Afrika Korps color on AFV (1 Viewer)

chemiebay

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I have always wondered why toy soldiers companies paint their product in yellow color.
Most vehicles were painted using a RAL 8000/RAL 7008 colors combination, the fact that this camo was invisible on B/W pics is becase both colors have almost the same tone, so there is no contrast between them. If we add desert dust and sand...the response is that those old AFV certainly look like were painted only in one color.
Here some examples using that color combination, these tanks are not finished at all in fact they have just been painted, and certainly show that main color was brown and not yellow and that the original camouflage color was very hard to see.

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The early German camouflage during the Blitzkrieg was Panzergrau and Schokolade Brun. As you stated Chemiebay the B&W photos of the era failed to show the color difference due to low contrast between the colors. OKW orders are the main source of this info as many postwar written sources assumed an overall Panzergrau; which was not used until after the campaigns in Poland and France.
 

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