Hi, good question. Yes I use vallejo, but you have to thin it, you can hand paint it also.

Snapdragonxx did an arctile a while back on the forum that compairs the vallejo paints to give a good match.

http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/2/t/138929.aspx

Hope this helps.

I've spent enough time on actual tanks and have painted the real thing to know that the color is effected over time and even different batches of paint seem to have different shades to it. Back in the day, we'd mix half full cans of paint to make the color last. Always seemed to run low on the field brown.

I tend to eyeball colors. Close enough is close enough for me.

Rob Gronovius

I've spent enough time on actual tanks and have painted the real thing to know that the color is effected over time and even different batches of paint seem to have different shades to it. Back in the day, we'd mix half full cans of paint to make the color last. Always seemed to run low on the field brown.

I tend to eyeball colors. Close enough is close enough for me.

 

Yes, thats true enough. Looking around for info on german camo one sight showed a sdkfz.250 with, I think 6 types of dunkelgelb (tan-yellow?) so any color as long as its closer to tanish-yellow, red brown, and mid to dark green would work.

Most every model paint company make the German WWII vehicle colors in their paint lines, enamel and acrylic, and have them named/labeled as such. (Humbrol discontinued their Dark Yellow, but their Ocre is real close) Even Vallejo does. If you go to their website, you can see which colors they have for the three color camo. And seriously, Tamiya paints are less expensive than Vallejo, so you’re not getting a better deal costwise. Does a shop near you stock Vallejo but not Tamiya? Shipping is the only way you’ll save money.

Both the Vallejo and Tamiya are really good quality paint.

And I wouldn't worry about the price too much, it's sorta an investment. After all you'll probably get 2-3 kits out of the bottle of mustard yellow but the brown and green camo colours should be enough for 7-10 models or more. Assuming you don't do like me and paint a model, then don't do anything else in the same scheme so the paint ends up sitting around for a year or more and dries up in the bottle...

Yeah. I have that problem with some of my paints, but I also have some 45 year-old Humbrol that still works for me, barely!

I also equally like Model Master and Vallejo with some Tamiya thrown in the mix. It all depends on the shades of the different colors I need.

The bigger bottles of Dark Yellow like the large Tamiya or Mission Models will see you thru many German vehicles, especially if you airbrush. Of course that depends upon the size of the vehicles. You can paint far more Kubelwagens than Maus with one bottle of paint...

stikpusher

The bigger bottles of Dark Yellow like the large Tamiya or Mission Models will see you thru many German vehicles, especially if you airbrush. Of course that depends upon the size of the vehicles. You can paint far more Kubelwagens than Maus with one bottle of paint...

 

How mission model paints? I've heard good news about them.

I really like Mission Models paints so far. They air brush and hand brush well. And they have great and still expanding color selection line. I certainly can recommend them for use.

Jagdpanther.

I would use Vallejo model air.

Now be cdareful with the base coat of Dunkelgelb. It is NOT as people think, a dark yellow colour it is actually a beige colour which changed through out the war and I do believe that Vallejo is working on the real colours to be introduced into their range.

As a good and close alternative for the RAL 7028 base coat I have used 71.272 RAL8000 which is an Afrika Korps colour.

The other two colours are: 71.092 RAL6003 and 71.041 RAL8017.

Here's the result from the 12 days of Christmas build on Trumpeter's Pak 44

Mission Models makes two different versions of Dunkelgelb, the original 1943 version, and a more beige late 1944 version.

https://www.missionmodelsus.com/collections/german-armor-wwii

I find Mission Models paints much easier to work with compared to Vallejo, mostly because of the packaging. The flip top dropper lid can be screwed off to permit stirring. They actually recommend in their instructions that their paints are to be shaken and stirred to insure complete mixing.