Sorry all pressed wrong key. What it was ment to say was try & get hold of copy FSM for July 2002. There was a special pull-out section on Vallejo colors to use.
It helped me when i first used them, hope this helps.
Here’s a pretty good site for Wehrmacht uniforms:
http://www.angelfire.com/sk2/germanuniforms/wehrmacht39_42.html
and this one, though a little frantic graphically, has uniforms from MANY services, with some nice hieratic color guides:
http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-uniforms/germany.htm
Good luck with your figures!
Bart Brown
Regarding “Accurate” colours for Greman Uniforms. Do your resaerch guys!
Check out any of the Osprey Men at Arms titles and Brian Davis’ Uniforms of The German Army.
You’ll find that “almost” any Gery Green will suffice,and or Stone Gery ( some late war German uniforms had a brownish hue to them!). As I’m sure most of you know uniform manufacturers and the fabrics they used vary and you can get different hues from the various sources. Take Levi jeans for example. Do they ever fade the same? There are a myriad of factors to consider so look around, check militaria displays and the books above, find a colour that looks "accurate " to you and go from there. Don’t forget your own shadeing, washes and higlights will effect your basic colours.
Don’t be intimidated by “International” club rules or contests…[:D]
Might I suggest these articles from Missing-Lynx to help with the paiting. they have amny good, interesting, and helpful articles on figures at the site.
http://www.missing-lynx.com/articles/figures/mbcamo.htm
http://www.missing-lynx.com/articles/figures/mboak.htm
Thanks for the links guy’s!!
I havent seen them before and these are sure helpfull!! [:D]
I’ve just been reading the info South Aussie has been submitting hey man your a genius!! I hope you dont mind if I use for my reference as well I just gotta find out where I can get the Valejo paints from as no one has them here in NZ is there anywhere online they can be ordered from?
Cheers
Tony
They are available in New Zealand, modelcrafts and hobbies in wgtn have them.
If you want to order them from overseas, check out Colorado Miniatures, they’ve got a sale on Vallejo paints. Much cheaper than what you can get them here in NZ. Gray Creager at Colorado is great to deal with, very helpful.
ShModeler sorry about the delay in getting back to you, I have had a forced break from modelling over the last couple of weeks, am back modelling now and will post more info asap.
Tony: feel free to use the info as you wish, I hope you can find a supplier as the Valejo are good paints and worth the effort if you can get them.
David Juhasz I agree with you about the different shades and variations of uniform colors, especially German WW2 uniforms. I supplied the infomation in this thread as a guide to those who wish to use it as a start to painting german uniforms using Valejo paints especially those that do not have easy access to suitable references.