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  • Member since
    April 2005
  • From: Baton Rouge, LA
Posted by T_Terrific on Friday, July 7, 2006 10:00 AM

Welll, actually they can be a darker shade because not all field uniform equipment was issued at the same time, and you can have a soldier in a worn/faded uniform with a new helmet (hence fresher,darker paint), etc.

In fact in reality, if you study enough WWII photographs, you willl find it was SELDOM like they tend to show in the nice color illustrations where everything is like it "should" be, where you have the typically shown contradiction of seasoned crack troops that suddenly are fielded with nice all-new uniforms and equipment in the middle of an on-going majopr engagement, with not even  a spot of mud or dirt on them. Whistling [:-^]

There is a modeler who posted placed human maintenance figures for his naval aircraft on this website, who are shown man-handling the aircraft on a carrier deck with perfectly bright clean fingers! Confused [%-)]

Even when I do pilot figures, I generally seek to use different shades for the jacket vs. the pants, etc., especially for 1/32 or larger.

  Tom T Cowboy [C):-)]

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  • Member since
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  • From: west springfield,mass
Posted by rudedog on Sunday, July 2, 2006 4:16 PM
Thanks T,but I am still crious if there some truth as to hemuts being a darker shade.I'll check  site I stumbled onto.It's address Is on the leading page of Armor that I posted a couple days ago.Well,thank again, rudedog

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  • Member since
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  • From: Baton Rouge, LA
Posted by T_Terrific on Sunday, July 2, 2006 3:19 PM

I don't think so.

The color you are describing sounds like it could be the Testors color "Rubber" or an RLM color such as RLM-74 Graugrun, or Gray-Green.

These both can be got from either Testors on-line, or I just go to my LHS.

In building Tamiya's (like Revell-Germany's) aircraft kits, I find them both abysmally deficiant and unnecessarily complicated in the color call-out department, because if Tamiya doesn't make the color (like Testors does), they will lead you down a not-so-merry chase of mixing and ratioing something from their own limited line to approximate what I can easily get directly under the Testors or the Model Masters label! Confused [%-)]

Tom T Cowboy [C):-)]

 

 

Tom TCowboy

“Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.”-Henry Ford

"Except in the fundamentals, think and let think"- J. Wesley

"I am impatient with stupidity, my people have learned to live without it"-Klaatu: "The Day the Earth Stood Still"

"All my men believe in God, they are ordered to"-Adolph Hitler

  • Member since
    November 2003
  • From: west springfield,mass
German & gas mask color ???
Posted by rudedog on Sunday, July 2, 2006 2:37 PM
I've always used  the same color [ Tam# xf-63 ]  for the helmuts & gas mask tube holder ,that I use for the whole uniform ,[ when ftaigues are being used other than camo ].But while looking close on back of box,The helmet & g.m. look  noticably darker kinda like the gray,but with green added. Am I just turning color blind or just plain "losing it in general" ????any help will be appreciated.Thanks,rudedog

"...That's an order,not a debate topic , Sergeant Rudzik..."

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