAL is that the colours have not changed one bit since inception. Ever. So a can of 8000 today is the same as a can of 8000 in 1942. However, some of the names have changed - which can be very misleading. 8000 was GelbBraun but is now GrunBraun. 7008 was GrauGrun but is now KhakiGrau. 8020 has remained Braun and 7027 has remained Grau. Greenhills Tamiya 10ml Bottle of Acrylic Paint – Dark Green 2 XF-89 – C536 Log in for wholesale price Greenhills Tamiya 10ml Bottle of Acrylic Paint – Flat Clear XF-86 81786 – C587 Log in for wholesale price

The 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. Brush-applied yellowish-khaki coat over natural metal on Type 99 Val shot down in Middle Loch, Pearl Harbor. Tail code AII-251.Greenhills Tamiya 10ml Bottle of Acrylic Paint – Flat Flesh XF-15 81715 – C581 Log in for wholesale price Greenhills Tamiya 10ml Bottle of Acrylic Paint – Flat Aluminium XF-16 81716 – C585 Log in for wholesale price 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: Both The Vallejo Model Air colours at 6 & 7 ( German Green and Russian Green) are acceptably close. Greenhills Tamiya 10ml Bottle of Acrylic Paint – Flat Yellow XF-3 81703 – C5102 Log in for wholesale price