This colour confuses me. Is it olive drab (yellow olive) or a dark grey-green In colour pix and in real life, it's hard to pin-down,

IIRC, this color was called RAL 6014 (aka gelboliv or olivgrün) :




HTH

Frenchy

Revell of Germany have Gelb-Olive (yellowish olive) in their range. It's number 32142 from the enamel range and 36142 from the Aqua range (acrylics).

I suppose you could also mix up your own using some shade of olive green with a bit of yellow thrown in.

I picked up a 'cube' of Aqua 36142 from the LHS, broke our the Iwata & found a bottle of Vallejo Air 71013 Yellow Olive....
So a quick comparison with the Revel Aqua 36142 Yellowish Olive was in order.

Vallejo as usual sprays well, but I use their gloopy thinners, & the colour was, to my late night eye, a darker blue-greenish.

The Revel Aqua, comes in a self-sealing rip-the-top-off & use as a paint pallete lid, was fairly thick, & in my haste, I probably didn't stir well. Nontheless, I used the Vallejo thinner & sprayed away.
The colour was a bit faded-olive drab.

My Experiments here:
http://www.militarymodelling.com/albums/member_album.asp?a=8133

V 71043 Olive Drab on Sherman for comparison.
V 71013 Olive-Green & Revell Aqua 36142 Yellowish Olive on bridge

I rather like the V 71013 Olive-Green for '70's -'90's German kit, though...

Tamiya XF51 (Khaki Drap) also fits,

For a list of German military paint colors since 1908 and a cross reference to modern hobby paints, go to: http://www.miniatures.de/colour-ral-farben.html

Merci beau coup, mon ami, merci. (that's the limit of my french ). the shade is what I thought.

As usual, You guy are spot-on, jon_a_its,MBR, Gerald many thanx. I can't wait to be photo capable to return the favors!