German WWII Ral Colour Numbers

[mike1268]

Hi,

Seen a few posts about people not being happy with their tanks shade and colours. I noticed on a lot of paints, they quote the Ral numbers. Looking for the ral numbers for the ambush camo for my Stug III, I came across this link. It gives the Ral numbers for standard german paints through out the years of WWII (hopefully correct). It does say that shades can vary a bit because of what they diluted the paste paint with. But its a good starting point for anyone that is looking for the correct paints that hasn't got a clue, like me :p

http://www.stugiii.com/germanvehiclecamouflage.html

[AlwynTurner]

Good spot mike, this looks really useful thanks. Alwyn

[jarndice]

A helpful piece of work, thanks, I know that somewhere among my "Favourites" is a list of the approved colours but also the DATES the colours were first introduced or when they were phased out, I may look it up if anyone needs the information. shaun

[jarndice]

Found it, quite useful because on the top of the table is a menu listing the different makers paint codes to help get a close match to the real colour.
www.miniatures.de/colour-ral-farben.html
It might help those of you trying to achieve perfection. shaun

[doc larsson]

ty nice find

[mike1268]

So in my search for the correct ral codes in a aint range I came accross this company

http://www.acrylicosvallejo.com/

You can pick these up from Boyes for about £2 for 17ml. On the website they have a colour chart with the ral codes and other codes for non german shades.

Anyone used these before?

[billpe]

Vallejo make nice brush paints, water soluble unlike most of the alcohol based acrylics. The airbrush specific ones are a bit crap though and clog up the brush even when thinned.

I recently tried Ammo by Mig Jimenez and they're really nice paints both through the airbrush and used with a brush. Nice colour range as well.

[mike1268]

Cool,

Just adding the website so I can find it at a later date

http://www.migjimenez.com/en/