discussion Need help with WW2 British Tank Crew uniform colour

[Mr Bowcat]

Morning guys.

I'm in a quandary, I'm building the Tamiya Achilles (which technically is artillery) which comes with a very nice set of figures. The instructions call out for XF-60 Dark Yellow for the uniforms.


However, looking at the Tamiya web page for this kit, the picture of the figures shows a more greener colour.



I did a search for British Tank crew (I'm assuming the artillery wore the same colour uniforms??) and came up with a Panzer Aces colour which on their website looks like this.



However, when looking to buy this the colour swatch shown looks like this.



Which is obviously much browner.

So now I don't know what to do. I have a good selection of Tamiya paints so ideally would prefer to mix something myself. However I'm not very good at doing this by eye, so a formula for the right colour would be much appreciated, failing which an idea on what off the shelf paint would be close enough.

Any advice gratefully received.

Cheers,

B

 

[Jack L]

I have always gone for a Khaki Drab for British Uniforms (XF-51 in Tamya), although I am sure someone will say that is incorrect. I have never been too bothered by accuracy, just what looked right to me.

https://www.google.com/search?q=kha.....69i57j0l7.3510j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers Jack.

I have XF-51 so that would be an easy option. Like you I'm not obsessed with perfect colour matches, but the Dark Yellow just didn't seem right.

 

[Windy]

Morning guys.

I'm in a quandary, I'm building the Tamiya Achilles (which technically is artillery) which comes with a very nice set of figures. The instructions call out for XF-60 Dark Yellow for the uniforms.


However, looking at the Tamiya web page for this kit, the picture of the figures shows a more greener colour.



I did a search for British Tank crew (I'm assuming the artillery wore the same colour uniforms??) and came up with a Panzer Aces colour which on their website looks like this.



However, when looking to buy this the colour swatch shown looks like this.



Which is obviously much browner.

So now I don't know what to do. I have a good selection of Tamiya paints so ideally would prefer to mix something myself. However I'm not very good at doing this by eye, so a formula for the right colour would be much appreciated, failing which an idea on what off the shelf paint would be close enough.

Any advice gratefully received.

Cheers,

B

It looks like they're wearing the lightweight denim tank suit, not battledress, so a pale greenish grey or tan would be correct. Possibly Vallejo Russian Uniform. They were issued to all AFV crewmen from summer 1944 on.

Here are a couple of pics, an original one and a reproduction:

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[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers Alex.

You are right, they do look like one piece overalls, so maybe the XF-51 with some buff added would look right.

 

[Guest]

The one with the leather waistcoat is wearing battledress, I think, going by that he only has one front leg pocket on his trousers. Could just be they didn’t want to try moulding it at such an awkward angle, though.

 

[Guest]

You may find something here.

https://www.cybermodeler.com/uniform/uniform.shtml