Hey all. Newcomer here. I have referenced this question (including scrolling back through this forum) to no avail. I'm not much of an armor builder but there are several subjects I am highly interested in. The Marder is not one of the, but I won the Italeri kit an a contest raffle recently and liked the look of the little thing so I figured a quick easy, reference free, no laying out hundreds of dollars of after makket metal and resin build would do me good.

To the actual point. The Italeri directions call for overall Sand. Sand looks too light from what I know of German armor. I would have thought a mustard color would be more appropriate such as Tamiya Dark Yellow. I found one article of a guy who built the Tamiya kit and his base color was Gunze Sangyo Dark Yellow with 10% white added and that, in my guesstimation, comes to about the same as sand. Any input would be helpful and much appreciated.

LG Johnson #:-)

Tamiya Dark Yellow is good. Just add some green camo stripes and some good washes and it will turn out very nicely. Bear in mind that there are a lot of color schemes for German armor, so just plane yellow is not your only option.

Welcome! Other base color options are Floquil "Mud" which is a close match to Dunkelgelb. You could also look at the Model Master line for exact matches in both acrylic and enamel.

Thanks, guys! I thought Dunkelgelb was the way to go but I'm just not as experienced in armor as wings and ships. 'Course, as my callsign might indicate, Sci Fi is my favortie area, although lately I am building more planes and tanks than anything.

LG Johnson #:-)

I believe the 10% white added by the modeler you refered to was to achieve the right tone for the scale vehicle he had built.