This is really a loaded topic....It is really difficult to know who to believe when it comes to German paint schemes. Jentz and Doyle state on the Missing lynx "Panzer Facts" page that there was only one Dunkelgelb. Yet I can show you someone else's color chart that shows at least 4! All with fancy names and everything! So who is right? Jentz and Doyle say there is no RAL number for Dunkelgelb, yet others don't seem to have any problem finding one, (or is it "assigning" one to it?) And no one can seem to agree just exactly what "Panzer Yellow" is supposed to look like. "Well, I like so and so's paint." "Oh ya, well I think it is too green!....too dark..too light........I have seen it stated in many different books that there were no late war German tanks painted in Panzer Gray, yet I have wartime color photos of such. Look at the Panzer IV on the right of this photo, taken at Aberdeen shortly after the war;
The Panzer IV is at least a Ausf G, possibly later, since the side vision port has been deleted. It has Zimmerit and schurtzen, yet it is most certainly painted dark gray. No proof of late war Panzer Gray? Let alone poor old Jagdtiger 331 sitting here. This is his original paint, yet I can show you numerous photos of this beast in several different books, all stating different colors, or worse yet, mistaking the Aberdeen repaints for the original paint scheme!
Then there is the famous Gray Mobelwagen photo...And a gray Mobelwagen sitting in Saumur. Is it the same lone vehicle as the famous photo? Or were there several of these? Is the Saumur Mobelwagen a repaint? If so, why is it so faded?
It looks like a repaint to me, but why all the red oxide primer scratches on the bow plate, like the paint was scraped off by the spare tracks? Why would they arbitrarily repaint gray if there was not so painted in the first place?
Who do you believe? What do you believe? Why do we believe what we do?