It's a tricky beast, is M1942 uniform. Basically, only worn by the US Paras around D-Day, and its not the same colour as just about any other uniform. Certainly, it's not one of those colours that some nice lot like Army Painter or PSC or Warlord make a spray primer for, and if you check out the various online painting guides, everyone seems to umm and arr and mix up something: Battlefront reckon 80/20 Middlestone/US Dark Green, Tom Weiss uses some unspecified mix of US Field Drab and Green Ochre, Artizan go for German Camo Beige or a 'darker' Middlestone. There's a Tamiya spray (AS-15) which is close but not perfect, and hard to come by.
Look what I just found :D
Using the Mac's DigitalColor Meter app, it's pretty close when compared to a range of pictures, around about 125/105/65 R/G/B. If anything it's a smidge dark, but in terms of shade it's the closest I've yet found.
WAB, WECW, Dux Britanniarum, IABSM3 and many other wargames rules, mostly in 28 and 15mm.
Saturday, 7 March 2015
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That's a useful find Mike :)
ReplyDeleteInterested to see what you think of the results ;)
ReplyDeleteI used a mix of VMC Dark Yellow and VMC Khaki when I did mine.
ReplyDeleteGood find. I can not recall what I used, although I do remember it was a right pain to get all the colors worked out. A base spray would have come in useful.
ReplyDeleteI used Tom Weiss's recipe for mine but may give this a go for the last few
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