Panzer Dark Yellow

[ysi_maniac]

Taken from Armorama forum

[ysi_maniac]

You can comment about quality of manufacturers or whatever you like, but my specific question is about accuracy of shade, because I will make a mix anyway.

[Mossie]

Difficult to tell, it looks like there's only one coat over the primer & I'm no armour expert.  Going on what I've seen & read, I always thought it was a 'dirty' shade of yellow so I've voted for Vallejo.

[Taiidantomcat]

Agreed Mossie. I can really only vote on my preconceived notion of what it looks like. I use model master and it looks most like the middle one to me.

[nev]

You know what?  Who knows?

you're talking about paint manufactured in a country that was short of every strategic resource, in a factory that had been the subject of repeated bombing, by slave workers from all over Europe on the verge of dying of starvation, disease or just good old random nazi brutality.

And you're comparing it to Black & White photos.  Or colour pics with the shades out of whack.  Or 60 year old paint chips.

Personally, I voted for Tamiya, just because I love its distinctive smell which takes me back to my childhood

[Mossie]

And you're comparing it to Black & White photos.  Or colour pics with the shades out of whack.  Or 60 year old paint chips.

Nope.  Not comparing it to anything, just going with what I 'feel'!  I just 'feel' that dirty yellow would be about right, no idea how right it is & not too worried about it.

[Geoff]

Me I use either Tamia or RevD straight out of the bottle/cube thingy.

[ChernayaAkula]

I'm far from an expert on Wehrmacht matters, but as far as I know there where two (pretty different) incarnations of Dunkelgelb. IIRC, the change occurred at the end of 1943/beginning of 1944. I read an article in a German modelling magazine that research has shown there was even a third official shade, which was also noticeably different from the other two. Factor in the war times (although ze Germans were apparently still committed to fulfilling the standards), faded paint, grime, dust and general wear and tear and Nev's dead-on with "who knows".
At some point late in the war, the factory base coat was to be dark green. Camouflage was to be applied in the field. Guess it's reasonable to assume that the troops used any dark yellow they could get their hands on.

So with all that, any shade of the three pictured could be right. 

[Dork the kit slayer]

I think(only my opinion)that for the best effect . If you were to use the darker,then a spray of the intermediate and finally a light coat of the lighter.
Followed of course with dirt and stain.
Many paint manufacturers pre-lighten or base their mixes on photos of subjects with faded schemes.
Again only my thoughts others may and probably will know better.
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[Jacques Deguerre]

Strictly based on my "Mark 1 Eyeball" informed opinion, I'd have to go with the Vallejo color.

[sequoiaranger]

You may already know about this "phenomenon", but the basis is that the smaller the model, the lighter the shade should be. That is, the darker yellow might be appropriate for a 1/24 model, but a 1/72 should have the lighter shade.