German panzer Field Grey - what brand and paint code?

[JR]

I'm confused, ....….........….and can see why I like Russian armour 4B0
John.

[Gern]

Dave,
I'm afraid you have been barking up the wrong tree, due to the Trumpeter instructions being incorrect!. They do call for 'Field Grey', when they should be calling out 'Panzer Grey' - the std. base colour for all German tanks until the introduction of 'dark yellow'.
Field grey was the term applied to the uniforms worn by the Wehrmacht. Panzer Grey is a very common colour offered by all the paint makers. - I use Vallejo 71.056 Panzer Dark Grey, which is a good base for modulation!
Dave

Oh poop! Or should it be 'Woof woof!' That's what I said in my first post! It's Rick's build not mine, but thanks for the heads up.

Never mind. It's been instructive to find the huge variations in colour that are supposed to be 'equivalent' between Tamiya and VMA. Even their printed colour charts are different to their online ones in places, so at least I know now to compare the actual paints rather than rely on the charts.

Judging from the picture of the colour variation between uniforms, I guess I'm safe in saying that just about any of the colours we've been looking at would be OK?