German Multicolored uniform???

Airbrush;
The WW2 German uniform intially was a colour called field grey this colour could vary from a grey to a greenish grey which is similar to the tamiya colour of the same name (XF65). To add more confusion to this, the german army also used Italian material classed as steel grey and this also varied from grey to greenish grey.

So to answer your question it is fully possible historically for your Nazi to be wearing a feild grey uniform were the Jacket is one shade and is pants another.

Field Grey varied alot during WW II even more than the OD on Planes.


The reason for the colour differences is that the colour/dye was often mixed locally with whatever was available.

So if a Soldier needed to get a jacket reissued in the field there was a good chance that the coour would differ greatly as it most probly came from a differen plant.

There is no correct answer as to what is the correct Field Grey.

Not correct field grey, just the pants were a very very different really grey, kinda i guess like a light steel grey with out the shine, and the shirt was alot closer to the Tamiya XF-65.

Maybe this is similar to what you saw:



As others have stated, German uniform colors varied from factory to factory throughout the war. Uniform styles also changed during the war. Changes in fabric composition, dyes, dyeing techniques, wear and tear can all alter a uniform's appearance. Service trousers were manufactured from stone gray (Steingrau) cloth until 1940, thereafter they were cut from the basic field-gray cloth. Pre-war to early war tunics were of a grayer shade, later superseded by greener tones of field-gray. There is also the model 1940 reed-green drill uniform and model 1943 reed-green summer field service uniform which varied in color from sea-green to light gray. A good book on German uniforms is: German Army Uniforms of World War II in Color Photographs by Wade Krawczyk, published by Motorbooks International, ISBN: 0-7603-0249-9

http://www.atthefront.com/g_frames.htm

check this site out. They have alot of great information and address this very issue in some of their commentary.

Mike