Ammo by Mig has provided a paint set covering early French armor, and Kevin Brant has a look and tests out the paint.

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I have just bought AMMO MIG sets for modern french colors and Bundeswehr colors. Not yet used them.
I glad to see manufacturers decide to release this type of paint set. It is easier to use right colors.

These dazzle colours that the various armies used in WWI are amazing! Thanks to offerings like these we won't have to take wild guesses at what shade that violet really was, etc.

For those interested, here is the final product after weathering.

How do we know that the manufacturer didn't make 'wild guesses' as to the colours? Do we have any evidence to suggest that one manufacturer of model paint has conveniently managed to obtain information that nobody else has managed to find?

Model paint manufacturers as a whole don't have a great record in this field as the motivation is (perfectly reasonably) to produce a profitable product which lots of us will buy, not to produce the closest match to the original colour. Much the same applies to colour profiles and indeed kits and many other things.

^ What he said.

I don't have any proof either way. As most images from that time period are black and white, we can only go with what we find on the world wide web, books, and yes, color profiles from paint companies. Based on what I have seen the colors are close, and in my opinion acceptable.

The other issue is that due to fading, dust, etc., it is difficult to get the exact color, unless you have and exact paint chip from the time.

I am not sure what else I can say on the subject, other then I am happy with how it turned out and how it looks.

I agree 101% ,and also we have to think about the scale,"the perfect match" to the original colors maybe from a chip can work if you hare restoring the real deal not in a 1/35 scale model,if you paint the "true" Olive Drub on a 1/35 Sherman look too dark....also is a color used 100 years a go nobody can be 100% sure about the shade the existing tank if still have some original pait have the pait faded by the use and age....is like argue about the sex of angels you cant talk about for 100 years and never find the true...for my mumbele opinion in my mother lenguage we call this kind of problems "mental masturbation"...is difficul be sure about IIWW german colors IWW is a dream...my approach is "if looks ok is ok"...my 2 cents