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Dark Yellow and Dessert Yellow
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Posted: Friday, August 08, 2003 - 10:53 PM UTC
I am about to paint a model with this two paints. Question is, both colors look exactly the same at a distance. Should I darken dark yellow so it would be more obvious so both colors differ a little more at a distance?
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Posted: Saturday, August 09, 2003 - 04:20 AM UTC
Actually the Desert Yellow or Gelbbraun is slightly darker than Dunkelgelb. My question is why are you painting a vehicle with these two colors. They are both basecoats and would not have been used together for exactly the reason you're have trouble. They are the same tone and the hue difference disappears at a short distance. The purpose of a camouflage overpaint is to break up the outline of a vehicle, building, warship, whatever; and if they blend together the overcolor is useless and you do not have camouflage.

PH
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Posted: Saturday, August 09, 2003 - 11:40 PM UTC

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Actually the Desert Yellow or Gelbbraun is slightly darker than Dunkelgelb. My question is why are you painting a vehicle with these two colors. They are both basecoats and would not have been used together for exactly the reason you're have trouble. They are the same tone and the hue difference disappears at a short distance. The purpose of a camouflage overpaint is to break up the outline of a vehicle, building, warship, whatever; and if they blend together the overcolor is useless and you do not have camouflage.

PH


I'm not doing it for camouflage but as a color scheme. I'm doing an anime mecha. The body armor of the mech is dark yellow and the rest is dessert yellow. Sort of doing a dessert scheme.
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Posted: Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 12:01 AM UTC
In that case I would definitely darken one of them to get a little more contrast.
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Posted: Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 12:23 PM UTC
Greg is right. In this case you are not trying for a camo effect but color differentiation. Pick whichever color you want and darken it.

PH
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Posted: Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 05:14 PM UTC
I take a counter-view here... use the dark yellow "as is" and then LIGHTEN the desert yellow with a white or creme... this will give a bit of a faded look so common in the desert, and will give a nice subtle shading affect.... I personally like to lighten center panels, with the darker edges... personal choice I guess.
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Posted: Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 10:54 PM UTC
can dark yellow or dunkelgelb be used as a basecoat for a D-day color scheme for Axis armor???????
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Posted: Friday, August 29, 2003 - 03:20 AM UTC

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can dark yellow or dunkelgelb be used as a basecoat for a D-day color scheme for Axis armor???????


Thats what it was used for, from 1943 till the end of the war.
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Posted: Saturday, August 30, 2003 - 12:31 AM UTC
thanks, I shall try to get that color...how about for the artillery like the PAK or 7.5 mm gun...what color scheme should they be?
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