German Grey Variants?

[noname]

Got a quick question. From what I understand Tamiya's German Grey is a good colour to represent early German armour. But sometimes I see people using a lighter blueish grey. Is this a completely different colour or a variant on the German Gray?

 

[Chris S]

Hi Noname ,

The Panzer Grey is actually a dark steel grey .However out in the field grey tends to weather badly and the colour does change and can fade right out to a blue grey and in extreme cases nearly light grey in areas . So there is no hard and fast rules .But if you go for factory finish ,then yes the Tamiya colour is good .
I tend to mix German grey and field blue together myself ;D

Chris.

 

[noname]

Thanks for that explanation Chris and clearing that up for me.

 

[Chris S]

No problem ;D If you look here ... http://www.scalemodeladdict.com/forum/index.php/topic,2269.0.html

Thats how my mix looks

Chris.

 

[noname]

Good Job! Yes I can see the the blue in there. I guess it is like Russian green, it takes many different forms specially considering how old the paint is.

 

[Chris S]

Yip ...Same thing It also depends on who mixed the orignal paint too as the shade could vary greatly ,but as long as its grey ...nobody can really tell you its the wrong shade :

Chris.

 

[noname]

Sounds good to me. I've heard before that different places and people mix the paint a tad different. Makes it easy for us eh? ;D