What Grey ?

[takeslousyphotos]

Ok stupid question......... As I New to German armour. Should I be using FIELD GREY or DARK BLUE GREY ? My pole blitz truck looked good to me in dark blue grey........ I just started painting the wheels on my Hanomag Field Grey and I looks odd.

[Guest]

Field grey is the green gray attributed to the green(ish) uniform colour. What you want is called Dunkelgrau RAL 7021. It tends to look blueish some take it too far and use too much blue.

[Guest]

Oh, by the way, there is no such thing as a stupid question, only a stupid answers. Stupid answers are my speciality ops:

[takeslousyphotos]

Field grey is the green gray attributed to the green(ish) uniform colour. What you want is called Dunkelgrau RAL 7021. It tends to look blueish some take it too far and use too much blue.

Thanks Graham. You are a Star. I didn't think it looked right.

[Alan 45]

Tamiya call it German grey and revell call it panzer grey , it does have a bluish hue

[Robert1968]

Alan's right and so is the Graham Dukelgrau is the correct RLM colour


The blue comes out more I find in different light


Robert

[monica]

field grey is a uniform color ,and has a lite and dark,


I use panzer grray which is a darker blue/grey by vallejo,71-056 or German grey 71-052,


very close to each other and then tint down liter with an off white or even the lite grey primer,


maybe of some help


as its been answered already,

[Robert1968]

Here's a selection of RLM greys but Dunkelgrau is the standard RLM from what rcords I can retrieve

[Guest]

Here's a selection of RLM greys but Dunkelgrau is the standard RLM from what rcords I can retrieve [ATTACH]142679[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]142680[/ATTACH]

Sorry Robert, but RLM is the acronym for the Luftwaffe Ministry. For vehicles it should be RAL. Dunklegrau RAL 46 (later renumbered RAL 7021) was the base coat.


In reality it's a very dark grey, almost black. For scale purposes we usually lighten it to the aforementioned bluish grey.

[Robert1968]

Sorry Robert, but RLM is the acronym for the Luftwaffe Ministry. For vehicles it should be RAL. Dunklegrau RAL 46 (later renumbered RAL 7021) was the base coat.
In reality it's a very dark grey, almost black. For scale purposes we usually lighten it to the aforementioned bluish grey.

I stand corrected your right I mixed up my RLM and RAL ( humbley going into the corner and sticking dunce cap on!!

[takeslousyphotos]

Thanks guys (and Monica) for all your help. I've used the same stuff I used for my Opel Blitz....... Vallejo "Dark Blue Grey" It might not be 100% but It look pretty good to me.

[papa 695]

Well at least you didn't use Mr Grey apparently there's 50 shades of that one.

[Guest]

They also do a panzer grey, but it's very dark, and I'm going to be lightening it a fair bit with filters. From what I've seen in old photos and footage, they may well have left the factory a uniform colour, but they soon had a diverse patina! One thing I think is true though, that blue is involved!

[takeslousyphotos]

Well at least you didn't use Mr Grey apparently there's 50 shades of that one.

...... and quite a lot of blue as well apparently.

[Guest]

If you didn't do armor and stuck to cars life gets easier, you can paint any car any colour you like, no one can say it's wrong, as long as you title it custom, one of the reasons I dont (or rarely )do anything war related is the painting problem, it's not just one colour, if it's Africa it will be different to Europe and of course the age of the model will be a different colour (not so much with armour but ships, as they serve over such a long time scale) ignorance is bliss and I love living in ignorance