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World War 1 Uniforms
Posted by PANZER826 on Thursday, July 9, 2015 6:04 PM

     I got a set of 1:35 Tamiya World War 1 British infantry soldiers.  Any ideas on what color to use for the uniforms?  The box instructions say to use khaki but that just doesn't look right.  Checked around the internet but didn't get any good answers.  Some suggested Vallejo English Uniform but that colors looks to dark.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

  Thanks

Mike

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Posted by stikpusher on Thursday, July 9, 2015 6:59 PM

Try Humbrol or Gunze Khaki if you think Vallejo English Uniform is too dark.

 

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Posted by CapnMac82 on Saturday, July 11, 2015 1:08 AM

Brit uniform colors are often described as Khaki Drill,a tan color with a hint of green.  And Khaki Drab, a brown olive that is dark in hue.  

The shirts worn under the coats were a pale, chambray blue

The Brits also had jodhpur trousers in a buckskin color, which is hard to describe.

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Posted by Poilu on Friday, August 7, 2015 7:30 AM

Can't help you with the specific paints to render the colors, but I can offer to provide some color photos for references if you'd like.  This is my first post to FSM so I'm not clear how to post the photos online.  If you want I could e-mail them to you. 

Some suggestions - You may want to consider what year of the war you want to portray.  I don't believe uniform color specs changed, but I could be wrong.  Issue uniform color varied from supplier to supplier, from year to year.  And sun and weather bleaching lightened the color a great deal.  The uniform makers were using vegetable based dies, not chemical, so uniforms were not color-fast and the makers couldn't always control color from lot to lot.  Anyways probably more than you wanted to know.

All the best,

Dan

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