Model Forum / General / Models / August 2006

Do these pictures help?
http://www.detailpics.co.uk/uniformlistings.htm

Well, I don't think you have to worry about that overly much. The basic
Luftwaffe uniform color was feldblau which was a gray-blue color of
considerable variability even when new.  After a uniform had been worn
and washed a few times, the variability only increased. Anything in the
general bluish-gray range oughta be accurate for some uniform some place
some time - without even taking into account "scale effect" and the
necessary darker shading and lighter highlighting required to make
painted figures look "right".

Vallejo makes a paint they designate as "Luftwaffe uniform" but I don't
know this necessarily would be anymore accurate than something you mixed
up yourself in the general gray-blue range.

http://www.frpgames.com/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=31676

The basic uniform color was feldblau.  But, it all depends on what the
little figures are wearing.  There was a khaki tropical uniform worn in
North Africa (requistioned Heer uniforms, I suspect) and flight suits
came in various colors. Flight jackets were generally leather with all
the variability in color that leather can exhibit.

Life vests, both the inflatable and "sausage link" types tended to be a
buff color. Again, anything in that general buff color range should be
"good enough".

Cheers,