MRP-A032 DARK YELLOW RAL 7028

The base of late German camouflage

From February 1943 German military vehicles were delivered from the factory in a uniform yellow-brown shade, over which units in the field applied green and brown patches at their own discretion. That system replaced the earlier dark gray finish and became the basis of practically all later schemes. The shade is therefore indispensable for builders of German vehicles.

Paint properties

The paint is water-thinnable and is supplied at a consistency for the airbrush. The dried layer stands up to masking and to the washes and oil techniques that are used on ground vehicles practically every time.

How to build up the camouflage

• Apply the base shade evenly over the whole vehicle
• Spray the patches freehand at low pressure; in the field they were applied roughly
• The shade differed between batches, so a slight deviation is not a mistake
• Modulation with a lightened tone gives large areas depth

In the field the patches were also applied with a brush or a rag, so hard edges are not always a mistake. On a particular vehicle it pays to look at a period photograph, because the differences between units were large.

Additional advice

• Modulation with a lightened tone gives large areas depth
• Apply dust and mud only once the camouflage has dried
• Suggest scuffed places with a dark brown, not with silver

On vehicles from the end of the war it often happened that the crew applied the patches in the field and without templates. Irregular edges and varying density of the patches are therefore not a mistake but a documented state that gives a model character.