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| Subject: | Re: Afrika Korp Uniforms |  |
| Date: | Nov 8, 2006 |
| From: | Jerry Plettenberg | |
Hello Dan,
There is -as far as I know- not a single color named Afrika Korps Uniform, you will have to mix your own.
Which is not a bad thing at all, bearing in mind that clothing faded at a rather high rate under the harsh desert conditions. If you take a good look at black and white pics of DAK uniforms you will quickly see that you seldomly see a 'uniform' color.
I personally use Vallejo acrylics for figure painting, diluted with tap water.
There were two distinct types of uniforms, one being the more often seen sand color, the other (earlier type, I think but not sure) was a kind of light faded olive drab tint.
For the olive drab color I use a mix of Vallejo 819/888/978 and for the sand colored uniforms a mix of 819/872/914.
I vary the percentage of each of those abovementioned colors to get that non-uniform look.
Vallejo's own site has a list called "Equivalencies" where you can find the equivalent Tamiya Acrylics numbers, should you prefer to use Tam's.
http://www.acrylicosvallejo.com/
H.T.H. and Happy Modelling
Jerry |
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