Pafetikbazerkas foray into 15mm Flames of War

Researching german field grey almost sent me grey – green colour blind.

When I primed these guys I used black with a grey over the top to give a lose zenith. Upon digging a little afterwards I learnt a couple of things.
1. German field grey is a bit green. In fact some sources will appear more green than grey whilst many other sources will show almost no discernable green at all.
2. Finding images of actual near mint uniforms is only slightly more helpfull. But sometimes lead to GFG looking almost black geen in some lighting conditions. Whilst images of uniforms in natural out door settings looking much lighter.
3. My only local source of vallego paints had no german field grey in stock but was clearing out all his paint and modeling stock wich meant some awsome deals and gathering up plenty of other greens and greys. I hear it said that vallego GFG is a 1-1 match for the real deal but at this scale I need to mix to lighten off anyway.
4. Some veterans might still be wearing cooler grey pants in late war
So if I had to start again I would have worked a bit harder on getting the grey right and done 90% of work through the airbrush but what I’ve done is too dark and too cold and I have to fix it with what I’ve got.

In the end I mixed 50-50 german panzer grey with greman green then added a dab of zandri dust to lighten. A thin layer on the exposed areas seemed to correct the colour and acentuated the contrast a bit. I left a few pants grey to represent vetrans and lighten the load on my eyes. (15mm is a bit of work). Some of the men do sway a little to green or grey but when mixed into squads its difficult to tell.