Which Dark Yellow is the best for German WWII Armor?

Never get stuck on finding "perfect shade"s of paint straight from the bottle. Especially German Dark Yellow. Mix white into it and experiment with different colors--gray, tan, Buff, etc--and just "eyeball" it. As has been correctly stated, weathering wil change eveyrthing significantly, so learn to work the color with your weathering technique. My DY tanks always start out as nearly a whitish shade of yellow, which then gets brought into "corect" tone with weathering and shadings filters.  I don't think any two of my German tanks has the same shade of DY on them.

Chris and Phil,

Thanks for your advice! I'll try it.

Bill

I hate Vallejo Dark Yellow because it has way too much green in it.  My favorite is 50% of Tamiya Dark Yellow + 50% of Tamiya Deck Tan.  Initially, the mix looks light but after weathering and a matte varnish, the end result looks just right.

Vallejo's Dark Yellow is even darker/browner than Tamiya's.

If you prefer to work with Tamiya, my favourite mix for Dark Yellow is one part Dark Yallow (XF 60) to one part Deck Tan (XF 55)

Mike and Eric,

Thanks for the advice!  I will try Vallejo paints.  And, I am starting to get back into armor modeling.

Bill

The Vallejo sets are brilliant and easy to use. You will love them.

But weathering changes everything so don't be surprised.  :)

I love Tamiya's paints. I have lightened with light grey and white before. Weathering changes everything, so just be sure to use something to lighten the paint first.

I have always used Tamiya lightened with buff to adjust for filtering and weathering.If you want something different Vallejo makes modulation sets including one of German Dark Yellow.